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One of the key parts of this survey centered on questions about how cell owners use their phones in public places — for instance, whether they use their phones to look up information about where they are going or to avoid interacting with other people nearby. It emerged that people use their phones in a host of ways, many of which are clearly for social purposes.

How people use their phones in public

When they are in public places, cellphone owners say they most frequently use their phones for basic social or information-oriented tasks. For instance:

65% say they frequently or occasionally look up information about where they are going or how to get there

70% frequently or occasionally coordinate get-togethers with others

67% frequently or occasionally catch up with family and friends.

Many also report using their phones to pass the time, catch up on other tasks or get information about the people they are planning to see, but these activities are less frequent.

Among the activities we queried, the least common activity was using one’s phone specifically to avoid interacting with others nearby. Most cellphone users say that they rarely or never use their phone to avoid interacting with others, while 23% say they do this at least occasionally.

As a rule, smartphone users are more likely to do these things frequently than other cellphone owners, and younger adults are more likely to do these things frequently than older adults.

A closer examination of each activity follows:

Look up information about where you are going or how to get there

A majority of cellphone owners (65%) say that when they are in public places, they use their cellphone at least occasionally to look up information about where they are going or how to get there. Some 33% of all cellphone owners do this frequently, making it one of the most common activities we queried. Among smartphone owners, roughly eight-in-ten (82%) look up this type of information at least occasionally when in public, with 44% doing so frequently. As with almost all of the cellphone activities we asked about, younger cellphone users are more likely to do this frequently than those in older age groups.

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Teenage Phone Addiction Statistics and Effects

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Teenage Phone Addiction Statistics and Effects

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In our society today, children are almost required to have a smartphone, even at ages as young as 9. I wanted to look into this and find the effects and statistics, because it is similar to how everyone is addicted to the feed in our book Feed.

Research shows that 92% of teens say they go online today, and almost 24% consider themselves to be online "almost constantly.". 94% of teenagers access the internet through their smartphones at least once a day.

Addiction to smartphones can affect your mental health, such as showing signs of anxiety and depression, while there are other physical effects such as decreased brain connectivity, increased likelihood to become addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and increased level of social loneliness.

The brain isn't finished developing until around the age of 25 years old. If these are the horrific consequences, then why are so many teens and children around us addicted and why don't schools educate people more about phone addiction?

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Table of Contents

Effects of Teen Smartphone Addiction

Teens and Social Media Use

Does My Teen Have a Cell Phone Addiction?

Treatment for Teens

Children are learning how to use cell phones and receiving their own at younger ages than ever before. Since teenagers have grown up in an era where cell phone use has been ingrained in them at such a vulnerable age, they are very susceptible to developing an addiction to their smartphones and/or social media.

The human brain isn't finished developing until around the age of 25 years old. ⁶

If a child or teenager suffers from a cell phone addiction, it could have negative implications on brain development.

Research has revealed that there are a few adolescent personality traits associated with Internet addiction, which is closely related to smartphone addiction. These traits include: ⁵

High harm-avoidance.
These individuals tend to be worrisome, fearful, pessimistic, and shy.¹⁷

Altered reward dependence.
The teen becomes dependent on rewards associated with the internet or cell phone as opposed to natural rewards such as spending time with friends and family, getting good grades, or partaking in hobbies.¹⁸

Low self-esteem.

Low cooperation.

Effects of Teen Smartphone Addiction

Smartphone addiction is closely related to Internet addiction, which is considered an impulse-control addiction. Teens who are addicted to the Internet tend to experience the following:

Decreased brain connectivity in parts of the brain that regulate emotions, decision-making, and impulse-control.⁴

An increased likelihood to consume alcohol and use tobacco.¹¹

An increased likelihood to have poor dietary habits.¹¹

Increased levels of social loneliness.¹²

Additionally, addiction to a cell phone could lead to a number of harmful ramifications such as:

Text neck.¹⁴
Neck pain associated with looking down at a cell phone for too long.

Digital eye strain.¹³
Burning and itching of eyes and blurred vision associated with looking at a screen for at least 2 hours.

Car accidents.¹⁵
Research has revealed that texting and driving is just as dangerous as drunk driving.

Teens and Social Media Use

Teenagers utilize many different forms of social media-such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter-which allow them to connect with their peers. While these applications provide the user with the ability to connect with others all around the world and access news and information, they also can lead to compulsive and problematic cell phone use, cyberbullying, sexting, and Facebook depression, a term coined by researchers to define the depression associated with excessive social media use. ⁶

Research has revealed: ⁷

92% of teens say that they go online daily, while 24% consider themselves to be online "almost constantly."

Over half of teenagers go online many times a day.

94% of teenagers access the Internet via their smartphones at least once a day, if not more.

Facebook is the most-commonly visited social media site for teens (71%), followed by Instagram (52%), then Snapchat (44%).

Does My Teen Have a Cell Phone Addiction?

If you suspect that your teenager is suffering from an addiction to his or her smartphone, there are some signs and symptoms to be on the lookout for in your teen:

Anxiety.

Depression.¹⁰

Significant weight change.

Change in diet.

Change in sleep patterns.

Fatigue.

Depressed or irritable mood.

Flat affect or facial expression.

Little interest in activities they once found enjoyable.

Difficulties paying attention.

Withdrawal from social interaction or activities.

Low self-esteem.

Neglecting other activities and is constantly on his or her phone.

Sore neck or headaches.

Experiencing anxiety when without his or her cell phone or service.

Experiencing "phantom vibration syndrome," which means checking his or her phone when it hasn't vibrated or rung.

Using his or her cell phone while driving or crossing the street.

