The Parent Trap How Teenagers Lost Ability To Socialize Analysis

Social media and social networking play important roles in people’s lives. The way of living life from the past generation to the current generation is changing unquestionably. Children are raised up with electronic devices, such as iPods, iPads, smart phones, laptops, tablets, computers, and so on. A student from California State University of Las Angeles, Yzzy Gonalez has written an essay “Technology Taking Over.” She opens her essay talking about her morning routine. Gonzalez says, “I jump in the shower, get dressed for the day (based on what weather.com is telling me to expect)” (50). My morning routine starts similarly. Technology has been important and advantageous in my life. It is true that technology does have some negative impact

We can watch videos on YouTube and google to learn, or know something new. For example, as an English second language student, sometime I have a hard time understanding what the teacher is teaching in the class. Therefore, I look up the topic in YouTube and I watch videos. Youtube has been the tutor source for me. Also, I watched online videos to learn new recipes for cooking. Importantly, technology saves time. In the essay “The Parent Trap: How Teens Lost Ability to socialize” by Clive Tompson”, he talks about it is not teens fault that they are losing face to face conversation or social skills, but it is parents mistake. To support his essay, Thompson has written research fact which had been done by Danah Boyd. Boyd discovered, “is that today’s teens have neither the time nor the freedom to hang out” (56). Students have a hard time managing time for socializing with friends and family face to face due to the busy schedule. Therefore, technology is useful for students. For example, to do academic research academic, now we can use the internet to do research. If there was no development of technology students had to search for the book and read which would take a lot of time, but now students can just type it in a few words and everything else can finished by internet. Why do we need to have face to face conversation when we can deliver same the message by phone call, or by text? We do need to have

To play games with our friends, we do not need to be near them because of technology. Thompson says, “It’s true. As a teenager in the early ’80s I could roam pretty widely withy my friends, as long as we were back by dark. But over the next three decades, the begin reliving a metronomic diet of horrifying but are child-abduction stories, and parents shortened the leash on their kids.” (55). In this modern generation, crimes are increasing. There are many cases we have heard/seem in news about shooting innocent people, shooting at school and so on. Now a days, It is dangers for children/teenage to be out. Therefore, they can play games at home alone or with friends. There are many online games, where we can play and talk through the internet. For example, my brother plays an online soccer game called FIFA, where he can talk and play at the same time. Also, we can do online shopping through internet. There are many online shopping websites, but the most popular ones are eBay and amazon. Most of the time I do online shopping to buy clothes, shoes and so on because buying is less expensive compare to shopping at malls or