With the current increase in the advancement of technology, it has brought a lot of influences on its users. The frequent change in the field of technology has both positive and negative influences on teenagers.
Though, it is widely confirmed that the adverse influences attributed to the technology surpass its positive influences. Firms that produce technological devices are manufacturing new and progressive devices year in and year out. These devices are widely used by teenagers distinguished from the older age since, at their time, these developments had not been introduced.
To most young adults, owning a smartphone is part of them and has taken over their life. This results in various distractions that affect their performance at school and also jeopardize their life since they incline to lose attention when using their phone thus are at risk of encountering accidents.
Also, the technology exposes children to a ton of information on the internet that may facilitate immoral behaviors as well as criminal activities.
Companies that produce fast food use the internet to promote their products to the public, therefore encouraging youths to eat junk food, which endangers them to a lot of health threats. Health-related risks that teenagers experience such as diabetes, heart diseases, and obesity emanates from eating junk food that is publicized on the internet as well as playing internet games that encourage youths to waste most of their time staring at their personal.
This results in insufficient exercises among online game players, therefore, developing weight issues. Also, the adequate information that is on the internet educates its users on the distinct field and provides a footing for research. It improves communication between people irrespective of their geographical locations. This article is
going to provide an elaboration of these influences that teenagers encountered as a result of technology.
Negative impacts
Technology gives an outlet for accessing information about various sorts of things on the internet. Therefore stimulating a lot of recreations that can negatively influence teenagers morally and socially. Illegal gangs utilize the internet to administer their criminal activities among their components. The easy access to technology by the teenagers boost their exposure of being accessories of these gangs since they can be easily persuaded to join the gang with the easy transmission and requirement of easy access to criminal related information on the internet. Also, the internet contributes to access to tapes and images that are related to illegal activities, which again morally corrupts their minds. Access to online video games could facilitate criminal behaviors among youths since they incline to practice what they simulate from the internet to the real world, therefore committing in criminal activities.
Further, teenagers who acquire phones or spend a lot of their time on social networks. Consequently, taking up more of their time that could have been used for doing homework or studying.
Some Failures in schools among teenagers are attributed to the casual texting techniques that teenagers use to convey with each other.
There is prevalence in Health due to the easy access to the wide web that results from the incorporation of progressive capabilities of technological devices to give access to harmful.
Information and advertisements that facilitate unhealthy practices. Corporations that produce fast food use the internet to reach a broader market. The increasing use of technology by teenagers allows them to view these advertisements then getting convinced to go for this food.
Most of these fast food encompasses a lot of cholesterol, that when eaten, results in the proliferation of fats in the body, therefore developing weight problems. This boosts the risk of being fat among teenagers, which then makes them susceptible to heart diseases.
The use of devices takes much of the time of teenagers, which they could have used in doing other beneficial activities and also distracts their attention from their surroundings. This uncovers them to risks such as getting hit by autos since they do not watch where they are going while using their phones.
Positive influences
There are positive influences associate with the substantial use of a device that is furnished with the latest technology. For example, phones are facilitated to access the internet, and other applications that enable users to have access to other significant information can be inaugurated into mobile devices. Therefore, teenagers can use their technological devices to access the internet where they conduct school studies and get other school-related information.
Also, communications between teenagers and the rest of the people in the world are made easier by the developments in technology. For example, teenagers can connect with their families and friends who go to schools that are far from home through internet-based social networks.
In conclusion, technology has a greater influence on its users. Conversely, Youths and teenagers are the ones who are susceptible to the impact of technology on their daily activities.
The overuse of devices can be toxic to teenagers' health, as the more they use devices, the less physical activities they do. Also, when teenagers choose to play on their devices over physical activity, they often bond their activity with mindless snacking and other unhealthy habits