If you are concerned about your adolescent's cell phone addiction, talk to his or her pediatrician about treatment for a smartphone or social media addiction or call the number above to learn more about recovery.
Treatment for Teens

Although cell phone addiction is a relatively new behavioral addiction that isn't formally in the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition (DSM-5) yet, there are a few different rehabilitation centers that specialize in treating teen smartphone addiction, such as:

Restart Center.¹

Outpatient teen treatment.

Individualized assessments.

Counseling with certified staff.

Life coaching to address interpersonal and developmental deficits.

Paradigm Malibu Adolescent Treatment Program.⁸

Puts limitations on use while in treatment.

Individual therapy.

Assesses for co-occurring disorders.

Family Boot Camp.⁹

Treats teens with a cell phone addiction and their parents.

Wilderness expedition.

Guided by therapists and outdoor specialists.

Learn to live without technology.

If you suspect that your teen suffers from an addiction to his or her cellphone, it can be battled. Help your teen regain control of his or her life. Don't hesitate to call 1-888-997-3147 to learn about different rehabilitation options available for him or her.

References

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2. Camp Grounded - Summer Camp for Adults - Digital Detox. (2014). Retrieved November 30, 2015, from http://campgrounded.org/

3. Hong S-B, Zalesky A, Cocchi L, Fornito A, Choi E-J, Kim H-H, et al. (2013) Decreased Functional Brain Connectivity in Adolescents with Internet Addiction. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57831. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057831

4. Kim, H. (2013). Exercise rehabilitation for smartphone addiction. Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation, 9(6), 500-505. doi:10.12965/jer.130080

5. O'keeffe, G., & Clarke-Pearson, K. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families. Pediatrics, 127(4), 800-804.

6. Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015. (2015, April 8). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/

7. Teen Cell Phone Addiction Treatment - Paradigm Malibu. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://paradigmmalibu.com/teen-cell-phone-addiction-treatment/

8. Teen Cell Phone Addiction. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://familybootcamp.org/cell-phone-addiction/

9. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. (5th ed.). (2013). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association.

10. Kim, Y., Park, J., Kim, S., Jung, I., Lim, Y., & Kim, J. (2010). The effects of Internet addiction on the lifestyle and dietary behavior of Korean adolescents. Nutrition Research and Practice Nutr Res Pract, 4(1), 51-51. doi:10.4162/nrp.2010.4.1.51

11. Pontes, H., Griffiths, M., & Patrao, I. (2014). Internet Addiction and Loneliness Among Children and Adolescents in the Education Setting: An Empirical Pilot Study. Aloma, 32(1), 91-98.

12. Digital Eye Strain Report 2015. (2015). Retrieved November 30, 2015, from http://www.thevisioncouncil.org/digital-eye-strain-report-2015

13. Hansraj, K. (2014). Assessment of Stresses in the Cervical Spine Caused by Posture and Position of the Head. (25), 277-279. Retrieved November 30, 2015, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25393825

14. Dangers of Texting Whilst Driving. (2008). Retrieved November 30, 2015, from http://www.trl.co.uk/case-studies/behaviour-dangers-of-texting-whilst-driving/

15. Young Adult Development Project. (2008). Retrieved December 1, 2015, from http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/youngadult/brain.html

16. Cheung, G (Aug 2007). "Stability of the harm avoidance personality trait in late-life depression". Int Psychogeriatr 19(4): 778-80. doi:10.1017/s1041610207005194

17. Han, D., Lee, Y., Yang, K., Kim, E., Lyoo, I., & Renshaw, P. (2007). Dopamine Genes and Reward Dependence in Adolescents with Excessive Internet Video Game Play. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 1(3), 133-138. doi:10.1097/ADM.0b013e31811f465f

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Effects of Teen Smartphone Addiction Teens and Social Media Use Does My Teen Have a Cell Phone Addiction? Treatment for Teens Children are learning how to use cell phones and receiving their own at younger ages than ever before.

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How much does the internet affect youth? 

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By Lorenzo
The article was talking about how social media can affect young people's in the long run. 8% of kids ages 10-15 use social media at least three hours a day. Girls use social media twice as often as boys do. Kids who use social media tend to have more mental health issues than kids who don't use it. There is also a lot of cyberbullying happening on social media. For kids who may get bullied at school, now they get bullied on social media and there is no escape.

i think it connects to the way social media is implanted in everyone's minds in Feed. The people who already have the feed are like the people who use social media all the time in our own world and the people who don't have the feed are the ones in our society who don't use social media. Kids who do have social media their whole life rely on social media and kids who don't use social media do other activities like read and draw.

Why would parents give technology to their children so early if it can be bad for them?

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The majority of young people (56 percent) reported spending up to three hours a day on social media. Only 11 percent of those children suffered mental health problems.

Girls are far more likely than boys to spend excessive amounts of time on social sites. One in ten girls (11 percent) were found to be in the top category for time spent on the websites, compared to only one in twenty (5 percent) of boys.

The report said that social media "may provide an additional way to connect with others and form relationships", they are also potentially "a source of social comparison, cyber bullying and isolation".

This month the new chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) of schools, Chris King, said children at leading independent schools are turning to counselling to help them cope with the pressures of appearing popular on social media

Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Hayley Van Zwanberg, of the Priory Group said: "Children are totally immersed in a virtual world which is damaging both to the way they see themselves and the way they perceive the real world; some young children are finding it hard to unpick reality from fantasy."

Children using social media over 3hrs p/day more likely to report mental ill-health symptoms https://t.co/UbpceE1Btc pic.twitter.com/lTwF0yfJH1
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Dr Van Zwanberg, who works at the Priory's Woodbourne Hospital in Birmingham, said children are too trusting of modern technologies, and do not realise the negative influences the internet can have.

