Smartphones Affecting Teens

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How young is to young for a smartphone? What affect can smartphones have on children. After examining how young is too young for a iPhone, it is clear that children under the age of 12 do not need smartphones because it can hinder brain development, create a social divide with not enough face to face contact, and it can be a massive distraction from doing kid things like playing outside. Smartphones that young children use can massively hinder brain development according to the New York Times.(Gonchar 2013) Now Nintendo-Documents, Policies, and Privacy Information" states that playing video games under the age of 6 can harm the health of children like their eyesight on the 3ds for example. Which the 3ds is a handheld device that technically …show more content…

Or they constantly check their phone for things like status updates which can happen to children of any age.(Taylor 2013) Kids as young as 5 can spend all day on their phone which can keep kids from getting their homework done. If your on your phone all day who do you talk to in real life your not getting that crucially need social interaction which you need to learn how to talk to people (Kiernan 2017). Smart Devices can create a massive distraction from things like school work. Because who want to do school work when you can be posting to social media like snapchat Facebook etc. This also creates a easy to cheat in environment because most schools can't afford new books so the old books have easily available answer keys (Tlumacki 2015). This amounts to kids spending too much time on devices it becomes an addiction which has been detrimental to the iGen (Kiernan 2017). Now why should kids have cell phones we are in the modern age and the need to know how to use tech has increased greatly. You need to learn how to use it young almost everything in our society uses the internet (Kiernan 2017). You can also have instant contact with your child at all times if they need you an a emergency they can call you those are the best things about a young kid having a phone

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