Formal Writing: Why We Should Turn The Volume Down On Our Technology Use Madeline Brown “All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." This was said by the American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and I believe that this quote sums up the glaring issues that technology faces us with. The attempts of teenagers trying to do everything at once have serious negative effects. These include catastrophic physical, social and mental effects, which begin with overuse of technology and continue to affect these teenagers throughout their lives. Since our generation is the first to have this advanced technology, we have no idea what the effects could be from overexposure, we should not be promoting its overuse. Many of the myriad negative effects …show more content…
An underdeveloped individual will always have some judgement passed on them, whether it be in the open or online. Online or ‘cyber’ bullying has become the number one focused-upon issue circulating around teenagers in New Zealand. Bullying online causes severe mental anguish to those it is directed at, and can cause depression, anxiety and stress because anonymous messages can appear at any time with little way to identify the origin and who is sending them. Bullies online have been proved by several psychologists to be less empathetic and lack of empathy in teenagers is another serious issue caused by technology. The amount of violent material available on the internet may cause a person to slowly lose empathy for others, which leads them to become more violent themselves. Violence is an issue that is becoming more frequent in society, and is caused, in part, by a teenager’s access to technology. I believe that the metal effects caused by overexposure to technology are not addressed enough, and that in order to stop these issues we need to look at the source of