"Children's social skills and abilities to make small talk and actively listen, and develop empathy, are affected," she said.

"They joke and send photos and videos without truly engaging with people, or truly listening to one another - and they send and make statements without seeing the immediate impact of their comments on the other person. At the other end of the conversation, these messages can be misconstrued."

Screen time - including watching television, spending time on the computer and playing video games - has been associated in previous research with higher levels of emotional distress, anxiety and depression.

The report found there was a "clear association" between longer time spent on social websites and the incidence of mental health problems.

The children's well-being study asked children if they belonged to a social website "such as Bebo, Facebook or MySpace" and how many hours they spent chatting or interacting with friends on such sites on a normal school day.

The latest figures in the survey showed that between 2012 and 2013 the number of children spending no time on social networking sites increased compared with 2011 to 2012, from 32 percent to 37 percent.

These figures were compared to a child's "difficulties score" - the official measure for the prevalence of mental health issues in children.

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The report also found being bullied was strongly related to mental ill-health, with children who were bullied frequently four times more likely to suffer mental health problems.

A third of children who were relatively unhappy with their appearance reported mental ill-health, compared to one in 12 of those who were happy with how they looked.

The well-being survey found that for both 10 to 15-year-olds and 16 to 24-year-olds, 80 percent of those asked rated their life satisfaction as high or very high in 2014.

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The Upcar Might Not Be Imaginary For Long

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The Upcar Might Not Be Imaginary For Long

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by Adam House
The resource says that in the year 2020, the ride service Uber believes flying cars will be available to their customers. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has many guidelines that need to be approved before this plan is put into action, but the company seems pretty confident. Uber is attempting to make somewhat of a hybrid between a car and an airplane, not to replace airplanes but to replace cars. This connects to the book Feed because Titus's parents bought him a flying car (Upcar), and he goes car shopping on page 120. We know these cars are hovering cars, not regular cars, not only because the name suggests it but because on page 135 he says "I parked next to the house with the Upcar still levitating" which directly tells us they fly. After reading this article my question is, what can flying cars do for us that cars with wheels can't? Why is it so high priority for cars to be above ground?

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Uber is more than fly-curious about taking ridesharing to the air. The company announced Tuesday that it plans to roll out a network of flying cars in Dallas-Fort Worth and, of course, Dubai by 2020.

If that sounds ambitious, you possess a basic understanding of the challenges involved here. The kind of aircraft Uber envisions shuttling customers through the air-electric, with vertical takeoff and landing capability, and capable of flying 100 miles in just 40 minutes-don't exist yet. Nor does the infrastructure to support them. The FAA, an agency not known for speed, must ensure these aircraft meet all federal safety regulations and figure out where and how they fit into a complex air traffic control system.

Instead of cracking those problems on its own, Uber plans to punt. It hopes to play the role of a catalyst, spurring manufacturers to build the aircraft, the FAA to figure out the regulations, and cities to wave them in. Company CEO Travis Kalanick apparently wants to play the role of Elon Musk, who came up with the idea for hyperloop and is letting everyone else figure out how to make it work. The reward for playing Kalanick's game? Accessing Uber's 55 million monthly active riders in nearly 600 cities worldwide.

And here's the crazy part: Uber could make it happen. "I think 2020 is realistic for a vehicle that is not replacing an airplane but replacing a car," says Richard Pat Anderson, director of the Flight Research Center at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. A purely electric aircraft might remain elusive, but a serial hybrid setup-where the aircraft carries a fuel-burning turbine to keep the juice flowing, much like the Chevrolet Volt -could work.

At its "Uber Elevate" summit Tuesday, the company announced a series of partnerships to start figuring this out. It has joined real estate companies Hillwood Properties in Texas and Dubai Holding in the UAE to identify locations for "vertiports" and get them built. Chargepoint, which operates 34,000 electric vehicle charging spots in North America and Australia, will design, develop, and deploy the infrastructure needed to keep the aircraft going. In a white paper Uber published in October, the company estimated it would need 1,000 aircraft and 83 vertiports, with 12 charging spots apiece, to serve three or four cities.

More importantly, Uber has signed deals with five companies that are developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft: Pentagon-backed Aurora Flight Sciences, electric plane maker Pipistrel, Bell Helicopter, Embraer, and small plane maker Mooney. If they bow out or fail to deliver, others can take their place. Germany's Lilium just proved its funky electric aircraft can fly. China's eHang plans to launch people-carrying drones in Dubai this summer. And Google founder Larry Page just revealed his flying car prototype, though it looks more at home in Skymall than the sky.

As for the cities, no surprise Dubai is interested. The city's general attitude towards tech is, "Looks shiny, we're in!" It wants to equip firefighters with jet packs, and it will be home to one of the first hyperloop tracks. Flying cars clearly fit right in. But it doesn't hold a monopoly on the future. Texas wants in, too.

"This program is revolutionary and future-oriented, which is why Fort Worth is a perfect partner to base the Elevate pilot," Mayor Betsy Price said in an email. Just don't expect the city to be doing much lifting. "The burden to overcoming the various hurdles (FAA, air traffic control ...) will rest mostly on Uber in this exciting pilot."

The players here have one big advantage. In recent months, the FAA has been more open to certifying new technologies,. That's part of its consensus-based standards system, where the private market draws up the rules, and the FAA says yay or nay. "They're trying to accelerate this," says Anderson. But the agency can only move so fast. "Three years is optimistic."

