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"Without my phone, I wold literally be lost" (76).

this resonated with me because to a certain extent, I know this feeling. When I did my phone fast, it was different because I had a distraction to keep my mind occupied, but in other situations, I can relate to this very strongly. But i feel like this dependence on our phones isn't entirely our faults. The world we live in revolves around technology and staying connected. Our parents were around when mobile phones began to spread. And phones, although more often used for social media and games, provide many benefits. So having a cellphone has become the norm, and pop culture has pushed teens o social media. Movies and tv shows have raised us to believe that we need to upkeep our social medias in order to belong. Yes, I would say most of us have an unhealthy attachment to our phones, but that's not to say we are to blame completely. Nor is it so say that using one's phone a lot is a bad thin. It can provide an avenue of communication for people with social anxiety for example. So to me, it's not all bad.

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Screen activities are linked to more loneliness, and onscreen activities are linked to less loneliness”
This is true because when it gets later at night a lot of us are normally on their phones and it tends to remind us that we are actually pretty lonely and we need something to compensate with.

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"We're more of a technology-based generation. Without my phone I literally would be lost. I have my calendar, I have my email. I've researched different things, I'm always reading about something" (Twenge 76). There's no doubt about it that us "iGens" are one of the most technology based generations in human history. Our entire lives are based around smart phones and portable computers and everything in between so it's no surprise that we depend on them. I can really relate to the statement, "Without my phone I literally would be lost." Myself and others rely so much on Google Maps and other programs that I honestly don't know many road names or directions without them.

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"I would be lost without my phone" (76). I agree with this statement. Phones have become such a large part of our society that even homeless people have them. I realized how big phones are when we had the phone fast and how certain people in the class seriously struggled to get through the 24 hours. Kealey.

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"Time spent with friends in person has been replaced by time spent with friends (and virtual friends) online" (73). I agree with this statement because I spend a lot of my free time on my phone talking to other people. The data from my social media analysis, showed that I mostly use social media on my phone over anything else. On social media, I feel like I do replace talking to my friends face to face with talking to them online, and I have even made internet friends, whose only way of communication is through social media.

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"We're more of a technology base generation. Without my phone I would be lost." (Page 76).
This statement is true for many teens and young adults in modern society. The younger generations have grown up with this technology and it has become a major part of their lives. Without things like smart phones modern day society could not continue to exist as it does today. There would be major changes in day to day life. From scheduling to communication smart phones have become the go to solution.

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"Teens who spend more time on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time on non-screen activities are more likely to be happy" (76). I agree with the fact that it is easier to tell if someone is sad based on their social media and what they do on their phones in order to deal with negative emotions. When you are off your phone, to an extent, it is easier to interact with other people, do activities with other people, and enjoy the wonders of first-hand communication. I don't necessarily think that screen activities show that someone is more likely to be unhappy but I do agree that someone could be depressed because they avoid talking to people face to face and are more centered on personal time (like on screen activities). Based on gathered information, I believe that having closer communication is better in having a healthy mental state and positive emotion.

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"they don't have get-togethers, they just text together, and they can just stay home" It's easier just to stay home and text your friends, no need to arrange a time and place, and then need to find a way to get there. When you test all you need to do is type a message and see if they respond. It may not be healthy, but it's convenient.

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"Just as for happiness, the results are clear: screen activities are linked to more loneliness, and onscreen activities are linked to less loneliness" (Pg 80)
With how much I use social media, I agree with this statement. I do feel lonely mostly because I don't have a lot of face to face conversations, but I have most of my conversations on social media and other apps. Even though I talk to a lot of people through technology, I still feel lonely because I don't have that actual talk in person. There's a difference between talking on social media and talking in person. When you text someone you only get the words that they say. You don't get any emotion or personality from the other person so that leads your mind to create a personality that may or may not be what the other person is meaning. In person you experience what that person is saying through their tone. Just seeing the person you're able to notice their posture or just their body language in general and that really shows you how that person is feeling and thinking.

