Internet Addiction

Internet Addiction Affecting Children:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMqljINR74 60 Minutes Australia conducted a study on the brain for what affects the internet has on children. Children are beginning to become more agitated and less compliant with their parents if they are not getting enough screen time. They start crying and screaming because they are not satisfied. However, this does stem for the parents. Parents are starting to give their children technology devices while they are working or to keep the children entertained. This is a method that parents think is working to keep their children from being disruptive, but it is doing the opposite. Doctors have done a brain scan on an average child who uses technology regularly to addicted children who use technology too much and the results are shocking. There are changes in the part of the brain with the addicted user that are harming their emotions, decision making, and self control. This same outcome can also come from ...

The importance in internet addiction is that people are becoming addicted to what is happening on the internet and we as a society need to put down our phones and live in real time. Children and young adults are losing time spent with their families because they are too busy looking at social media or talking to their friends through apps. Obesity rates are high in the United States because children do not go outside and play with their friends. They are too busy playing video games or watching television through their mobile devices. It is important to recognize this issue so we as a generation can teach the next generation to look up from their screens and live in the moment.  I am very interested in the aspect of this addiction from young adults and children's perspectives. It is crazy to see infants handed a magazine and touching the pictures like it is a touch screen. Young people’s minds are being corrupted because of a mobile device or a computer screen. We as a society...