Today’s Children’s and Smartphones
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Today’s Children’s are Not Slaves of their Smartphones
Children have become slaves to their smartphones because it represents the reality of modern times. Mobile gadgets for instance present a leeway to social groups by way of texting, email and social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Whatsapp among others. Search engines such as Google and Siri have been around to spoon feed everyone including children with information at the click of the mouse. To some degree, technology represents cultural transition to the right direction. The internet for instance, has become a tool that integrates not only peoples, but presents a plethora of prospects such as work and study. Many argue that in the present world of technological discovery, children are raised in an environment that is very different from their parents (Perlow, 2013). However, sociological transformations over any given era for various generations are for eternity going to be insightful. The current generation children should be”screenagers”. Regularly it appears that these children are well informed about computers, smart phones and tablets. This makes parents assume that this is a sociological change.
Children use Smartphone to socialize in a manner that parents who grew up before technological developments do not readily understand. However, post Smartphone technology is entirely relationship-based. That is, they do not function or even make sense without basic associations. As such, it is not necessary for parents to worry; children understand what they are doing. They are simply being different in the way they interact (Perlow, 2013). Consequently, as children get smartphone intertwined, perhaps as a mean to an end, in terms of communication and entertainment, overdependence sets in. It is usually an intricate affair to divorce or separate children away from their devices in whatever setting they may be. Such traits, reproduced by their peers and parents alike, can result into the risk of the next generation deficient in necessary social skills. In reality, mobile phones are expected to augment lives; however, the sense of being connected becomes a dominant aspect in the lives of children. With smartphones at their disposal, contemporary children remain the most techno-savvy of any generation of the past, and it demonstrates how they will mature into adults with not only the enormous amount of information at their fingertips, but also the trappings of other devices such tablets and internet networks. While many would agree that the modern generation of children has access to information and technology unmatched in any generation, I hold the view that depicting them as the most advanced is looking at today’s children through rose-colored glasses. The truth is that today’s children would have little to do with themselves if the smart phones were detached from them (Perlow, 2013). To some degree, Smartphones have tentatively weaned children from overindulging in retrogressive social ills towards social progress, because let’s face it; the more informed a society gets in terms of knowledge, the healthier it becomes. So children would be better off hooked to their mobile phones than over-indulge in drugs and alcohol to death. Go for instance, to venues with no Wi-Fi or 3G/4G portals, or where the internet connection prohibits parents from subscribing to the connectivity and you will certainly notice some serious withdrawal panorama like the 1970s methadone. It looks like gazing at the Star Trek: The Next Generation especially when Borg drones get detached from their communication channels to the collective. Arguing that children are slaves to their Smartphone is not right for instance, majority of modern cruise ships have internet access, though it’s prohibitively costly that a good number of families do not pay for. In this case, children are forced to use their Smartphones. Whereas the ship has entertainment choices for teenagers including video-game arcade, a huge water park, among others, most children do not prefer these choices (Perlow, 2013). Actually, without adequate supply of consumable alcohol and if not engaged in other activities, majority of people in their twenties would be bored since they share similar trappings like current teenagers. In addition, even people in their forties love gadgets. They have a number of smartphones compared to what an average person owns. To children this is not interaction. This is cruder as they are not socializing with their friends. To a certain degree children are slaves to their smartphones; therefore parents should protect them, besides teachers, society and law enforcers should help. In many instances, parents are analogous to being law enforcers of their children, they stipulate laws that their children should comply to. However, protection is not equivalent children privacy. Children being a unique case, it is their parents’ responsibility to ensure their safety as far as the use of Smartphone is concerned (Perlow, 2013). Honestly speaking, if they lacked a sufficient stream of disposable alcohol, and if they were not involved in other activities in their particular cabins, most youths in their mid-twenties are highly likely to get bored out of their minds, because of similar trappings of contemporary teen generation that grew up as the Dinosaur generation.