Earlier last month, a number of websites—Wikipedia was the most well-known—shut down for a day to protest proposed federal legislation to crack down on pirated movies and TV shows. This blackout caused me to wonder: what would life be like without the Internet? Quite a thought. Internet has become so central to teenage lives that, [...]
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Life Without the Internet? Tips for Teens on How to Unplug
February 1st, 2012 by Karen Feldscher · No Comments · All Things BodiMojo, Parent Talk, Tech Talk, Teen Talk
Tags: computers·internet·online·Teen Talk·teenagers·time·websites
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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