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The Technology's Fault In The Veldt By Ray Radbury

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The Technology's fault In The Veldt, the family of four live in a smart house, and the kids get a ¨nursery,¨ that has VR glass walls that show whatever place you want. When the kids get too addicted to the technology, and their parents take away the nursery because they believe the kids are looking at violent Africa, they throw a temper tantrum. When they call the parents down in to the nursery by yelling for help, they close the door on their parents and lock them in, and the lions eat them, I believe that the tech is to blame or the parents death in The Veldt by Ray Radbury, because the technology was so addicting to children, that they lash out at anyone who takes it from them.According to http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/fcd/teen-technology-addiction, …show more content…

Especially to teenagers and children, because it can affect the growing brain. When kids are addicted to technology, almost nothing can stop them from being mad when they are told to stop using it all together, or to just get off in the moment, they will almost always be rash when dealing with the person who took it away. The kids in the veldt were too addicted which hurt their relationship with their parents, which kind of just withered away as they became more and more addicted. According to http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/, A majority of teens — 71% — report using more than one social network site out of the seven platform options they were asked about. Among the 22% of teens who only use one site, 66% use Facebook, 13% use Google+, 13% use Instagram and 3% use Snapchat. I think that those apps, the main platforms should give a time limit that is reasonable, to those under 13, so that when your brain is growing the most, it doesn't damage the

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