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I'd rather give up my phone than my kidney- Boxes and Bullets

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The main idea of this article is the bight and dark sides of social media and how it can affect us in both good and bad ways. The article mainly talks about the difference between what it used to before and how there was way more communication between people and now what has happened, when people barely communicate face to face but now use their phones.

Evidence:
-"Carrier pigeons? Letters? Going round each others' houses on BIKES?". This is how people used to communicate back before and now to see that we are always on our phones and texting instead of talking face to face and communicating without devices. This hsows how much the world has developed but also how much we rely on technology for our happiness.

-"Emily Hooley, 16, recalls a Very Dark Moment: "We went to Wales for a week at half term to revise. There was no mobile, no TV, no broadband. We had to drive into town just to get a signal. It was really hard, knowing people were texting you, writing on your Wall, and you couldn't respond. Loads of my friends said they'd just never do that."
This shows how the teenagers are nowadays, not even being able to spend even a few days without a wifi signal, phone connection or their devices. Back in the older days the biggest fears were death and animals and natural calamities now there are only 3 big fears: no battery, no wifi connection and no signal on our devices.

- "The big plus of texting, instant messaging and social networking is that it allows the crucial identity-establishing behaviour, without the accompanying embarrassment. "That, in turn, allows them to feel secure about their communication, and thus freer in their interpersonal relations." This shows the bright side of texting and using social media is that it helps you discover yourself and it also helps you become more confident and grow out of the shell that you have been hiding in for years. It allows kids to establish their identities in a way without the embarrassment of doing it face to face with others.

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"Messages, photos, and “likes” appear on no set schedule, so we check for them compulsively, never sure when we’ll receive that dopamine-activating prize."
This was something that I found interesting from the article as it really connects to the world today. When I infer deeper I can find out what it means. What I think the author is trying to convey is that there is no certain time that messages, or likes will come and therefore in anticipation of them we stay awake at night, we get into trouble and do many other things just so that we can check a message and receive the pleasure for a very short period if time.

"Kids these days are using too much of this and too much of that and it’s melting their brains."
This statement interests me as it says the kids these days are using too much of this and too much of that , which is melting their brains. This is true as many kids these days are using too much of technology and it may be overriding their time limits. Too much of anything is bad and therefore when kids use too much of technology it is bad and therefore can be conveyed as "melting their brains". However what I think is that many adults think that kids are unproductively using social media and technology, when sometimes it can be used for good things such as gaining confidence. Technology has helped a lot fo people, but even an excess of it can be bad.

Main Idea
I think the main idea from this article- using the points above- is how kids can be using an excess of technology and the impacts of that are not always good. Therefore the author is trying to promote the fact that technology is good, and has helped us in many many areas but even an excess of technology is bad an if we overuse it then we will not be able to have a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Something that I noticed in this article was that the author included his personal experiences which helped make it more interesting and easier to relate and connect to. I think that the main idea oft his article was that technology can be used in a good or bad way and the way that we use it depends on how we want to and on top of using technology we should have a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

Questions
Now that the world is so addicted to using technology, how will we be able to start going back to living healthy and balanced lifestyles?
Parents are giving their kids devices and access to social media at the wrong age, is it the kids fault or the parents fault for misusing the technology?

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6 resolutions every family with Tweens and Teens should make in 2016

Expository notes that I've noticed
What I noticed while reading this article was that it talks about how parents can encourage their kids to limit their electronic device usage and how they have to help us. This article was written from a parents point of view and it was written for parents to implement in their families. The author who published this usually writes about how parents can help their kids decide certain things and about how they can take control of their child's technology usage. She has been writing for common craft media since 2008.

Connections
Some connections that I made within the text would be that I noticed things like the statistics and the way seh writes everything and keeps it in a plan.

"With 8- to 12-year-olds averaging nearly six hours a day on entertainment media and 13- to 18-year-olds racking up a whopping nine hours"
I was quite surprised by this statistic as I knew that teenagers all around the world had become addicted to their phones and social media, but I didn't realise that it had become so bad. I also didn't know that so many younger kids would have gotten influenced by the older kids and I didn't realise that just because older kids did something the younger crowd would copy them and also get addicted to using entertainment and media.

