2. Photo credit: Alton (Wikimedia Commons)
“Today's teens have grown up online - and
online increasingly means via a smartphone.”
3. Photo credit: Ragesoss (Wikimedia Commons)
“aged 18 to 29, send on average 109.5
texts a day, or approximately 3,200
messages a month.”
“They receive an additional 113 texts
and check their phones 60 times in a
typical day”
4. Photo credit: PierreSelim (Wikimedia Commons)
Cellphones to teens are “serving more
than just a utilitarian purpose”
5. Photo credit: Bob Jones (Wikimedia Commons)
“Young people are now so addicted to their
mobile phones it feels like they have lost a
limb when they are without them.”
6. “70% of teens actively seek to hide their
online behavior from their parents”
Photo credit: Jemal (flickr)
7. Photo credit: lamdogjunkie (flickr)
Sometimes, the teens would want some
privacies and get away from parents.
8. Photo credit: Marisa Ravn (Wikimedia Commons)
“Many other parents are, obviously, concerned as well
about what their teens are doing online, but also what is
being done to them.”
9. Photo credit: CarbonNYC (flickr)
“how parents should handle technology in
the hands of their teens, especially younger
ones just entering the frenetic world of
social networks and smartphones.”
10. Photo credit: Wetsun (flickr)
Should the parents allow their children to have
the hand on smartphone and set a code of
conduct at the same time?
Or just not at all…
12. Photo credit: e-MagineArt.com (flickr)
“constantly checking for messages is
an addiction which like other drugs
can ruin your personal relationships”
13. Photo credit: UN Photo/Logan Abasi United Nations Development Programme
(Wikimedia Commons)
“A majority of youngsters claim losing
their phone would be "disastrous to their
social lives".”
14. Photo credit: Muffet (flickr)
Parents thinks that “Keep your eyes up. See the
world happening around you. Stare out a
window. Listen to the birds. Take a walk. Talk
to a stranger. Wonder without googling.”
15. Photo credit: heliosphan (flickr)
However, “many parents don't have the know-
how, stomach, time or interest in actively guiding
kids when they first jump into digital life. ”
16. Photo credit: Deborah Austin (flickr)
Some unfortunates may happen if
parents are too strict on the teens…
17. Photo credit: trix0r (flickr)
“two girls, ages 15 and 16, used a prescription sleeping
medication recently to spike the milkshakes of one's parents so
they could log onto the Internet after 10 p.m.”
20. Photo credit: GFDL (Wikimedia Commons)
Not just the teens, we all need to find
the balance between the virtual world
and the real life.
21. Credits
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