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"If you were a teen in the 1980s or 1990s, you probably have memories of walking around the mall with your friends, checking out the gear at Sports Authority or the earrings at Claire's and then sitting at the table in the food court. I Gen'ers don't do that as much, either." I agree with this statement, as it is much easier in todays world to just text someone, or FaceTime them then actually going out, and doing something. Kids today are more reluctant to hang out with others then any previous generation, as they don't have to.

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"At school, people are quieter. They're all on their technology ignoring each other." (81) I agree with this because I have personally experienced this happening. When I am with my friends sometimes we are just on our phones not really interacting so much with each other. I don't really thing this is a bad thing because we are still with each other in person and even though it is sometimes our main focus we still chose to be there with each other.

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“An hour a day less spent with friends is an hour a day less spent building social skills, negotiating relationships and navigating emotions. Some parents might see it as an hour a day for more productive activities but as we saw in the previous two chapters the time has not been replaced with homework it’s been replaced with screen time (page 71-73).”  I know this is true because if I’m doing homework I am watching TV or I’m using my phone somehow and if I’m not doing homework then I’m playing video games or watching TV or watching Netflix and not doing something outside with my friends unless I’m at baseball.

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"Priya, the high school freshman we met in chapter 1, says she hasn't been to any parties and doesn't want to. 'What you read in books is, like, oh my God, high school has all these football games and parties, and when you come there, eh, no one really does it.'" I agree with this statements because it seems to me that parties are not very popular with this generation. I have never been to a 'classic high school party, and I rarely even hear about the 'ragers' that are iconic of many high school themed movies. I think this is indicative of the iGen preferring to communicate with friends over the internet or in small groups of friends.

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"Maybe parties aren't for this cautious, career-focused generation. Especially with the declining popularity of alcohol, perhaps iGen'ers are eschewing parties in favor of just hanging out with their friends" (71). I agree with this statement because I would personally prefer to hangout with friends then go to a party and be at risk of hurting myself and making bad decisions.

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“I feel like we don’t party as much. People stay in more often. My generation lost interest in socializing in person” I agree with this a lot because I feel no one really does anything fun anymore which is sad. I love to go out and have fun but it’s so rare these days bc no one does it anymore. We only communicate over the phone and don’t go out and do things in person. I much rather be in person and have fun all together. This is something I wish would change because we need the interactions.

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"We're more of a technology-based generation. Without my phone I would be lost"(76). I agree with this because my phone keeps track of everything in my life and reminds me of the events I have coming up. I used to use a planner but then I kept forgetting about it and then I realized I take my phone everywhere with me so its better to use it as my calendar. My generation does homework on their phones and thats what makes us a technology based generation.

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"The results could not be clearer: teens who spend more time on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy..."

I agree with this finding; I avoid most social media for this very reason. Going on social media makes me unhappy because I usually end up comparing myself to others. I also think people often use social media to be fake (people brag/glorify how great their lives are--especially on Instagram). In other words, going on social media makes me feel like everyone has a better life than I do. This facilitates my own general unhappiness and dissatisfaction with my life.

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"Just as for happiness, the results are clear: screen activities are linked to more loneliness, and onscreen activities are linked to less loneliness" (80). I agree with this because personally, while I'm on social media alone in my room, I feel lonely due to a lack of face-to-face interaction with my friends. Although, I'm constantly talking to my friends through text and Snapchat, there's some value in actually laughing with them and having a conversation with them in person. During my phone fast, I found myself having more meaningful conversations and actually feeling less lonely because both of us were fully invested and able to be genuine.

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“Even when they do see their friends in person, technology, especially texting, allows iGeb to avoid certain social interactions.” I do this a lot to get out of awkward situations like walking past someone I don’t like or am uncomfortable around. This probably makes the whole generation more awkward though because we don’t know how to deal with awkward situations.

