Kids feel ten miles away, yet they are sitting ten feet away. Parents are finding ways to quiet their kids, but they quiet them too long and the phone becomes the parent. Parents are wonderi
Jack Berg
ENGL 1121
Argumentative Essay
Smartphone Shaped Generation
Kids feel ten miles away, yet they are sitting ten feet away. Parents are finding ways to quiet their kids, but they quiet them too long and the phone becomes the parent. Parents are wondering more and more why their kid is being distant and developing mental health problems. Parents never want to blame the object that helped them through parenting. There have been many studies on this and many articles written about whether electronics and smartphones are ruining kids, and I believe Jean M. Twenge wrote it best in “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?” published in The Atlantic.
Jean M.Twenge started a debate between experts whether smartphones were hurting kids or helping them, or they were hurting the parents. Twenge claims in this article that smartphones are hurting this generation by claiming “The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health. These changes have affected young people in every corner of the nation and every household.” (61)
The more Twenge looked into surveying teens, connected the use of smartphones has shaped their generation, Twenge called them “iGen”(59). Twenge took members born between 1995-2012 because they are more common to be growing up with smartphones because they would just be starting school, in high school, or in college at the time Twenge was writing this article and doing her research. Although they are more safe to the outside world, kids are not safe in the inside world of the smartphone. “Rates of teen depression have skyrocketed since 2011. It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades.”(61). Twenge claims many cases can be drawn back to the smartphone. High school seniors were less likely to leave the house compared to 8th graders in 2009.
Twenge was able to point out positive statistics from the smartphone generation. The decline of dating has led to less sex in teens. “The teen birth rate hit an all time low in 2016, down 67% since its modern peak in 1991.”(61) Kids are less likely to drink and smoke because they are less likely to leave their room. Twenge described being independent in the 70’s was roller skating and drinking and smoking. The next generation being independent was driving out of the town and feeling free. Now the smartphone generation’s version of independence is being on their phone at home. The safest physical option of being independent is staying at home on their phone. When used correctly smartphones are the most useful tool for learning, and communicating.
Twenge’s arguments why the smartphone is ruining a generation outweighs the positives. Mental health is a very important part of somebody’s life and having bad mental health can ruin a life. I believe that there needs to be boundaries with the smartphone, with screen time and forcing ourselves to get enough natural vitamins to help our mental health. I believe that smartphones can be a very useful tool but if used incorrectly it can make you hurt yourself. Since it is hard for kids to regulate their screen time by themselves without being taught I feel that the smartphone is ruining a generation of kids.
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