"As with anything, social media has good, bad, and neutral aspects, but kids need parents to help them sort out which is which.
This sentence shows the fact that social media does not only have negative impacts but also good and neutral impacts. Children may not always know how to differentiate them and parents must help them realise which are wrong and right. This sentence also links to another quote which talks about how social media can also have good impacts and how it can help to change the world (Across the world, regular tweens and teens who are tired of online negativity randomly pop up on social media with a positive message to share. ) It shows us that social media can also have a positive message and not necessarily just a  negative message.

"Celebrate kids using social media for good."
This is something that I haven't heard many parents follow as most parents assume that the use of social media is negative and spoils our children's futures giving them nothing to do but just sit on their phones. Social media can also be used to share a positive message which is what I think most parents overlook and decide that since social media involves their kids sitting on their phone or computer, it immediately is bad and should not be done throughout the house. I don't think they realise it can be used to spread a positive message.

Main Idea
The main idea of this article is basically that kids spend a lot of time on their phones and computers checking social media but they don't realise that it can be used for good things and not necessarily just bad things. This article basically tells us 6 different resolutions that we should make to have a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

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I'd Rather Give up my Kidney than my Phone- Boxes and Bullet

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I'd Rather Give up my Kidney than my Phone- Boxes and Bullet

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Main Idea: An Idea which I would consider the most mentioned in this article is how teenagers have changed over the last years, with their deep concern in technology particularly in social media platforms. The ideas that are coming through are that there are many bad things to social media (such as cyberbullying and privacy issues) but also many good things (such as saving memories and easily interacting with others). The article's big main idea is that there is many dark sides to social media and bright sides to social media however the actual face to face conversations have not gone down and we still do value these things.

Backing Evidence:
"I'm the same online and in person. All this is an extension to real life, not a replacement." This quote from a 16 year old girl, showing that social media is NOT THEIR ENTIRE life and it's just another way to communicate.
"Our research shows face-to-face time between teenagers hasn't changed over the past five years. Technology has simply added another layer on top. Yes, you can find studies that suggest online networking can be bad for you. But there are just as many that show the opposite." This quote shows that face to face time has not changed and social media is just an enhancement and it brings people closer.

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An idea that is emerging about access to technology is that many teenagers spend time using technology without fully acknowledging the negative and positive effects of such.

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Boxes and Bullets of Main Ideas- Jan 17th 2017

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Boxes and Bullets of Main Ideas- Jan 17th 2017

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An idea that is emerging about access to technology is that many people spend a lot of time on devices, without fully acknowledging all the consequences of the aforementioned. However this topic is not filled with negative arguments, one of the contrary being that teenagers should be able to make their own decisions to a certain degree.

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6 Resolutions Every Family with Tweens and Teens Should Make in 2017

Expository Notes I've noticed:
I can see that the article was published on common sense media, and this site is trustable and usually focuses on parents and so I can see from this that this article was written for parents to read and I feel like what the author is trying to say is that although parents are not that knowledgable about social media and the internet like kids, it is important to do certain things to help kids go on the right track to have a healthy, balanced lifestyle.

I can also kind of see that the author who published the piece of writing usually writes about entertainment and this text is an expositary text as the text is trying to tell us to do these 6 things to keep your family and kids healthy.

Connections and My thinking
With 8- to 12-year-olds averaging nearly six hours a day on entertainment media and 13- to 18-year-olds racking up a whopping nine hours
Looking at this statistic I was really surprised because I already knew that teenagers spend a lot of time on entertainment media, it's just I didn't expect it to come from the younger crowd as well and this may be a strange comment but I always just expected that teenagers are on their phone and younger ones are outside playing. This stat showed me just how much the world has changed and how the influence of teenagers have even gotten the younger crowd really interested in entertainment media as well.

Celebrate kids using social media for good.
This resolution that I read in the article really stood out to me as I have never heard parents praise children for using social media well. I personally think that social media is used to spread important and good messages but whenever we post something like this, no one rewards us with a simple word of praise. I feel like this was an interesting, new aspect that parents could say to us as then us kids will feel more motivated to posting things that spread positivity and love.

