...study that highlights the impact of the Internet on teenage communication. The study, based on responses from students at an Illinois high school, found that some teens might attempt to use the Internet as a way to escape from the real world or avoid personal contact. As a result, the more time they spent using the Internet, the less likely was their desire to see and talk to with family members and friends. Cyberbullying Teens sometimes use the Internet to bully other teens. Sometimes it starts with insulting someone or sharing personal information about another teen on social networking sites in an attempt to embarrass them. It can escalate to stalking and physical violence. A 2010 ABC news report, "Mean Girls: Cyberbullying Blamed for Teen Suicides," called attention to cyberbullying, which means using social media sites and email to harass and ridicule others. The report says that this type of harassment has been responsible for teen suicides. Time and Risks When teens spend many hours per day using the Internet, they reduce the time they have to spend with family and on school work and physical activities. In addition, according to an article written by Kate Fogarty, assistant professor with the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida, a teen who goes online for two or more hours, three or more times a week, faces a higher risk of falling prey to online sexual exploitation. Online Predators Teens are often exposed to pornography and...
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...with Internet access as of fall 2003. See Table 244 at . 83% and 43% Percentage of children ages 3 to 17 using a computer and the Internet, respectively, at school as of fall 2003. 75% The percentage of children ages 3 to 17 accessing the Internet in fall 2003 — whether at home, school or elsewhere — to complete school assignments. This was the most common reason for children to use the Internet. 66% The percentage of children ages 3 to 17 using a computer at home in fall 2003 to complete school assignments. This was the second most common home computer use for children, behind playing games. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/007108.html Teens, Cell Phones and Texting http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages Text Messaging Becomes Centerpiece Communication by Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project April 20, 2010 The mobile phone has become the favored communication hub for the majority of American teens.1 Cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends, with cell calling a close second. Some 75% of 12-17 year-olds now own cell phones, up from 45% in 2004. Those phones have become indispensable tools in teen communication patterns. Fully 72% of all teens2 -- or 88% of teen cell phone users -- are text-messagers. That is a sharp rise from the 51% of teens who...
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...Internet Safety for Teens Nakayla , Paris November.3, 2017 Internet safety Internet safety is one of the most important things to know about. Especially if you are a teen. Here are a few tips and tricks that you should know about the internet and its safety for teens. Main subtopic you have to be focused on is Social media alerts, Teen suicide and cyberbullying, Never trust a Predators, how to be safe on social media. Teen suicide When teens are on the internet some people are getting ridiculously, bullied and this bullying causes teen suicide Hurts people because of a post a judgment of what they feel The teen internet safety edgerly falls in with teen suicide Telling people your...
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...Communication Generation Introduction The Internet is an ever-growing assortment of intricate webs of knowledge that capture all interests a person may have. As time has gone on, the Internet has grown into one of the leading ways to communicate with other people. Whether it is an Instant Message, E-mail, or wall posts, this generation has it all right at their fingertips. This type of technology gives one the chance to publicly share their information about both themselves and their daily lives to other online users and friends all across the world. Though this may sound like a wonderful piece of social technology, a huge number of problems have been linked to the children and teens of this newer generation and the Internet. Having the capability to spend a lot of time around a computer while still feeling social has led children and teens to have a mix of behavioral and communication problems in the real world. Not only that, but the Internet has become an instant catalog of faces and personal information that predators jump at the opportunity to use. Health issues and addictive behaviors are also a problem that is now manifesting itself in grade-schoolers who not only use the Internet as a social device but also as a source of daily entertainment. This new generation is quickly loosing its abilities to communicate and participate in the real world as the ever-growing cyber world continues to hold them captive. Paragraph 1 The Internet Web-based social networking has been...
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... page 1 Prof. Armindo Fontana Eng 099 Summer 2015 The affects of Internet Addiction among teens in the USA Introduction: The articles disscusses the status of addiction of internet among teens in the USA . Teenagers having high risk of abusing prescription drugs. Its disscusses the affects of internet on yeens and some solurions. Moreover ,most teenagers use the internet , cellphones and other electronic devices as their means of communication and expression . Its increasing everyday in the life of teanagers which is not good for their and our future. Summary now a days Internet addiction in teenagers increasing everyday .Tees are ignoring T V ,playing games , and watchin movies . It is a better way to pass and enjoy free time .Internet gaining more priority in teens life then other things like playing games ,talking with others and so more .Teens with talents wants to be famous and social networking sites giving them oppurtunities . There is a huge population on social networking sites ,therefore its easy to get famous by only with a good little post as a video . Some teenagers got ' Internet Gaming Disorder '/in which children play online games for 16 to 18 hours a day . Which affects their health in the maner of eyesight ,mental developement and etc. The good example of this disorder is Andrew...
