Multitasking: A Word That Describes Us Teens Perfectly “For tasks that are at all complicated, no matter how good you have become at multitasking, you’re still going hits against your performance.”(Hamilton1) Everyday, throughout the world, us teens are finding ourselves under the constant struggle of stress and/or distraction. For teens like me, a huge distraction interferes with my education/learning; multitasking. I’m almost certain you have realized that after reaching the end of a selection you just finished, you find yourself forgetting what you read. Or maybe while doing your homework, you get an email from your teacher that says, “Just to clarify, you may use the headphones with the computer. You MAY NOT use the headphones with a phone.” …show more content…
Our brain doesn’t even become fully developed until age 25! Multitasking causes a kind of brownout in our brains. Basically, this means when we multitask, our brain literally starts shutting down neural connections to important information. For example, when I click on a Facebook notification, my brain starts losing the connections it was using for my Spanish assignment leading my brain to inefficiency. Also, students who get stressed from multitasking do poorly in school generates them into dropping out. Would you want this to be you? Lastly, it appears that multitasking can be detrimental to our health. Multitasking can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure as a result of your emotions getting triggered. Short term memory loss could also be a huge factor of multitasking. While multitasking, you would exhibit a huge weakness in long term memory. This would allow you to suffer by forgetting what you just read, saw, etc. On the other hand, some people believe that multitasking doesn’t even exist. They believe this because apparently it is impossible to literally do two things at one time. It’s simply just your brain going back and forth between two different tasks. This is counterargument wrong because at times we blink and breathe at the exact same