Encourage informal learning.
I don't agree with this resolution as kids usually end up not wanting to do the things that our parents tell us to do or 'encourage' us to do because it is boring. I feel like parents shouldn't really say anything or try and encourage us because we can do this on our own and we don't need our parents telling us to do it. I think that when you are interested in something you naturally learn about that thing so instead of encouraging the straight forward learning aspect, maybe encourage kids to find more passions and hobbies. Kids could possibly find a hobby and research about it, and know everything about it the next day but it has to come out of the kid's interest not just the parent's wanting you to learn something.

Main Idea:
I think the main idea of the article is that a lot of teenagers spend a lot of time on their phones and laptops and they are not neccesarily social, so the article is telling parents 6 things that they should to help control the entertainment media usage and support your kid to a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. I think that it is showing that being on your electronic devices all the time is bad and there should be set guidelines but again it is also showing how social media can be used for good and not just bad.

Questions:
Why do most teenagers engage on social media?
Why do adults not spend as much time on social media as teenagers do?
How do you set ground rules in your house about technology easily?

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Nayoung - Teenagers and technology: 'I'd rather give up my kidney than my phone' 

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Nayoung - Teenagers and technology: 'I'd rather give up my kidney than my phone' 

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/16/teenagers-mobiles-facebook-social-networking

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Arunav - Booting Up Or Powering Down: How E-readers Affect Your Sleep

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Arunav - Booting Up Or Powering Down: How E-readers Affect Your Sleep

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Core Idea
E-readers and other blue-light emitting devices can suppress melatonin (a chemical in one's brain that induces sleep) levels in one's brain; this means that one will be more sleepless if these devices are used before bedtime.This also raises the concern about methods of reading and how they can affect one's health. Furthermore, the author tries and succeeds in making us think carefully about technology and its infiltration in the world.

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Laranya- Teens prefer the printed page to ebooks

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Laranya- Teens prefer the printed page to ebooks

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https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/dec/16/teens-ebooks-ereaders-survey

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Minna- 6 Resolutions Every Family with Tweens and Teens Should Make in 2017

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Minna- 6 Resolutions Every Family with Tweens and Teens Should Make in 2017

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https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/6-resolutions-every-family-with-tweens-and-teens-should-make-in-2016

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Arunav - Banning Teenagers From Social Media Would Be An Attack on Their Human Rights.

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Arunav - Banning Teenagers From Social Media Would Be An Attack on Their Human Rights.

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Although social media may be used as a way to integrate oneself with greater ease in unfamiliar environments and situations, this sort of situation may force oneself to develop skills and qualities
Core Idea
Social media makes it easy to fit in with other people, but the problem is that we lose vital people skills in the process. We lose the ability to actually interact and go past the awkward stage of relationships.

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Group Discussion
What is the author trying to tell me?
Using social media comes with a lot of benefits, but people assume that young students using social media is very bad. There are various advantages and it has connected large communities together. The author to this article is Larry Magid, the CEO of ConnectSafely an organization. Magid wanted the audience know that social media is place to express your thoughts and and share them in large communities. Therefore it is unfair for adults to ban teens from social network, it's violating human rights.
Is it reliable?
This article is reliable because it is written by a person who is related to an organisation, which seems to be a organisation related to socialising.

Personal Article
What is the author trying to tell me?
Teenagers compared to teenagers 10 years ago has changed a lot. Teens, now, are more active with technology for communication. The author provided specific statistics about the teenager's usage of their phones and their social networking accounts. Many teenagers these days prefer the internet to communicate, to define their identity, to community or to impress other people. Experts say that most teenagers use social networking sites it because helps increase their controllability and the convenience that comes with it. Teenagers, themselves, say that it help boosts their confidence behind their computer screens, than face to face communication. In the other hand, with some benefits comes with all the down side to social network. The probability of cyber-bullying has increased leaving the sensible teenagers with deep scars. Also, some say that talking with online messengers has created misunderstanding, making it hard for them to talk to the other person. The author has used statistics, interviews, and facts to tell the audience of both the bright and dark side of today's social networking sites used by teenagers.
Is it reliable?
I think it is reliable because it seems that the website of this article is a online news site. Also, seeing all the author's previous articles, it seems that he writes about political affairs. But this article was written in 2010, so the reporter could have changed it's story category. Additionally, it seems that the author, Jon Henley, used to be a foreign correspondent in the paper's bureau chief.