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...Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Abstract This paper is going to be about how cyberbullying and internet privacy go hand-in-hand with each other. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication, like the internet and social media websites and cell phones, to bully a person, usually sending hurtful or embarrassing messages to them (Helen Cowie, 2013). Many of the articles that are going to be using for this paper talk about the different ways cyberbullying affects teens and young adults and also how internet privacy plays a role in cyberbullying. There is an article from Bob Sullivan (2013) that talks about how internet privacy is a complicated issue and there are criminals who break into websites to steal personal information. Since people can get someone else’s personal information, that makes it easier for a cyberbully to create a fake profile on a social media site, and make fun of and belittle someone else. Keywords: Cyberbullying, electronic communication, Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Traditional face-to-face bullying has been identified as a risk factor for the social and emotional adjustment of perpetrators, targets, and bully victims during childhood and adolescence. Bullies have now found a new way to reach their targets, by cyberbullying. They now can go on the internet and social media websites or use their cell phone. With the bully being able to do this they have the power to reach their targets at any time...
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...Ang Pagsusuri sa Epekto ng Teknolohiya sa Edukasyon, Kalusugan at Pang Araw-araw na Gawain ng mga Kabataang Pilipino na may Edad 13-18 taong gulang. Thesis statement: Mga maganda at di magandang epekto ng paggamit ng teknolohiya sa pamumuhay ng kabataang Pilipino. Nais naming matuklasaan kung gaano binabago ng teknolohiya ang mga kabataan at kung makakatulong ba ito o nakakasira sa kanilang paglaki at pag-uugali. SANGGUNIAN 1. Kiernan, J. T. (2011). Technology, Freedom and the Human Person: Some Teen Insights into Merton and Benedict XVI. Merton Annual, 24244-255 The article offers the author's insights on the implication of technology for human lives. Topics discussed importance of technology for enhancement of communication, risk factors associated with technology used, and the effects of technology on human behavior. Moreover, it provides the outlook of American Catholic writer Thomas Merton and Pope Benedict XVI regarding modernity. 2. Ives, E.A. (2012, October 1). iGeneration: The Social Cognitive Effects of Digital Technology on teenagers. The purpose of this study was to examine and better understand the social cognitive effects of digital technology on teenagers' brains and their socialization processes, as well as to learn best practices with regard to digital technology consumption. An extensive literature review was conducted on the social cognitive effects of digital technology on teenagers and an action research project was carried out gleaning quantitative...
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...1113 7 October 2008 “Whatever Happened to Teen Romance?” Teenagers in the United States after WWII were starting to get married at young ages and also stated dating at younger ages more seriously. Teenagers in present day are not dating as seriously and it is thought to have a large part to do with the internet and cell phones. Benoit Denziet-Lewis, Author of ‘Whatever Happened to Teen Romance” argues that the internet has a large part to do with why there aren’t serious relationships today. Lewis uses effective pathos and ethos but is ineffective in his use of logos in this article. In the 1960’s and 70’s, high school students used to have “rules” they went by. Lewis states they are “rules”-boy calls girl, boy asks girl out, boy drives to girls house, boy talks to girls dad, boy takes girl to movies, boy has her home by eleven(or else)-were viewed as restrictive and old-fashioned, not to mention sexist. Lewis states the rules of dating in his article because he is trying to get his readers to agree with his argument. High school students today are less likely to agree with these so called “rules”. “High school is about keeping your options open. Relationships are about closing them” (Lewis 497). Lewis is appealing to the readers emotions by stating that high school is about keeping your options open and that is how most high school students feel. “Being in a relationship just complicates everything” (Brian 497). Not all teens today want to be in relationships. Lewis’ appeal...
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...MARCH 19, 2012 Teens, Smartphones & Texting Texting volume is up while the frequency of voice calling is down. About one in four teens say they own smartphones. Amanda Lenhart Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet Project Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project 1615 L St., NW – Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 202-419-4500 http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Teens-and-smartphones.aspx Summary of findings The volume of texting among teens has risen from 50 texts a day in 2009 to 60 texts for the median teen text user. Older teens, boys, and blacks are leading the increase. Texting is the dominant daily mode of communication between teens and all those with whom they communicate. The typical American teen is sending and receiving a greater number of texts than in 2009. Overall, 75% of all teens text. Here are the key findings about the role of texting in teens’ lives: The median number of texts (i.e. the midpoint user in our sample) sent on a typical day by teens 12-17 rose from 50 in 2009 to 60 in 2011. Much of this increase occurred among older teens ages 14-17, who went from a median of 60 texts a day to a median of 100 two years later. Boys of all ages also increased their texting volume from a median of 30 texts daily in 2009 to 50 texts in 2011. Black teens showed an increase of a median of 60 texts per day to 80. Older girls remain the most enthusiastic texters, with a median of 100 texts a day in 2011, compared with 50 for boys...
