Advances in technology has given rise to variety of issues.

Discuss how
technology has impacted teenagers of the present generation.
In this era of globalisation, the field of technology has been changing with each
passing day. It is not surprising to see a children get more interested with their
technology product- smartphone which is a ‘trend’ in this hustle and bustle life.
Nowadays, we are seeing children equipped with iPads and cell phones rather than
action figures and storybooks. Thus, how about the teenagers which its around with
curiousity? It is really a miracle that a teenagers are not using technology. According
to a analysis from a article “Technology’s Negative Impact On Teens,” teenagers
spend up 8 hours on electronic devices, which is more than 56 hours a week.
Hence, did technology brings pros or cons impact to the present generation? This
topic had become a hot topic among people from all walks of life.
As we sail through the 21st century, the application of technology is becoming
more and more predominant. It was a undenied facts that technology brings positive
impact to teenagers too. First and foremost, the process of learning in school will be
more interactive and effective with the application of technology as the teenagers
are in the age of 13 untill 19 which is in the learning phase and studies in secondary
school or college. With the help of technology, teenagers essentially have the world
readily available at their fingertips. They can look it up on the internet and get the
answer in a short second. Thus, it can boost up the effectiveness of learning
process. Not only that, interactive in learning process can be exist through the
application of technology. This is because interactive learning process will help to
establish a friendly atmosphere among the students and the teachers. Interactive
learning help boost learner self-reliance and self-assurance as the instructor
encourage students towards working together, enables learners to overcome the
fear of a language barrier, helps mitigate authoritarian teacher rule, keeps everyone
engaged in activity, assists low-achieving students, and has participants make an
active and continual use of the knowledge and experience gained earlier (Klarin,
2000). The examples of interactive method is round tables, multimedia lectures and
practicals, electronic study guides and so on. So, it is obvious that the uses of
technology is benefits to teenagers
Moreover, technology also give positive effect on teenagers in the way of
changes in communication. As we all know, teenagers go to school primarily to
prepare themselves to accept the challenge of enter society. After graduating from
high school, teenagers will step in the era of college or the job force where two
areas in which communication is integral. Hence, technology plays it role by

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enhance the communication in two areas through communication apps such as
Whatapps, Telegram, Wechat, Facebook Messenger and so on. Not only that, a
study show that texting technology has offered a lifeline to shy teenagers who would
otherwise struggle to communicate. In the eyes of society, texting technology often
seen as an anti-social activity, but psychologists give an opinion that it can boost the
confidence of introverted and anxious people. Most of the teenagers like the texting
technology because of its allows them to compose their messages carefully. "The
people who prefer texting tend to be more socially anxious." (Donna Reid,2005).
Therefore, texting technology offering them a way to communicate. Teenagers who
is introvert can use the texting technology to build confidence. Through this study, it
had showed that texting technology is a positive and rapidly growing form of
communication for teenagers with an anxious personality. Different from the eyes of
society, technology brings advantages to teenagers in their social life.
It is an universal law that things have a good side and bad side. Although
technology bring positive impact to teenagers but technology also bring negative
impact to teenagers too. As we all know, teenagers exposed to technology in long
time. Hence, it is a undenied fact that technology harm teenagers too. The longer
time exposed to technology will cause teenagers physical health decreases. This is
due to the reason that the time for physical activity such as jogging, swimming,
hiking and so on is decreasing rapidly. Based on a survey from National Health and
Nutrition Examination showed that 10.4 percent of preschool children and 19.6
percent of children ages 6 through 11 are obese and the technology is the huge
reason why obesity has and is currently increasing. Teenagers rather relying on the
technology and binge eat instead of putting down the technology and going some
physical activity. Not only that, the article “Rapid Increase of Worldwide Laziness as
Global Physical Activity Levels Decline”said that the situation will be worsing. The
researcher using the metabolic equivalent of task (MET) to measure the amount of
energy spent on completing a task. The research had showed that the teenagers
are not up to standard of the MET which is a normal male must reached 10 MET or
above in a week while a normal female must reached 7.6 MET or above in a week.
It had clearly showed that technology has a huge negative impact on the physical
health of teenangers and it’s only supposed to get worse in future.
In addition to this, technology has a huge impact on teenagers as cyberbullying
will occur as teenagers more prefer the ways of communication through social
media instead of face to face. According to a statement from an article “New
National Bullying and Cyber bullying Data,” 34% of students had experienced cyber

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bullying in their lifetime. Not only that, four out of five of the students who were
cyberbullied said mean comments were posted about them online, while 70% said
someone spread rumors about them online. Notably, nearly two-thirds which is 64%
of the students who experienced cyberbullying stated that it really affected their
ability to learn and feel safe at school. Recently, a statistics show that 20% of
children and young people indicate fear of cyber bullies made them reluctant to go
to school. Teenagers prefer communicate through social media as they have low-
confident to communicate through face to face and they don’t see their facial
expressions. Therefore, technology places a huge role in cyberbullying.
In conclusion, technology has a huge impact on our everyday life, but we don’t
realize it. There are clearly both pros and cons impact of technology on teenagers.
In fact, it is vital for teenagers to learn and understand the function and usage of
technology as technology had become part of our life. Teenagers should make good
use of technology in most situation such as information research for academic
purpose or communication purpose. However, technology use must not be
excessive. They must use the technology in a smart way as extreme uses of
technology in teenagers can cause all sorts of problems either socially or physically.
It is a kindly reminder that although the development of technology had indeed bring
convenience to our life and lead us to a progressive society but at the same time it
should not be used all of the time. Teenagers should not be overly dependent on it
and need to learn that sometimes, technology is not the right answer for a situation.

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Donna Reid. (2005). A Research of teenagers texting. University of Nottingham

Klarin, M. V. (2000). Interactive Learning: A Tool For Gaining New Experience.

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