That doesn't mean the runway's clear just yet. Whoever operates these flying cars will need to negotiate already congested airspace. And then there's the economic question: Can you build a novel kind of aircraft and keep it full of paying passengers without going broke?

Whatever the answers, Uber likely sees another benefit to the blue sky thinking: It's a nice way to distract from all the problems it's having on the ground, from its legal fight with Google's Waymo to the latest accusation it keeps tabs on riders who have deleted its app. But hey, if Uber can finally get you that flying car, maybe you'll be ready to forgive and fly.

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Uber is more than fly-curious about taking ridesharing to the air. The company announced Tuesday that it plans to roll out a network of flying cars in Dallas-Fort Worth and, of course, Dubai by 2020. If that sounds ambitious, you possess a basic understanding of the challenges involved here.

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By Raymen
Sex is out the window and  conceptionarium is in.There is now talk about people no longer needing to have sex to reproduce but instead select their DNA of their kid and have their kid born for a low to free cost and with genetic engineering. This video talks about the future of reproduction and how sexy is unnecessary with their new creation artificial wombs.This relates to feed during 114-118 when titus's parents explain to him how he was born.this video Shows the idea of a conceptionarium is closer then we think.This makes me ask when will this become possible?Also is there any experiments going on right now about genetic engineering.

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Are Chip Implants the Payment Method of the Future? 

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In this four-minute podcast clip, Charlie Warzel discusses how he got a tiny microchip embedded into his skin that he can now use as a barcode scanner to pay with instead of a credit card. Warzel got the chip installed into his hand after thinking about the future of money and payments now that we have so much technology like ApplePay and phone apps. When he went to Sweden, where this implant technology is already being used by biohackers, he got the chip installed and programmed. There is still a lot of research and development that needs to happen before this could be a widespread payment method in the future, but this podcast discusses how the future may not be as far off as we think.

This podcast reminds me of Feed because, well, the feed IS essentially a chip implanted in your skin. It also reminds me of the concept of "credit" in the book, and how all of your money would virtually exist through you. It makes sense whey Titus' first thought upon waking up without the feed at the beginning of part II would be "the first thing I felt was no credit" (43) because his credit is where all of his money is. Imagine if we woke up and our wallet was gone!

This podcast makes me wonder: is the feed as far off in the future as we think it is? and, if not, what is Feed, a science fiction text, trying to warn us about the future?

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An employee of internet security company Kaspersky Lab has a microchip implanted in the area between his thumb and the index finger during a Kaspersky Lab press conference on biological, psychological and technological implications of microchip implants ahead of the opening of the 55th IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) electronics trade fair in Berlin on September 3, 2015. - JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images

You've surely noticed, standing in line at the grocery store or pretty much anywhere, that there are an increasing variety of different ways to pay for whatever it is you're buying.

There's cash, but that's so boring. You could swipe, or chip, nowadays. There are also apps. And then at some point in the perhaps not too distant future, just waving your hand in front of a reader, because you've gotten a chip implanted in your hand.

Charlie Warzel did it, a tiny grain-of-rice-sized chip in that fleshy bit between his index finger and his thumb and wrote about it for BuzzFeed. Click on the audio player above to hear about Warzel's experience.

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Are chip implants the payment method of the future?

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You've surely noticed, standing in line at the grocery store or pretty much anywhere, that there are an increasing variety of different ways to pay for whatever it is you're buying. There's cash, but that's so boring. You could swipe, or chip, nowadays. There are also apps.

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By Ms. Sinn
Generation Like is a documentary about the ways that social media impacts our society. The documentary follows corporations and youtube stars, teenagers from all around the U.S. and social media celebrities in order to understand how teens are marketed to on the internet. In addition, the documentary highlights our obsession with "getting likes" and the possible consequences of living our lives so publicly on social media.

This documentary reminds me of Feed because the documentary highlights two key themes: corporate marketing and peer pressure. When Titus and his friends try to win the Coke advertisement contest by saying the word "Coke" a thousand times (pg. 158), it reminded me of in the film when Tyler Oakley (a youtube celebrity) got endorsed by brands, so he would talk about the products on his youtube show to convince his viewers to like the products, too. The documentary also reminded me of the need for peer acceptance, specifically when a group of friends are shown trying to get as many "likes" as possible on their Facebook pictures. Similarly, in Feed, Titus' friends all get lesions, wear Riot Gear, and change their hairstyles in order to be accepted by other people as "cool" (183).

This documentary makes me wonder: what is the relationship between peer acceptance and consumerism?

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Watch full-length episodes of PBS documentary series FRONTLINE for free. Generation Like - FRONTLINE explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media - and how big brands are increasingly co-opting young consumers' digital presences.

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By Besso Frauenheim-Danke
This article is about the March for Science. Sites all over U.S.A. started the protest because of people like Donald Trump who believe that Science is not part of our world. And Donald Trump doesn't think that global warming is real and  that it doesn't have an impact our world. Scientists still have facts or evidence that global warming is active today. The protest is about scientists who are fighting back for science and also for people who support science.
The March for Science protest connects to Feed because on page 125 Violet has dinner with Titus's family. And his dad said, "Do you Know how inefficient trees are, next to an air factory"? Donald Trump and Steve share the same perspective on how science isn't important. Donald Trump doesn't care about the environment and Steve wants an air factory instead of letting nature do it's work.
This article leads in to my question. Why doesn't Donald Trump believe in scientific facts?

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At the main March for Science, demonstrators gathered at Washington's National Mall to hear speakers laud science as the force moving humanity forward, and rail against policymakers they say are ignoring fact and research in areas including climate change.

