We have Abandoned our Children to the Internet ..
The article speaks about a woman who made a film about a group of teenagers who spent all their time online. She claimed how it had been months since she saw them without their phones. "Nearly every girl I met talked of the social pressure: the demand to be constantly in touch; the problems of "unfriending"; being in the gaze of people they have barely met; the anxieties about their image; and the horror of looking in while being left out"
The article goes on to express the teenagers anger who, in turn felt abandoned by their parents whose own eyes were fixed on their electronic devices. She then compared the children to an alcoholic, asking a young person to put down their Xbox, shut their computer or stop looking at their smartphone is like asking an alcoholic to put down their drink.
- Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage
- Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart.
I personally agree with this story, many people are too obsessed with their mobile phones, they can't do anything without them, so many people have become so dependent on their electronic devices that they can't go a day without using them.
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