Students Becoming Addicted to Social Media

I completely agree! People are becoming way too relient on technology. It's a very scary thought that people are slowly losing the ability to have a normal face to face conversation with someone. I personally think it's insane that just because these people didn't have electronic devices for 24 hours, they didn't know what to do. There are plenty of things to do that don't require electornics! Get some friends together and play soccer, baseball, volleyball, or some other sport! Go swimming, go on a walk, go to a park, etc.

I have a cell phone only because my parents need to have a way of getting ahold of me. Half the time I lose the thing! If I'm driving, my phone is either in the seat next to me, or in the cup holder. When I get a text message, majority of the time I ignore it unless it's my parents. If I get a call, I usually ignore it; again, unless it's my parents or my boyfriend. When it's my boyfriend, the conversation is usually 20 seconds at most. It's a simple, "Hey, you should come get me," then our love you, bye. Short, simple, and to the point.

I don't even get on the computer that often unless it's for homework. The only reason I'm on now is because I'm trying to get caught up on my Fastweb emails because when I started, I had 132 of them.

I, too, am 1 out of 2 people I know without a Facebook account. The thing is pointless! All it does is cause drama and it can even cause lower grades because people are more focused on social networking than on doing homework or studying for a test. And most of the statuses are pointless little things like "bought the cutest pair of shoes!" or "lalala!" Really!?!?!? What's the point!?!? The only social networking site account I have ever had my entire life was a MySpace account that I used MAYBE 10 times in 7th grade. I am now a senior in high school. And I couldn't tell you the username or password to save my life!

Interesting. I can't be bothered to get a FB account, so I'm 1 out of 2 people I know without one. Sometimes I get a text while driving, and... I ignore it. Maybe I'll remember to check it later, maybe not. Sometimes someone will send me an IM, and I'll get to it when I get back to the computer.

Yet, I spend a ton of my life on the computer, mostly reading and learning. I probably couldn't give that up. It's not "social media," per se, but is that still a "bad thing?" I've actually learned a lot, from how a battery works to how a toilet functions to how to replace blown capacitors on a motherboard, so I'd say no. But my parents say yes, since I'll spend my time doing that rather than schoolwork or applying to scholarships or whatnot. So I'm not sure.

I think that our generation being so addicted to social media, television, and video games is a little pathetic. Having electronic devices is habit forming, I recently got rid of my Cell Phone i found it to be a black hole that i had to constantly feed my money to. I dont need soial media, I can talk with friends, ride my bike, play my guitar there is so much more out there! I just wish that poeple could pull their noses out of thier electronic devices and have what i have too!

Why does everybody make a big deal about technology. I could so go a day without technology, maybe even a week. We should look at what technology has done to today's generation.

this is stupid. did the people who gave up electronics have other things to do? obviously they are going to feel antsy if they are just sitting there!

I am 18 years old and currently a high school senior soon to attend UCLA, and I'm proud to say that I fall into the small group of teens who is not dependent of or addicted to electronic media. Sure, I have a facebook account and I really like fastweb and yahoo articles, but I don't have the need to use those things every second of the day. I find them interesting and might visit certain sights frequently, but I can go a whole week or more without internet access or access to a cell phone. Quite frankly, it really scares me to know that so many members of the younger generations are getting addicted to technology, so much that it's affecting their social life and their well-being. Teens are becoming more anti-social simply because they'd rather text or check the twiiter feed. Whatever happened to hanging out in person or getting together for a kick back or a trip to the movies? To me, the future is going to be a lot different with all of these upcoming technological advances and it could cause a lot of negative effects along with the positive ones.

When I was in high school, I was on the internet all the time - mainly on deviantart. It was my facebook you could say. But then I realized I was starting to get short tempered, always wanting to check deviantart, worried over what people would say on there, getting sucked into all the drama and becoming a drama queen in some cases, and basically a dA junkie you could say lol. So I just stopped one day. Stopped going to all the sites on the internet asides from my e-mail, and the occasional news page. Honestly, I don't do much with my phone either. And I'm actually a lot happier, less stressed, and I'm actually getting some chores and other things done around home. When others find out I don't have a facebook they're always like "omfg! what!!?? you need one," and trying to explain to them without seeming like a complete retard or psycho that I'm content without it is hard, but I still manage.

this is fuckin scary. im an 18 year old student and i work in a datacenter. accordingly im surrounded by technology all day at work. i understand its pros and cons. im also a developer. does this mean every second of every day im online checking this or that? no. i turn my phone and ipod off during school and work. i only check my email once a day whenim not home. facebook? nice for keepong in touch but not an overwelming compulsion. jesus christ folks. get a fuckinhold of yourselves.