"Today we have a great many lawmakers -- not just here but around the world -- deliberately ignoring and actively suppressing science," one of the event's speakers, TV host and scientist Bill Nye, told a rain-soaked crowd from a stage.

"Their inclination is misguided and in no one's best interest. Our lives are in every way improved by having clean water, reliable electricity and access to electronic global information."

Besides the Washington march, organizers said more than 600 "satellite" marches were taking place globally in a protest timed to coincide with Earth Day.

'That guy over there' in the White House

The march, whose beginnings reflect the viral birth of the Women's March on Washington, was billed by its organizers as political but nonpartisan.

But many messages were leveled at Trump and his party, which holds majorities in Congress. Scientists have raised alarms over Trump's budget blueprint, which would cut $12.6 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services, including $5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health alone.

One speaker said the administration "tries but fails to silence scientists." Several contrasted rationality and scientific thought to "alternative facts," a phrase that's attracted popular derision since a White House aide uttered it.

With the White House in view, protesters held signs with messages such as "In peer review we trust" and "It's the environment, stupid."

The crowd fended off a steady rain with umbrellas and jackets as event co-host Questlove alluded to Trump.

"That guy over there," the musician and producer said from a stage north of the Washington Monument. "It's been frustrating to watch as certain forces in our society try to squelch science or their refusal to believe in it or propose alternative realities and facts -- alternative facts, whatever that (expletive) is."

Demonstrators marched from the National Mall to Union Square.

Joni Wright, a neurophysiology graduate student at the University of Florida, cited the Trump administration as a reason why she was in the crowd.

"Science is really important, and the current administration is making decisions that are counter to climate change, genetically modified food and vaccinations," Wright, 38, told CNN.

Thousands of people also marched in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. In Chicago, throngs marched from Grant Park to the Field Museum for a science exposition, CNN affiliate WBBM-TV reported.

"Science has always strived to remain nonpolitical, nonpartisan -- and we're still striving for that," Liz Homsey, a co-organizer, told the station. "Every single scientist at this event feels that it is much more pro science than anti anything."

Marches start in Australia

Demonstrators in Australia kicked off the day of protest.

In Sydney, marchers carried banners, many homemade, with slogans such as "Science makes sense," "Science-based policy = stuff that works," and "Climate change is real, clean coal is not."

Another placard displayed the message, "Governments: stop ignoring inconvenient science!"

It wasn't only major cities where scientists and their supporters came out.

Rebecca McElroy, an astrophysics doctoral student at the University of Sydney, tweeted video of a "mini march for science" around the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales.

Demonstrators also turned out in New Zealand cities, including Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch.

New Zealand Green Party co-leader James Shaw tweeted a popular chant from the marchers: "What do we want? Evidence-based science! When do we want it? After peer review!"

Marches were also held in Durban and Cape Town, South Africa, and in Tokyo.

'Broader vision'

Scientists and their supporters were urged to turn out in force in London as well as other marches in France, Ireland, Finland, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.

David Johnson, 35, a doctoral student in London, said he was marching because he felt climate change was being sidelined by the US administration and that science was being demonized.

Another London marcher, 24-year-old student Rachel Denley Bowers, said science was important and that budget cuts affected research.

Roger Morris, professor of molecular neurobiology at King's College London, said: "These marches are brilliant -- a spontaneous, global response led by young scientists empowered by social media, keenly aware of the global challenges that need to be addressed if their world is to have a civilized, sustainable future.

"Insular populist politics, which have temporarily triumphed in the US and UK, need to be balanced by the broader vision of youth."

Katherine Mathieson, chief executive of the British Science Association, said she hoped the marches would be a catalyst for people to think about the role science plays in their lives and a chance for scientists to demonstrate the public benefit of their work.

"Protecting the government's investment in science, particularly when that includes funding for public engagement, is incredibly important," she said. "Science is not just for scientists, and I believe that all of us, whether we work in a lab or not, should have a voice on its future."

Trump's budget proposal, unveiled in March, outlined $54 billion in cuts across government programs to make way for an increase in defense spending.

US scientists said they fear such a plan would have a major impact on research and science-based policy as well as undermine the importance of science in society and limit future innovation.

"It might have been ignited by Trump, but it's not about Trump," march honorary co-chair Lydia Villa-Komaroff ahead of the event. "It's about the importance of science in society and continuing the support for the science community in keeping our edge."

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march for science: crowds join global earth day protests - cnn

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March for Science: Worldwide protests begin

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By: Seamus Hegarty

Young children's access to the internet has substantially increased from 2012 to present time. The average age for a child receiving a smartphone is 10.3 years old. It isn't just smartphones though, their has also been an increase in the use of tablets and laptops in children. In 2012 42% of kids had access to the internet via a tablet or laptop, and in current time that percentage has increased to 64% of kids. This just shows how fast technology is taking over our generation.

The connection I make to the book is how focused young kids now a days are on the internet and how they have such easy access to the internet and it is an addiction in a way. Just like in feed, everyone has access to the feed and it is an addiction. How kids want to just stay on their phones or tablets instead of having social interactions. It is the same in feed. They go to parties but just use the feed just like on page 78 at Quendy's party.

Will the internet change the way the this generation thinks?

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This week I ended up with an advance copy of Influence Central's new report called Kids & Tech: The Evolution of Today's Digital Natives. The report-which is a subsection from a larger, ongoing study of 500 women across the USA-details findings on the way that kids are using technology and reveals several interesting insights. The highlights include:

The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years

Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids' device of choice during car rides. Smartphones trail at 45% (up from 39% in 2012).

64% of kids have access to the Internet via their own laptop or tablet, compared to just 42% in 2012

39% of kids get a social media account at 11.4 years. 11% got a social media account when they were younger than 10.

