By Adam Winograd My mom raised an interesting point while the two of us were driving on the highway the other day. “Why do teenagers love to text so much?” she asked. She thought it made much more sense to just call the person if you wanted to talk to them; talking on the phone [...]
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Too Much Digital Distraction for Teenagers?
December 3rd, 2010 by Karen Feldscher · No Comments · Parent Talk, Tech Talk, Teen Talk
Teenagers are spending so much time jumping from one techno-gizmo to the next—like Facebook, YouTube, iPods, texting, and video games—that all the switching may actually be making teenage brains less able to focus on any one thing for very long. In other words, they are becoming, in a way, “addicted” to the constant change and [...]
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