DEEP THOUGHTS
Students in Computer Applications 9/10/11 wrote a short response to an article about Internet Addiction . Read what they had to say...
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I personally believe that teenagers spend too much time online. Kid’s age 8 to 18 now spend an average of 11 hours on online browser, which transforms into 75 hours and 15 minutes per week nearly twice as many hours as their parents put into full-time jobs. For average teenagers, spending too much time online could rob them the real world experiences and many result in lower grades, increase their risks for depressions, cut into the time needed for sleep, and others. Now a day, the internet takes up about half the time, for a small percentage of youth the need to be online can become compulsive, uncontrollable, or pathological called internet “addiction”. As parents and guardians, it’s very prominent to understand how to differentiate between normal internet use and aggressive interact use. Signs of compulsive time spent online, aggressive behaviour, and others could be the evidences of internet “addiction”. It may be time to consider what’s best for you and your child.
Harry Suh block: 5
I personally believe that teenagers spend too much time online. Kid’s age 8 to 18 now spend an average of 11 hours on online browser, which transforms into 75 hours and 15 minutes per week nearly twice as many hours as their parents put into full-time jobs. For average teenagers, spending too much time online could rob them the real world experiences and many result in lower grades, increase their risks for depressions, cut into the time needed for sleep, and others. Now a day, the internet takes up about half the time, for a small percentage of youth the need to be online can become compulsive, uncontrollable, or pathological called internet “addiction”. As parents and guardians, it’s very prominent to understand how to differentiate between normal internet use and aggressive interact use. Signs of compulsive time spent online, aggressive behaviour, and others could be the evidences of internet “addiction”. It may be time to consider what’s best for you and your child.
Harry Suh block: 5