Additionally, some of Influence Central's research paints a picture of parents who are relaxing a little bit about their kids' access to the internet which is enabled by so many devices.

While 85% accessed the Internet from a room shared with the family in 2012, that number dropped to 76% today, and 24% now have "private" access from their bedrooms (compared to 15% in 2012.)

I had not heard of Influence Central prior to receiving this report, so I reached out with a few questions. Specifically, I asked company CEO/Founder Stacy DeBroff about the fact that when I Google the term "average age a child receives a cell phone" at least one report from 2015 pins the age at 6 or 7 years, not 10 (although there is some speculation out there about the legitimacy of that other report originally conducted by someone called vouchercloud).

In any event, DeBroff responded that while she can't comment on other report findings, their own study was specifically focused on children's smartphone ownership and not just feature phones or kid-specific phones. The question asked in their 70 question survey was actually "if you purchased a smartphone/cellphone for your child, what age was the child."

She continued by saying that she felt like, in the past, mobile phones were merely used by kids to have voice contact with their parents. These days, kids increasingly use them for a host of activities beyond simple contact with parents like games or productivity, enabled by smartphones.

I also inquired why the study participants were only mothers and not also fathers? DeBroff replied that that was in order to maintain consistency with the 2012 report for which this was a follow up. It was not the same, exact 500 women in this new survey, but rather similar sample of women in the same life stage as the previous study.

Some things that remain unclear are whether this new-found smartphone ownership is also tied to independent wireless accounts (e.g. kids have their own phone numbers and data plans) or whether they are just hand-me-down smartphones using Wi-Fi capabilities. The survey question did not go into this level of detail.

Regardless, it makes sense to me that device usage would increase. With many adults getting new smartphones every year, there is surely an inventory of recent, capable smartphones going unused in households.

I also should note that Influence Central is a marketing agency - and their interpretation of the data is that kids' mobile savvy is an important behavior for brands to consider as they think about how to communicate with them both now and in the future. Mobility is a way of life to which they are easily accustomed.

It is somewhat sad to me that my nostalgic memory of childhood-digging in the dirt, riding bikes or playing soccer, unattended, in the street-could be replaced by a portrait of kids who look just like their parents with their noses buried in a smartphone. At the same time, there is no denying that today's kids are more capable than ever and are merely adapting to the tools available to them. To shun these tools also doesn't make much sense.

I suppose it always just comes down to life balance. But as a smartphone junkie myself (and parent of a ten-year-old with a smartphone and data account), I'm not trying to be your spiritual advisor here about parenting dos and don'ts. But the data speaks for itself and it's not going to do any good to ignore it.

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This week I ended up with an advance copy of Influence Central's new report called Kids & Tech: The Evolution of Today's Digital Natives . The report-which is a subsection from a larger, ongoing study of 500 women across the USA-details findings on the way that kids are using technology and reveals several interesting insights.

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By: Riley Bleakmore

In 2011, Brown University, in partnership with some of the most advanced robotics companies, created the most advanced brain controlled robotic arm for it's time. One of the patients, Cathy Hutchinson, who has been paralyzed from her neck down for the last 15 years, using the arm she was able to grasp and drink a bottle of coffee. The arm is far from practical, researchers are still trying to develop more cost effective, nimble and less intrusive on the brain. I think this is a connection in the sense that it proves the possibility, that we very well could control complicated things like computers with our minds. One thing I found interesting in the book on page 47, was Titus's explanation of the time before the feed,  "...they had to use their hands and their eyes." "...like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe." This shows a very easy connection to the feed almost as if the feed is like riding a bike, it sounds difficult but once you get it, it becomes extremely easy. I still wonder, when will this sensing technology break through, will I see something like the feed in my lifetime?

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Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind - by Nature Video

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By Sonya Maier

In 2018, a privately funded aerospace company has announced there plan to fly two people around the moon as a tourist experience. This had only been planned this year, and the participants are likely paying millions of dollars to go on this weeklong trip. They must undergo fitness tests like other astronauts, as well as go through training for it. If the trip is successful it will likely lead to more and more trips to the moon for tourist purposes, they will most likely not be stopping after one trip. This connects to early in the book Feed, when we learned that Titus and his friends took a trip to the moon for spring break, as said in the opening sentence "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." This also relates because as we know these trips would cost a large amount of money, and in feed we find out that Titus is of course rich, where as Violet is not and has been saving for the trip for a year to send her, as said on page 103
"He wanted to come, but it would have been, like a month of his salary. He saved up for a year to send me." (Referring to her dad). Now I'm wondering, will this new space travel lead to later moon explorations that actually land on the moon directly?

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Two thrill seekers are paying SpaceX to make a trip around the moon next year.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Monday afternoon that the space tourists had already placed a significant deposit for the trip. The travelers will undergo fitness tests and begin training later this year.

"Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration," SpaceX said in a blog post.

For takeoff, SpaceX will use the same launch pad near Cape Canaveral, Florida, that was used for the Apollo programs missions. No humans have traveled past low Earth orbit since the final Apollo mission in 1972. (Low-earth orbit is essentially the first rung on the ladder in being to space. It's also where some satellites that circle the Earth reside.)

The company doesn't expect this to be a one-time mission. SpaceX said that other people have expressed strong interest in making the trip. The names of the first two travelers have not been released. They are likely paying millions for the adventure.

For comparison, space tourists have previously paid the Russia government upwards of $20 million for a trip to the International Space Station.NASA has paid the Russians $80 million a seat to send astronauts to the space station. SpaceX has not revealed the price of the roughly week-long trip.

