Teens on Smartphones

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“Today's teens have grown up online - and online increasingly means via a smartphone.”

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“aged 18 to 29, send on average 109.5 texts a day, or approximately 3,200 messages a month.”

“They receive an additional 113 texts and check their phones 60 times in a typical day”

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Cellphones to teens are “serving more than just a utilitarian purpose”

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“Young people are now so addicted to their mobile phones it feels like they have lost a limb when they are without them.”

“70% of teens actively seek to hide their online behavior from their parents”

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Sometimes, the teens would want some privacies and get away from parents.

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“Many other parents are, obviously, concerned as well about what their teens are doing online, but also what is being done to them.”

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“how parents should handle technology in the hands of their teens, especially younger ones just entering the frenetic world of social networks and smartphones.”

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Should the parents allow their children to have the hand on smartphone and set a code of conduct at the same time?

Or just not at all…

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However, the mobile phone addiction is ruining our lives.

“They're also eroding our personal relationships.”

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“constantly checking for messages is an addiction which like other drugs can ruin your personal relationships”

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“A majority of youngsters claim losing their phone would be "disastrous to their social lives".”

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Parents thinks that “Keep your eyes up. See the world happening around you. Stare out a window. Listen to the birds. Take a walk. Talk to a stranger. Wonder without googling.”

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However, “many parents don't have the know-how, stomach, time or interest in actively guiding kids when they first jump into digital life. ”

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Some unfortunates may happen if parents are too strict on the teens…

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“two girls, ages 15 and 16, used a prescription sleeping medication recently to spike the milkshakes of one's parents so they could log onto the Internet after 10 p.m.”

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Maybe we should just go back to the old times…

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What should we do about teens constantly on smartphones?

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Not just the teens, we all need to find the balance between the virtual world and the real life.

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Sources

o http://www.times-gazette.com/ap%20general%20news/2013/01/10/mom-goes-viral-with-son-s-phone-code-of-conduct

o http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9714616/Mobile-phone-addiction-ruining-relationships.html

o http://readwrite.com/2013/04/08/teenagers-smartphones-how-theyre-changing-the-world