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"The results could not be clearer: teens who spend more time on screen activities are most likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time on nonscreen activities are most likely to be happy."

I personally agree with this statement. I realized the more time I spend on one app, the more likely i'll feel "unsatisfied". With the phone fast, even though I was board, I felt a sense of relief or peace with myself. I had no one to compare myself with.

Saying that, I am not against social media; I just need to watch myself next time for the sake of my state of mind.

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"'I've seen my friends with their families-- they don't talk to them.' she says. 'They just say, 'Okay, okay, whatever,' while they're on their phones. They don't pay attention to their family." (Twenge 74). I agree with this statement because I have also seen my friends around their families and some kids that don't even want to hangout with their families because they are so engrossed in their phones or video games. This is a lack of communication and prioritzing their time which is a major downfall from social media.

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"The only parties I went to in high school were birthday parties, and they were almost always supervised or included an adult somewhere" (71). I agree with this statement because it demonstrates the social life that many high schoolers have. In my experience, I have yet to go to an 'authentic' high school party. In this quote, the author discusses how high schoolers go to less parties; which I agree with it. I know many people that only go to birthday parties, including me, that only go to birthday parties.

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"At school, people are quieter. They're all on their technology ignoring each other." (pg. 81) I agree with this because when at school me and my friends tend to be on our phones more often than not. Our phones allow for us to avoid awkward situations making life just generally easier overall. I can't speak for everyone but I believe that we are all cognizant of the importance of putting down our phones. The main problem is that we use our devices as a sort of barrier to protect ourselves.

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"Unless the give up their phones entirely, the bullying continues" (85).
I agree with this because there really is no true escape to what happens online unless it's completely given up. The bullying that occurs can still be carried out even if someone stays off one app. A bully can go through many different sources just to do what they want. Unless it's completely gone, nothing can really be done about the bullying.

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"I've seen my friends with their families-they don't talk to them... They don't pay attention to their family." (74) I agree with this, my sister is always face timing with at least one of her other friends. She would have her ear buds in and zone out the rest of the world. My family and I would often try to interact with her, to ask for her help or hows her day. Instead she laughs and ignores us. Sometimes if we continue to ask she'll say "go away". Every day she stares into her phone and appear as if she were crazy and talking to herself.

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"College students in 2016 spent four fewer hours a week socializing with heir friends and three fewer hours a week partying" (72). I agree with this because people seem to have less motivation to go out and do things and I feel like planning something takes so much work. People are becoming more awkward in person which is frustrating. People are losing face-to-face communication skills which are pretty important.

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"Screen activities are linked to more loneliness" (80). I understand this, because it's pretty inescapable. I don't go on Instagram or Snapchat often, but when I do, everyone is posting about them hanging out with friends or their significant other, or them on vacation, etc., just how great their life is. I can understand how this could affect someone who doesn't quite like how their life is, seeing what could be interpreted as bragged plastered all over social media, reminding that person of how unhappy they are and how others have better lives.

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"This suggests that moderation, not necessarily a complete elimination of electronic devices from teens' lives, is the key" (84). I agree with this because too much screen time seems to be taking a toll on people. After asking my friends about how they felt about the amount of time they spend on their phones and how they felt about it, all of them who said they were on their phones a lot also felt that they were more stressed out and unprepared for what was going to happen in the future. I think less social media would help with this, but excluding it would also not allow society to progress.

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Sorry, it won't let it edit my other one. Anyways, "...help cheer you up online, but you don't really know them, so you can't really have a deep relationship" (Page 73). This is shockingly true and relatable for not only me, but I'm sure most teens my age. We feel like we connect through social media and that we are "friends", but we don't really know who these people are, they could be someone completely different from what they say they are online.

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"teens who spend more time on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time on non screen activities are more likely to be happy" (77). I would have to agree with this statement not due to personal experience but from what I've observed. At my age, all I hear are complaints that someone didn't have enough time to do their homework or didn't have time to go out all because they were too busy wasting time on their phone. Individuals are so worried about keeping their followers updated and also being updated themselves that the important things in life are ignored and now they have to pay the consequences.