SpaceX is putting forward an aggressive timeline for the mission, which will rely on a rocket and spacecraft that have not flown yet. The Falcon Heavy rocket is expected to make a test flight this summer. And the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will hold the two tourists, will complete a demo mission later this year.

Related: SpaceX launches and lands another rocket

"Next year is going to be a big year for carrying people to the space station and hopefully beyond," Musk said in a conference call with reporters.

CNNMoney (Washington) First published February 27, 2017: 4:44 PM ET

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Monday afternoon that the space tourists had already placed a significant deposit for the trip. The travelers will undergo fitness tests and begin training later this year. "Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration," SpaceX said in a blog post.

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Rezan Ahmed
Many languages are being spoken around the world, but English is the world leading language. This source talks about how small languages that are at risk of extinction. the small languages are endangered because not many people speak it any more and the reason for that is because of globalization and colonization. Globalization of language is when a language is extended worldwide. This connects to feed because in the book reading and writing are not important to people page 65 Titus said "They're languages that were once important but that nobody uses anymore. They haven't been use for a long time, except by historian .They would not be interested in learning languages if everybody have their feeds. Which for us, if there is one language to communicate with, Why do we need many languages?

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Culture and history are reflected in many ways: Clothing, food and architecture are just three common ways to differentiate one culture from another. One of the most potent ways of understanding the culture and history of a country or region is through its language. Unfortunately, many cultures are now under threat and the list of endangered languages is growing day by day.

Endangered languages: what is behind this trend?

In today's globalised world, language usage is changing rapidly. English is the dominant language of the internet. More people now have a working knowledge of English as a second (or third) language than the number of people who consider English their mother tongue.

Up to half of today's living languages will be extinct by the end of the 21 st century

At the same time, more than three billion people - nearly half of the world's current population - speak one of only 20 languages as their mother tongue. While this might be great news for speakers of these 20 languages, what hope is there for the 7,000 other languages that are spoken? Do they have a future or are they condemned to die?

In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half of today's living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21 st century, other than what is preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.
Endangered Languages: Why Do Languages Die?

Indigenous people, now known as First Nations' people, have either lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue

Languages die for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise dominated by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture's mother tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

Numerous examples exist in North America, where indigenous people, now known as First Nations' people, have either lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

In other cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another environment. We can see examples in immigrant communities from New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to preserve if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.
What Are the Consequences of an Endangered Language?
The loss of one more foreign language has consequences much wider than simply losing a vocabulary. Even archived, a dead language may be missing tone, accent, grammar, syntax and context. These verbal traits are often used to reflect a speaker's way of thinking as much as the actual choice of words.

Losing a language also can mean losing crucial knowledge about the linguistic group's history, culture, or even knowledge about their local environment. For example, being able to choose different words for plants or even the earth they grow in also provides scientists, botanists and academics with information that might be lost otherwise if these specific descriptions did not have an equivalent word in a more dominant language.

Losing a language also can mean losing crucial knowledge about the linguistic group's history, culture, or even knowledge about their local environment

Preserving Endangered Languages
Many linguists and academics, who recognise the value of dying languages, are working to preserve them through the use of modern technology. This can include recordings, which can facilitate some of the language's context. This can even include mobile phone applications, which may have particular appeal to younger members of a culture.

Texting in Navajo may elevate you to an elite social status in some adolescent circles. The value of being able to speak a dying language has historical precedent as well - indigenous American Navajo 'code talkers' were never successfully translated by the Japanese during World War II.

In addition to the accelerated use of technology to preserve the last live use of dying languages by native speakers, many dying languages are being re-introduced or re-emphasised by linguistic communities. It is also recognised that children, whose ability to learn a new language has been called 'sponge time', are the future.

Many linguists and academics, who recognise the value of dying languages, are working to preserve them through the use of modern technology

Rather than being made to feel ashamed to speak a minority language, fun learning such as in summer camps and language nests promote fluency in what was once many of these children's true mother tongue. It has also been recognised that many of these children outperform their monolingual peers in an academically mainstream setting as well. These types of efforts continue to grow throughout much of the Western world.
A Word of Caution
But for all of these positive steps, there is also a caution. For example, evidence is also noted in The New Yorker article where China and Russia in particular currently consider minority languages to be a threat to their hegemony and may be repeating some of the same mistakes made by the West, especially in the New World.

Finding a way to allow minority and majority languages to co-exist within a broader modern culture is the ultimate key to preventing further languages from dying ... and losing the valuable knowledge, heritage and emotional link to the past and future of many cultures.

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Endangered Languages: Why are so many languages dying

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By Meybellin Cruz
GMO's are genetically modified organisms. GMO's harm the environment. GM plants are usually changed to be insect resistant, virus resistant,or herbicide tolerant. GMO's can be toxic. Bee's, butterflies, and birds are in dangered by modern agriculture techniques such as GM crops. GMO's can cause less nectar pollination. GMO's are unhealthy, the academy of environment medicine prescribed non-GMO's diets for patients. They cite animal studies showing organ damage, immune system disorders, acceleration agin and infertility. Numerous health problem were increase after GMO's were introduced in 1996. The American percentage of illness jump to 7% to 13% in just nine years it cost food allergies and disorders such as Autism, reproductive disorders,digestive problems, and other are on the rise. This relates to "Feed" because in the book Violet and Titus go to the filet mignon farm and Titus explains how food is made. The evidence is on page 142 were it says " It was a filet mignon farm , All of it, and the tissue spread for miles around the paths where we were walking.  It was like this huge edges of red all around us, with these beautiful marble patterns running through them. They had these tubes, they were bringing the tissue blood, and we could see the blood running around, up and down. It was really interesting. I like to see how things are made, and to understand where they come from." This shows that in the book "Feed" there is a similar thing like GMO's.
Will there be real food in the future???

