Should teens be timed while being online? The answer is yes. No one imagines their teens being online doing something that is wrong, right? Since it is normal now that a lot of people are always being online, updating Facebook status, talking to strangers and tweeting. How does one know teens aren't bullying someone else or if someone is bullying them. Teens should be limited online time.
To begin with, the use of the internet can cause serious problems due to the fact that teens aren't being supervised by an adult. Nobody never knows what they are actually doing, they could say they are working on homework and they might be doing something that is wrong. According to Stephanie Newman a psychologist, "Most stories about adolescents and the internet underscore the very real dangers of cyberbullies, sexual predators, and online scams that imperial unsuspecting, vulnerable teens argued" (Newman). She explains that spending too much time online can be dangerous for some teens who don’t know how to behave.
Furthermore, teens may use the internet to hide how they feel or even to cyberbully other
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What Newman explains that its easy to find out if one's teens is overusing the internet, by looking their grades also one can ask the teachers if their teen have been using their cellphones lately in class, and the most important by noticing if they aren't involve in clubs, sports, outdoors activities anymore, and if they always want to be alone. therefore the time teens spend online should definitely be control by an