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"We're more of a technology based generation. Without my phone I literally would be lost. I have my calendar, I have my email, I've researched different things, I'm always reading something" (76). I really agree with his statement. I keep pretty much everything that I use to organize my life on my phone. I know this because of the time that I spend on my email and calendar. My phone makes it easier to stay in the loop with things that I am part of.

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The author stated that "Teens are Instagramming, Snapchatting, and texting with their friends more, and seeing them in person less," which I find to be agreeable (75). Often enough teens, during the weekdays at least, have friends that are and are not in their classes. After school, however, I've noticed that my friends tend to be text-only. I do not have snapchat and rarely use instagram, but after the school-obligated interaction period I have noticed a steady absence of any face-to-face interaction between friends.

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"...help cheer you up online, but you don't really know them, so you can't really have a deep relationship" (Page 73). This statement is shockingly ture

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"iGen'ersspend less time interacting with their peers face-to-face than any previous generation" I completely agree with this quote because it is happening to my friends and I. I only really hang out with my friends at school in person, and on the weekends, I interact with them through social media. By doing my social media audit, I saw that most of my social media posts or posts that I look at are more personal and have to do with my friends. If I already know what my friends are up to and what they are doing, I don't need to hang out with them in person. Because of this and social media, meeting in person declined.

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"The results could not be clearer: teens who spend more time on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy..." (Page 77). Looking at it from a more recent perspective, this statement is extremely true. During the phone fast, I found myself feeling inclined to go outside and do something, to create, anything to fill my time. I found that day to be more memorable than a lot of the days that go by when I have access to my phone. From a more general position, I can see how my happiness has gone down as I became more dependent on my phone. Back in earlier years, when I didn't have a phone, I was constantly out in the neighborhood hanging out with my friends. Now I see a decline in that aspect of my life, prompting a feeling of dissatisfaction- or unhappiness- in me.

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"At school, people are quieter. They are all on their technology ignoring each other" (page 81). I agree with this quote because whenever I'm eating lunch with my friends at school, most of them are on their phones watching Netflix or just scrolling through social media. Because of this, we don't really talk and we just eat in silence. And in class, to avoid talking to one another, people just go on their phones to make the situation "less" awkward.

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"Without my phone I would literally be lost. I have my calendar, I have my email..." (76).
I agree with this. During my phone fast, I was constantly feeling disconnected with the world and didn't have the ability to check the apps I use everyday. I felt like I had to go out of my way to research things I could easily access on my phone, which was frustrating.

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"I feel like we don't party as much. People stay in more often. My generation lost interest in socializing in person-they don't have physical get-togethers, they just text together , and they can just stay at home." (69) I agree with this statement because personally I enjoy staying at home more and texting my friends rather than going to a social-gathering like a party. When I was on my 24 hour phone fast I felt very lonely because I was unable to contact my friends even though I could've drove to their house to hangout with them.

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" An hour a day or less spend building social skills, negotiating relationships, and navigating emotions" ( page 72). I agree with this because so many people are becoming awkward in person because they are used to being able to hide behind their screens. I have a lot of friends who might be interested in someone but are too scared to talk to people in person because talking on social media feels safer.

" if you grew up in the 1980's or 1990's you probably have memories walking around the mall with your friends" (page 73). The author is stating that today's teens do not do this and yes I agree there was a decline because when I was i middle schools that was a place where people met and hangout on Friday nights and now the mall inst full with teens at night like it was a few years ago.

"I've seen my friends with their families-- they dont talk to them " (page 74). I agree with this statement because i work in a cafe and i commonly see kids sitting on their phones while their parents patiently eat and wait for a conversation with their child, but kids now are more consumed with what is going on in their online world than what is right in front of them in real life.