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Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

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Adna
This New York Times article is about teenage texting problems .It talks about how teenagers are texting more then any form of communication. Problems they have because of this is sleeping. They tend to stay up all night texting . Another big problem is the academic performance . Teens tend to  use there phone in the middle of class because of the addiction and it is effects their education .

This Relates to the book because people have gotten addicted to the feed . They have stopped reading books and writing because they think the feed will do it all for them like how people think they can use phones to search anything up or search up answers without even trying  . In the chapter "Missing the Feed" violet says "that's one of the great things about the feed-that you can be super smart without even working.  I wonder if you would survive with just the knowledge of your phone .

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Does your teenager have a texting problem?

Teenagers use text messaging more than any other mode of communication, so it may be hard to tell. But youngsters who check their phones continually, snap if you interrupt them and are so preoccupied with texting that they skip sleep and don't get their work done may be compulsive texters, a new study says. For girls, compulsive texting is more than just a distraction - it is also associated with lower academic performance.

The study of more than 400 eighth and 11th graders found that many teenage texters had a lot in common with compulsive gamblers, including losing sleep because of texting, problems cutting back on texting and lying to cover up the amount of time they spent texting.

"Compulsivity is more than just the number of texts teens are engaging in," said Kelly M. Lister-Landman, the paper's lead author and an assistant professor of psychology at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pa. "What is their relationship with phone use? Do they feel anxious when it's not around them? When they sit down to eat dinner with their family, do they feel a need to check it? Do they feel compelled to look at it at all times, rather than just answering texts they get?

Over all, girls text compulsively at a far higher rate than boys do. And unlike girls, boys in the study who were compulsive texters were not at risk of doing poorly in school.

The study, published online Oct. 5 in Psychology of Popular Media Culture, is not the first to find a link between excessive social media use and lower grades. A 2014 study found that the more time black and Hispanic teenagers spent on Facebook, the lower their math scores were. Other studies have found that college students who texted while doing homework had lower grades, and students who texted during class took less detailed notes and had poorer recall. An experiment with college students showed that students who abstained from texting during a lecture retained more information and scored higher on a quiz.

Excessive Internet use has also been linked to sleep problems, because students log on late at night and because it interferes with homework, requiring them to stay up later to finish it. Studies have also linked high numbers of daily texts to sleep problems, possibly because teenagers are awakened by messages.

The new study underscores the correlation between compulsive texting and problems in school but does not explain whether texting is a direct cause of poorer school performance or whether another problem like depression or substance abuse is driving both behaviors.

"I don't think texting is causing academic problems - I think it's an attention-span issue," said Kimberly Young, a psychologist who founded the Center for Internet Addiction and has done research on the subject but was not involved in the new study. "If you're constantly checking your phone, how are you going to study for school? I have kids who can't sit through an hourlong lecture without checking their phone."

Texting has become the dominant mode of communication for teenagers, according to figures published in 2012 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That report noted that three-quarters of teenagers own a mobile phone and 63 percent say they text every day, a greater percentage than those who say they talk on the phone, meet face-to-face or email every day. The median number of texts sent by teens is 60 a day, with older girls having a median of 100 text messages a day and boys a median of 50.

The new study on texting looked at several elements of school performance, not just grades, but school engagement or "bonding," as well as students' perceptions of their own academic competence.

The authors administered a questionnaire to 211 eighth-grade students and 192 high school juniors in a semirural town in the Midwest to assess whether they were compulsive texters. The 14-item questionnaire is one Dr. Young had adapted from a pathological gambling scale to identify compulsive Internet use. The authors of the new study further modified it to identify problematic texting.

Questions included: Do you not do your chores to spend more time texting? Do you text longer than you intended? Do you snap, yell or act annoyed if someone bothers you while you are texting? Other items inquire whether teenagers are losing sleep because of texting, if they have tried but have been unable to cut down on their texting, and if they lie to cover up the amount of time spent texting.

Of the 403 students who participated in the study, 47 said they did not text every day. These "nontexters" were excluded from the analysis.

Among the remaining 356 students, girls were far more likely to be compulsive texters. About 12 percent of the girls - one in eight - were compulsive texters, while only about 3 percent of the boys had the problem. Most of the compulsive texters sent more than 100 messages a day.

Even though the girls in the study were more engaged in school and performed better in school over all, compulsive texting was associated with poor academic adjustment for the girls but not for the boys, the researchers said. When the researchers asked compulsive texters and average texters about their grades, 14 percent of girls who were compulsive texters reported that they were C students, compared with 4 percent of the average texters. Boys who texted excessively said they were B students or better.

Dr. Lister-Landman hypothesized that girls' texts may focus more on relationships and be more emotionally laden, causing them anxiety. Studies have shown that communicating by cellphone about problems or negative feelings is more common among young women than among men.

That said, the researchers cautioned that the students' academic performance was self-reported. And over all, they noted, the girls in the study were doing better in school than the boys, compulsive texters or not.

To reduce a student's texting time, concerned parents may want to insist their children turn off their phones or put them away while doing homework, and create screen-free zones in the house, make dinner time phone-free and establish screen-free bedtime routines.
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Compulsive Texting Takes Toll on Teenagers

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Does your teenager have a texting problem? Teenagers use text messaging more than any other mode of communication, so it may be hard to tell. But youngsters who check their phones continually, snap if you interrupt them and are so preoccupied with texting that they skip sleep and don't get their work done may be compulsive texters, a new study says.