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...There are over 3.2 million of students that are victims of bullying each year. Because of these, approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day to avoid the bullies. Some of these students drop out of school. Some schools don’t even help the victims that are been bullied. Over two-thirds of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying, with high percentage of students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective. I didn’t know that harassment and bullying has been linked to 75 percent of school-shooting incidents. There have been many cases of suicide because of bullying. One of the recent ones was the suicide of Amanda Todd. She committed suicide on October 10, 2012 at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. She was 16 years old when she died. On September 7, 2012, she posted a 9-minute video on YouTube titled My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self-harm, which showed her using flash cards telling her experiences being bullied. The reason she was bullied was because when she was in 7th grade, she used video chat to meet new people over the internet. People she met would always give her complements about her looks. A stranger convinced her to bare her breasts on camera. He later blackmailed her with threats to expose the topless photo to her friends unless she gave a “show”. The photo of her circulated the internet. She moved to different places to start fresh, but the individual would always disguise himself as a student coming...
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...Paper to be presented at Oxford Internet Institute’s “A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society” on September 22, 2011. Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies danah boyd and Alice Marwick Microsoft Research dmb@microsoft.com and amarwick@microsoft.com Waffles, 17, NC1: Every teenager wants privacy. Every single last one of them, whether they tell you or not, wants privacy. Just because an adult thinks they know the person doesn’t mean they know the person. And just because teenagers use internet sites to connect to other people doesn’t mean they don’t care about their privacy. We don’t tell everybody every single thing about our lives. We tell them general information - names, places, what we like to do - but that’s general knowledge. That’s not something you like to keep private-- “Oh, I...
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...the book: It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens. boyd has focused most of her scholarly work on teens and social media. Notably, boyd is also noted by the lack of capitalization in her name intended to both “achieve balance” and take the focus off herself. This element shines through as boyd guides parents, instructors, and similarly involved individuals into the lives of teens using social media. The overarching concern of many adults, boyd proposes, are the “new dangers” that come with the technology. However, she will come to acknowledge that the concerns of the “new dangers” may not be as foreign as adults believe. Teens have always embarked on a journey for privacy and identity. boyd shows that the internet and social networking sites, in general, are mostly another vessel for this coming of age. Finally, the major highlights of this book do not come from boyd herself, but is more so expressed through the commentary of teens that shape this narrative. boyd divided this discussion into eight sections: identity, privacy, addiction, danger, bulling, inequality, literacy, and ended with “searching for a public of their own.” Each chapter was also accompanied by a leading question that was based on the chapter title. The book began with some...
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...believe it is acceptable for parents to use whatever source they feel necessary to protect their children, including but not limited to Spyware to monitor computer use. To further support my views of protecting children on the internet, we will consider family values, current laws and age appropriate monitoring. In my opinion, judgments and views from outside sources should not penetrate the “Family Values” that are usually dictated by the Head of Household. In most cases Family Values are there to deter any risky behavior by minor children. While the Internet allow kids the freedom to make friends, play games and research homework with the click of a button, it can pose a potential danger as online predators, cyber bullies and scam artists share the same freedoms. While there is no easy solution, preventative measures can greatly reduce a child’s chances of becoming a victim. Given the potential dangers of children’s internet usage, see the following suggestions for addressing internet safety in the home. 1. Explain to your children the potential hazards of online sexual solicitation and the risks associated with internet communication with strangers. 2. Teach your child to avoid sending personally identifying information via the internet. Such as a real name, address, school, telephone number, photos or names of family members. 3. Install a firewall, privacy filtration software and an antivirus program. 4. Discourage children from downloading games and...
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...their son/daughter. Their son/daughter won’t learn certain social skills that everyone who was let explore online freely have. That's why it's vital that teenagers are let to use the internet freely. With my personal experience with using social media it has been good. It's taught me some skills that are very key to becoming an adult. One skill is decision making, this important for online and offline activities. While online you have to know if...
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...10/14/2013 English 1301 1. Why do today’s teens feel the need to use social networking sites compared to our parent’s generation? A. Teens today feel like they need to belong to a social networking site in order to fit in at school, and outside of school B. Today’s teens chat through social networking sites when not in school, they might feel the need to use the internet, or a social networking site to talk. 2. Why did my parents not use social networking sites? A. My parents nor most parents from the 70’s had the means to use the internet B. Computers in the 70’s and in earlier decades were hard to come by 3. How many people today use the internet, and social networking sites? A. Statistics show today that 58% of people in America use the internet or other social networking sites. Social Networking Today I feel today’s teen’s think that it is necessary to belong to some form of a social networking site. When I was a teenager I felt that need as well. I felt out of place till I finally got a Myspace my freshman year in high school. 90% percent of today’s teens have used, and do use a social networking site (All Twitter pg. 1). Today’s teens and my generation around early twenty’s either have a Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram account. Teens begin getting these accounts more, and more throughout middle school through their high school years. My parent’s generation did not have access to the internet or even computers, therefore, they couldn’t...
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