As technology grows our youth’s attention span decreases. In the article, “I’m With Stupid: How The Internet Is Dumbing Down The Next Generation,” it states that 94% of US teachers confirm that students associate “research” in the form of looking on google, and citing Wikipedia by 75% of the time for their material. Alison Gopnik wrote an article about a book, “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle. She states in the article, They gave her The Device when she was only 2 years old. It sent signals along the optic nerve that swiftly transported her brain to an alternate universe—a captivating other world. By the time she was 7 she would smuggle it into school and engage it secretly under her desk. By 15 the visions of The Device—a girl entering a ballroom, a man dying on the battlefield—seemed more real than her actual adolescent life. She would sit with it, motionless, oblivious to everything around her, for hours on end. Its addictive grip was so great that she often stayed up half the night, unable to put it down.
Reading the words, “She would sit with it, motionless, oblivious to everything around her for hours on end,” in most cases that is the harsh …show more content…
If she was not texting and driving the tow truck driver would still be alive. According to AAA, 46 percent of teens admit to texting and driving, 51 percent admit to talking on the cell phone while driving. A study by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance shows that driving while intoxicated deaths are down, texting while driving has balanced out the decrease. Most teens think they are invincible and nothing bad will happen to them. Whenever a parent confronts their children about it you mostly hear, “But so and so does it, and nothing happened to them.” When teens get asked, “If you were stranded on an Island what is the one thing you would bring with you, or what is one thing you cannot live without.” Most teens would pick a piece of