Name : Gea Aulia Rachmawati

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Using Gadget For Youth Should Be Decrease
Gadget (/adt/) A small mechanical or electronic device or tool,
especially an ingenious or novel one (oxford dictionaries).We are going
older in digital era,of course we know how important gadgets are. It is
impossible to deny, that we are now well and truly in the digital age.
Resistance is futile. We must consider how they have come about.
Consumerism and the modern way of living have demanded that our
gadgets operate in a certain way.There are many reason why needs
gadget for our daily life. A gadget must either make coarse tasks easier,
or provide us with information.That make gadget addition for people
especially for youth who they growth needs lesson about the real life.As
we know gadget give they virtual life.Using Gadget for tennager cause
many bad effect and we have to reduce using gadget.
Gadget

addiction

become

problem

physical

also

emotional

especially for tennager.Tennager get emotional effect where they get

problem with their smartphone for example her smartphone broke or low
battery.They become uncontrollable perhaps bad mood or think that their
world is going to the end.Tennagers have come to point where they can
not live without gadgets. That mindset makes problems for tennager itself.
They become addicted to using gadgets for a long time.This addiction
causes an unhealthy lifestyle.They too busy using social media e.g
Instagram,Pinterest or another interest social media.Demand social media
also give influence for youth.They want to become famous by using social
media.As we know, a lot of actresses become famous because social
media.The instant thinking influence the youth to think in order famous
like Justin Bieber.Youth use long hours to use that social media also can
give effect for their academic performance.The youth will become nervous
if they forget his gadget or it is far from them.They think everything that
teacher will ask can get the answer on their gadget.So they does not

worry if they did not listen well what the teacher teach.The hard question
can answer easy by using Google.The damage not only for the student but
also the teacher because process teaching and learning not effective
enough.
Research proves in 2007 93 % of teens use the internet.The
worrying researh found that 97 per cent of 11 to 16 years old owns a cell
phone,eight percent more than percentage of all people who own one
(Dr.Emma Bond,2009).We have spent long hours using gadget.Physical
terapist warn that long term consequences may be severe.Indian research
found that the youth pain in their pinkie finger which is the weight of
smartphone rests most of the day.Sadia Vanjura,Physical terapist said
number young children with cronic pain upper exterminer is on the rise.
The impact of using gadget is dangerous not only physic but also
physcological.Content of gadget also give point.controlling using content
gadget is theirself because parent can not give more time just for control
the using of sosial media on gadget.Education about advantage and
disadvantage gadget must be give for the children for imagine that not all
thing must you know and have.Gadget and content social media is
combine which is can not independent.And because social media content
is why gadgets were created. Content in gadgets also give point is video
games.video games influence the youth slowly.Video games imagine the
user have super power and can do anything.That damage is provide a
window to another world person who plays video games.The games holds
all the power and decided the fate of all the virtual lives.This contrast to
the real world which is full stress,failure,bullying and conflict.In other
world gadget give freedom which is teens thinks powerfull and confident
in virtual
The Advancement in technology and comunication has resulted in
gadget.Every period new gadget is being introduced. Supporters of
gadgets argue that Social Media also give media chat that chance to easy
when

communicating.The

purpose

is

to

make

people

easy

to

communicate and know what happend in another nation,but the purpose

become not important again instead broke rule communication.People
who addiction enjoy particular activity much time.Gadget has lot of
content which is will decrease the direct conversation.Using gadget make
peolpe antisocial.They become too busy looking at their screen,sometimes
when their friend talk something they just answer oh ya without look their
friend.Gadget give world more fun with lot of virtual.Therefore,The teens
think only needs gadget to their daily life.
Some people argue that gadgets help people to concentrte,
however, most teens use gadget to plays games and for Social
media.Teens having problem concentrate in school and have motor skills
worryingly below their apropriate because spending hours plays games
each day.Educational psychologist say that there were also lower concern
about concentration level in school.Their motor skill become worse.
Sometimes we met case which there is accident that make by teens who
using gadget when drive.They took picture then share in social media and
want to konw about reaction by another user.Most teens do not seem to
explore much beyond that appear when they conduct an online search,
and they do not seem drawn to sites specifically designed for teens. But at
the same time, they often complain that the information they find does
not seem to be directly applicable to their own situation.The user looks
ignore benefit of technology.It is harming a lot specially in teens age
groups.
Technology also give benefit for us.It make us to know fastly.Can
make money easy using social media by advertising.And this era gadget
become important part of people.Things that using uncontroll also give
worse impact,direct or indirectly.Did you ever ask for yourself, am I gadget
addict ?.when your phone far from you,did you ever think your world
going to the end ?,if you ever like that.You have been addiction using
gadget.Gadget more harm than our think.Besides usefull gadget also
gives worse impact.Gadget give some consequences.Gadget give impact
for physical also physcological.Physical can disease if we using gadget

long hour,neck pain become most lamentation.We have our heads down
too much.Physcological impact is the mindset if they can not live without
gadget and thing their world on gadget.The influence gadget also give
point

make

behavior

youth

change.Perhaps

they

become

uncommunicative because using gadget too much.Ignore the society and

depend the internet to searching.They have more faith in the answer from
a machine than People.As youth generation we have to smart to choose
what we need,what we did not need,what we do,what we can not do. We
can not refuse the technology but we can decrease the use of technology.
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