Goals
-Try not to interrupt each other when talking and discussing about the article
- I will need to finish classwork for the article I chose, and I will continue reading during the weekends till Tuesday.

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Banning Teenagers from Social Media would be a an attack on their human rights-Laranya

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Banning Teenagers from Social Media would be a an attack on their human rights-Laranya

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Group Discussion about expository text
Many people consider social media to be negative for younger kids. They say using social media is bad as younger kids often fake their ages to be on social media sites, but it can also be used for conveying important messages. The main point that he is making is that young kids should not be stopped from using social media, as it is a violation of their human rights.

Something that we noticed was that the author was not a citable source. He is the CEO of ConnectSafely.org but when we searched his name up, he only had 4 people working for his organisation. He also seemed like he was trying to advertise his website in his piece which was to connect safely.

Individual text
The author wants us to understand teens preferred reading paper printed books rather than e books. He also talked about how kids are quite enforced on about what to read by their peers, they are also enforced by books that they have read before. The author's main idea was about how even though in this day and age so many kids are addicted to social media, and technology, they still prefer reading paper back books to ebooks.

This website seems reliable because it statistics and shows that they have interviewed kids about this topic. But the article was written a long time ago and that may not still be true to todays day and age. But the author is Emily Drabble who was the co editor of the Guardian's children books, which makes her quite trustworthy about the topic on books. She is able to understand this topic quite well as she also had experience about this from before.

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Banning Teenagers From Social Media would be an Attack on their Human Rights
Group Discussion about Expository Text:
We can see from the text that the author is trying to say that it is assumed that when teenagers go on social media, "bad" things will happen but this isn't exactly true as social media can be used to spread important messages such as how Malala has advised social media is the easy place to start taking action against injustice  and it is violating human rights to ban social media from teenagers.
However the author is not exactly a citable source because it says that he is the CEO of ConnectSafetly.org but when we searched him up there is only 4 people working for the organisation. The author also just seems like he is advertising his cause which is to connect safely.

Plan for Weekend:
Finish up my individual article and notes as well as keep reading.

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Banning teenagers from social media would be an attack on their human rights- CLASSWORK

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Banning teenagers from social media would be an attack on their human rights- CLASSWORK

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https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/dec/23/banning-teenagers-social-media-europe-regulation-attack-human-rights

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Connections
Although I am not a person into social media, I may infer from my group's opinions on this article that social media and notifications really affect their lifestyle.

'(LinkedIn and Instagram declined requests for comment. Twitter did not reply to multiple queries.)'

This sentence struck me as bizarre, as it shows that companies are willing to withhold information about this sector of their software development, even, one could say, be secretive about the content of their app. This may discourage potential users from using this app, if this is more widely known. Therefore, I would go so far as to say that a big step that we could take upon this knowledge is to spread the information. This knowledge could spread exponentially; people are one of the best communication devices known to mankind. The aforementioned could be a great example of how relatively insignificant people such as us can actively participate in a movement of raising awareness about technology usage. As a matter of fact, this information could be extremely critical to the companies' reputation, making this impact the world as a whole. If action like this is taken by everyone, it could force companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram into making a small sacrifice by revealing such information for the greater cause of retaining their app usage.

'"It was one of those things where there’s a lot of head nods, and then people go back to work."'

This shocked me. I think that it is possible that people do not realise the full impact of this. It may be necessary for the movement to exaggerate the problem extensively to galvanise the public into action. I detected some exaggeration in the article itself, but it is a sad truth that it will be needed to increase this. Furthermore, I would suggest a large-scale advertising campaign to help strengthen Time Well Spent's initiative.

Core Idea
I would say that the pith of this article would be a message of minimising the use of technology. The article was written in a persuasive-narrative essay format. I think that the author wished to raise awareness on a large scale, but not actively support the cause. I think that his/her level of involvement with the cause was admirable, and that we, though young, should strive for a level of involvement similar to the author's. In conclusion, the article outlined the basics of technology addiction, whilst remaining neutral on the topic itself by placing Tristan Harris in the spotlight. This is a skill I wish to acquire.

