Firstly, because childhood is the most important step for children to have great mental health to grow. For example, children using cell phones for long hours rolling the feeds and playing games induce anxiety and difficulties to learn, because there's minds are not prepared to receive mountains of information.

Secondly, using the internet in cell phones in that age has a lot of dangers, further the parents don’t have any control of the content. For example, children could text with strangers, access sensitive content (like porn, accident photos etc) and download viruses.

In addition, children under ten need to move their body to have healthy and social growth. For instance, they need to run and play in the parks, meet friends and, most importantly, need to get little skin hurt playing, because all of these things are important to understand their body and social relationships. 

To sum up, these are my reasons because I believe children under ten do not use cell phones.

By: Matheus

First of all, it should be considered that many people work using electronic devices and because of that, spend many hours a day connected. But when they get home from work, instead of resting their eyes and minds off the screens, they spend even more time on social media or playing online games. I believe this is not healthy, because the body and mind need to rest so that the person has a good quality of life.

Besides, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, students from schools and universities had to adapt to remote classes, taking virtual classes at home. This has further increased the amount of time this group of people spend online each day. Some examples of the consequences caused by excessive use of cell phones and computers are pain in the neck, hands and shoulder, impaired sleep, posture problems and psychological problems such as anxiety and depression.

To summarize, I believe that people should be aware of the dangers of spending a lot of time online, especially when it comes to children and teenagers, because they are growing up and can develop various complications.

By: Julia

Many researchers say that unplugging one day a week has many positive effects, working wonders on your brain and body, for example, making so that you can even be more productive in your everyday tasks, making you more focused, decreasing anxiety and depression – especially in adolescents –, giving you a better night sleep, and overall just benefiting your health.

In addition to all these benefits, taking one day off off screens and spending it with your loved ones, preferably doing activities outdoors, is going to implement your relationships in a very good way, and doing it at a regular basis may give you different opinions on how to connect and demonstrate love.

To sum up, internet and instant messages may make your life easier when it comes to fast reaching someone, but spending one day a week offline has many benefits that need to be taken into consideration when thinking about what quality of life you are looking for you and for your family.

By: Isabella Baccarin.

By: Ricardo

Nowadays, most people's lives are intrinsically online. Job, studies, stream are all in internet. In my opinion, the primarily consequence is that people need to spend more time in this virtual area, not only for choice, but really because they need and get used to it.

Firstly, it is a fact that being online for a great period of time is the newest and basic requirement to get some type of jobs. This happens, I believe, because is more lucrative for the employer to spend less money in space, energy, maintenance and others, as well as having the employee working full time, probably with devices that he bought by himself.

In addition, the newest online apps are made to get the user attached. For this reason, the time that used to be for real rest were substituted for staying online many hours in a row. The consequence is people associate free time with being virtually connected.

Finally, in the present days the average is to stay online all the time. This happens for two main reasons: the work environment is mostly online nowadays, this being a requirement; and the profound way people interact with apps of social media.

Carolina

In these days, people are spending too much time online the Internet has changed our lives over the past few decades. Through internet technology innovation and development, the internet provides a lot of benefits to people's life, doing business online, shopping online, playing video games and so on. 

In addition with social media, people can see what is happening all over the world, searching information, resources they need, communicating with friends or family oversea. Nowadays, internet is closely related to people’s daily life, people can barely live without it. 

However, there are some disagreement as to whether the overall effect of this technology has been positive or negative. For instance, with the popularity of video games, lots of teenagers are addicted into the virtual world,  people should understand that spending time on internet for their daily studying and working are useful and helpful because of its fast pace and powerful searching engine. 

To sum up,  i believe that internet technology contributes to improving work, research, study, and communicating with people who are far away, but we can't stop carrying out our activities outside of social networks and interacting personally with people, especially family and friends.



Ana Flávia Minutti

Firstly, children shouldn't be exposed to too many hours seeing a screen, they have to spend their time doing activities that can help their mental and physical health, because spending too much of their time using electronics can be damaging to their development. One example is, with the pandemic, a lot of children spend most of their time in front of a screen, and we don’t know what will be the long term effects to this generation in the future. 

Many parents give their children cell phones, so they can distract them and make taking care of a child easier, but there are many consequences for this action. The majority of children don’t have the maturity to use a cellphone at a young age, if they use it unsurpevisioned, they can be exposed to inappropriate content, suffer cyberbullying and become addicted to these electronics.  The parents should only give their kids a cellphone after they explain safety measures and when the child is more mature and, before this occur, children should be only given a specific amount  of time in front of a screen with parental supervision.

To conclude, I believe that children under 10 should not be given cell phones. Their parents should pay more attention to them and spend more time with their children, elaborating a lot of activities that can be beneficial to their development and give them cell phones when they are older.

By: Isabela

Now a days, the internet is everywhere and it is in everyone’s lives. Even people who do not have easy access to the internet are affected by it. There is a sense that the internet imprisons our mind connected all the time. However, the point is, life is busy for most urban people and I think internet is not the cause of this overworking or stressful life.

First of all, the internet is a tool humanity has developed with the purpose of short distances, and make things easier and faster. With this net, thousands of informations are available at the same time and staying connected is almost automatic. However, the solution for anxiety is not ban the internet for one day a week because there are more six days to deal. The solution is to deal with the cause of anxiety, not with the accessories. 

The thing here is to ask yourself what causes you fear, dissatisfaction and stress. Maybe, reflect what you are looking for in using the internet a lot. Imagine if you keeped yourself totally disconnected for a day and on that day an emergency would happen or a really good thing, you would not have a choice to choose whether you will respond or not. So, with a conscious use it is possible to choose when, for what and how to use the internet without injuries for the mind. 

In my opinion, an everyday exercise of using internet with balance and awareness is a better way to solve problems such as stress. Because a day a week is just a little part in a routine and life is composed by all days which could not be turned off

By Winni

Firstly, many new informations are posted every second and all this things affect us. This means that if you are in a bad day, and look at the pictures the people posted enjoying the life can make you feel worse. I think if we try to reduce the time we spend looking at instagram we will feel better.

In addition, there are so many apps and new things that we want to be on top of everything all the time, and sometimes we fail to fulfill our responsibilities or postpone it until a simple task becomes stressful. In my opinion, it's important to set aside a day a week to put your smartphone aside and do other activities. I like to disconnect on Sunday so I feel more relaxed about starting a new week.

To sum up, I believe the internet is an amazing thing that helps us in many ways, but the way we use it today can be very harmful. So it's good to take a break from the networks and enjoy offline life.

By: Karine

I think so. These days, the people spend too much time on online them in the past.It’s impossible to live without the internet nowadays, because everything we need to do, they pass through the internet.

If you are a worker, in differents areas, like science, human, exact, agriculture, services, business, law, communication, information or others, the internet is the best way to do the work. Although, if you are a student, you need to spend too much time on line. It’s impossible to study without the internet tools, in order to share informations, ideas and experiences between the teacher end students and do the exercices or searches. Be alert that the news books are on line too.  

In my opinion, the educational area was the most impacted by this technology, mainly during the Corona Virus Pandemic. We had to change our way of life and obviously, it’ll be impossible to return like the past. 

We can’t forget that the internet is occupying a great moment of laser too. To sum up this essay, it’s evident that we are spending too munch time on line these days. And it can be bigger. Take care.

ANGELA GALIZZI VIEIRA GOMIDE