Mayamba Salaty

Wilson

English II

Dec 6

Addiction to Technology

Many teens all over the world face a similar problem addiction to technology. It affects

everyone whether you are a kid or an adult, it all starts when you get your first device and you

begin to get very attached to it, you end up using it during class when you are not supposed to,

and you will start staying up late in the middle of the night on a school night. We see this

problem very common within teens. This is a very serious problem and must be addressed

because addiction to technology is really bad it can mess up your life, it can get you bad grades

because instead of doing your work you can be playing video games, or you can damage your

eyes if you should just constantly looking at a screen and that are not even all the bad things that

can happen because of addiction to technology. If we do not do anything about this it will

become a bigger problem than it already is more and more people will be controlled by their

devices they will not know when to put their phones down and do something else, grades will

start dropping, people may even get depression because of it, also may commit suicide. more

and more people will stop going out and having fun and just stay at home 24/7 just playing

games or being on their phones.

Some specific problems are dropping grades, many kids love playing on Xbox and

phones because they love playing on those devices it is hard for them to get off them. some kids
may get an addiction to one game or playing with friends and may stay up all night playing video

games and when he comes to school he is sleeping during class. So we can see that addiction can

be bad for kids it can injure you or your progress in school. That can also lead to dropping grades

because of games and it can lead to your parents taking your devices away from you then the kid

will be wishing he slept and done hi work. Another problem is getting anxiety from an addiction

to mobile devices. Many teens today love gaming very much and they play a lot, and that is

where they get anxiety from the games. The more people play one game they will start caring

about the game a lot, it will make them stress a lot if they might begin to lose and if I know to

game it makes you stress a lot and that is unhealthy how much you stress for one video game.

today in this generation teens take games way too seriously and they put to much work into them

and make them stress too much, which is unhealthy. Another reason why addiction to technology

is bad is information overload, it is when you do too much internet surfing which leads to

decreased productivity at work and fewer interactions with other people. You will always feel

like not doing work because you looked at the internet so much you do not want to do it anymore

and keep on just going on different sites burning yourself out of energy to do anything else.

Another thing you might get from addiction to technology is compulsions it is when you have no

self-control for what you want to do and it goes further when it is on technology, you may even

pick up a gambling addiction online or even something much worse. Something that happens

sometimes when you addicted to the internet is weight gain or loss, this can happen if you are

just at your laptop all day and you are not even eating or you could be just ordering food online

which can cause you to gain weight or lose weight if you do not eat food. Blurred or strained

vision is also very common with addiction to technology, it only happens if you look at a screen
for long periods and when you look at anything that is not a screen your eyes will have to adjust

back to normal which will make your eyes blurry looking at anything else. So many things will

happen if you have an addiction to technology and they are all very bad for teens, so we must try

to solve it as best we can.