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Connections

"Elman compares the tech industry to Big Tobacco before the link between cigarettes and cancer was established: keen to give customers more of what they want, yet simultaneously inflicting collateral damage on their lives."

I can really connect to this part. I am not that addicted to SNS with my phone, but I am on my computer 24/7 and it's worse when it's the holiday. Even though I don't use my phone that often, once I check my phone for notifications from SNS it's never-ending.

"Kids these days are using too much of this and too much of that and it’s melting their brains."

This statement was what author said about what adults say to the children. This was interesting to me because I agree with it but also think that it doesn't really make sense. It's true that young students these days are practically addicted to their phones, when you go out to see in MRTs or restaurants people are on their phones. However,  from technology it has become way more convenient to gain information from other countries. It is very interesting because adults said this statement, but it was us humans (adults) who has tried to hack into human psychology to make the user want to use it more.

“It was one of those things where there’s a lot of head nods, and then people go back to work.” Harris told me some colleagues misinterpreted his message, thinking that he was proposing banning people from social media, or that the solution was simply sending fewer notifications."

I don't think that nobody knows that sometimes the development of technology can be have a negative impact, or that sometimes being addicted to social networks can somehow negatively effect you. It is kind of like McDoncald's, people know that it is very bad for your health but people still order fries and hamburger from that place because it's delicious and convenient for people who are busy with their work. Can this concern be solved? What is the first step step to solving this problem?

Main Idea
The author started the article by talking about technology addiction, people having their phones 24/7, basically reflecting the modern world. The introduction made me think about myself with social network and technology. He has shared his own personal experience along with some interviews, which made the article more interesting. It seems that social network site companies try to hook their users, entice the them into being addicted with their apps. It is important that people don't overuse technology, building a health lifestyle even without our phones. In my opinion, Harris wanted to communicate to the audience about how too much internet socialising can negatively impact us. However, I realised that he was saying that using social networks was alright but to a certain limit. With all these technology, people should have a equal and health lifestyle between technology and life away from it.

Questions
Can this concern be solved? What is the first step step to solving this problem?
What is the average amount of time spent on phone SNS applications?
What is the right amount of time that people should spend on their phones?
Why do people deny/ignore the fact that time to much time spent on phones can influence us negatively?

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Connections
"Messages, photos, and “likes” appear on no set schedule, so we check for them compulsively, never sure when we’ll receive that dopamine-activating prize."
This part of the article really connected to me as I don't think I am someone who is on their phone that much, however reading this, I realized that when I do post a picture, I am curious about what comments are written and how many likes I get. This is something which is really bad as after I put something on social media, I should be able to turn off my phone and interact with the surroundings around me.

"This could be achieved by, for example, an inbox that asks how much time we want to dedicate to email, then gently reminds us when we’ve exceeded our quota." This part of the article, opened my eyes to the new possibility of what we could achieve and really made me appreciate the apps that block out other apps. This made me wonder, however if we should be able to have enough control over not checking our phones and our social media platforms.

When he started mentioning snapchat and it's snap streaks, I realized that I never noticed how much time I spend every day making sure that I don't lose my streak and now it was a given that when my friends went on holiday, I would log in for them to do their streaks for them but it is slightly ridiculous and maybe it's something that is very superficial to kind of show how "social" you are or how many friends you have. When in actual fact, it is essentially just a number next to your friend's name and that is all there is to it.

Main Idea

He seemed to mention about how much time we spend on our phones, how most of ours are addicts and how this is our generation, but also how we can fix and although it might require some work, it is important that we're not just relying on our social media platforms for our life and social media is something that now we value as really important but I think what he was trying to convey is that, yes it's alright to have social media. It's just important that you keep your actual relationships and lifestyle balanced and happy as this is way more important than just a simple text message. He also seemed very intrigued about how we can make decisions in our life to block out social media at times and how we could implement that for everyone.

Questions

How much time does an average teenager spend on all their social media platforms?
How can we actively stop ourselves with an easy, simple method that we would actually be bothered to do.