Smartphone : monitor your teens.

Nowadays, it is a common atmosphere to see most of people are engrossed with their smartphone at public area with the various reactions on their faces. If this situation happened twenty years ago, they might be considered to be insane or mental disorder. At that time also, advanced technology can be used only by adults but today everyone can enjoy this ‘miracle’ innovation regardless their social level or age. At a family gathering for example, we can see even they sit together, but everyone is busy with their own gadget.

The smartphone nowadays provides everything for the user. Borderless social interaction, interesting games, sophisticated camera for selfie that enjoyed by every person even a three years old kid knows how to touch this tool. Some people might assume this phenomenon makes lifestyle to be modern and futuristic. As for parents, they feel that this intelligent device could help them from be disturbed by their children, especially most of them bring their works back to home. Thus, to let their children preoccupied with smartphone seems working. Moreover, it is safer for teens to spend their time with smartphone at home rather than allowing them to go outside.

Actually, it is not as simple as people think, but in fact, giving the smartphone to our children leads to make them vulnerable to unexpected threats. The small device is not just a toy, but there are many perpetrators who are smarter and more dangerous than the real world are hiding inside. The young users might be the prey for the sexual abuse, child pornography, financial fraud, human trafficking to name but a few.

In addition, another impact of the current technology using is to make the teens become unethical, low self-esteem and unbehavior. In the digital world, they are free to say or write everything, to use any word, and to treat all people in the same way. These might influence them when socializing in the real world. Not surprisingly, when there is a research shows that the children who spend a lot of time with gadget cannot differentiate between the level of people. As a result, they might speak with older or teacher or parent as well as their friend.

Blaming the technology is not the practical solution as technology has already contributed tremendous benefit to human life. The best solution would be the parent should enhance their knowledge about the impacts of technology since there are a lot of articles can be assessed easily from the internet or other media. However, by far the most important is they must guide and monitor their teens using their smartphone order to make the latest technology to be beneficial instead of harming them.