ARE YOUNG PEOPLE ADDICTED? I agree with Danah Boyd who is the author of “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Network Teens”. I agree with her because they are not obsessed with social media, they are only on it just to keep in touch with their friends. If they really are that addicted you wouldn’t see no teens at the movies or in the store or at the park, instead they would’ve been on their phones instead. The fact that they’ll end up seeing their friends either way the next day at school they really won’t have to worry about being on the phone all the time when they know they’ll see them anyways. My opinion is that it’s dumb how students at school say that their phone is life, but doesn’t mean that it really is. It’s called being sarcastic, but I guess everyone else thinks that there are so attached to it when they aren’t. Secondly, it said in the article that even so, following children on the internet isn’t always good for them. Young people need space with their friends and they need to manage the impressions they’re making on other of …show more content…
I had read in the article that establishing yourself in opposition to your parents is a natural part of growing up and technology is just one of the tools teenagers are using. Young people are trying to achieve work with them to think about what they’re encountering online, helping them to achieve balance between long-term desires. In the other article that I just read was that he had to quit Facebook because he was getting addicted and he was going through some psychological problem because he was on it ALL the time. First of all, he didn’t even sound like he was, secondly, that sounds a little too dramatic. I think that someone just told him that he was too on his phone than doing his work. It’s dumb how the fact that he kept thinking about being addicted and he was going through some psychological addiction, it was all in his