First, because we are very connected and have no time for family and friends. Have you ever thought why God sent the virus and stay indoors?

I think that all of us now should take care of ourselves and enjoy the family more, exchange more ideas and information.

In addition, have you ever thought about going on a weekend and being closer to nature? walk in a park with the family, go to a waterfall and enjoy the water that comes from the source of the rivers.

To conclude, we must enjoy the weekend with the family and do something that gives us pleasure, a good book, travel to an inn, walk in the park, I can assure you that these moments are unique, let's disconnect a little from the internet and of social networks.

Eridan

Firstly, the digital world can be either a way of entertainment and learning, with the online games and digital activities, or an unsecure space where privacy and legal protection for child’s rights are frequently infringed. I think the latter is the kernel of the issue. All children should be under guidance when they need to use the internet. And, in my opinion, there are no reasons at all for a child to have his/her/their own cell phone. In contrast, some people say that there is no big deal.

In addition, the lack of physical social relationships with friends, e. g. in the school, in the playground etc., and its replacement with digital connection may lead to sleep and behavioral problems. I think that the digital solutions to shorten distances are paramount, but its use by children unsupervised is a risk for both health and protection of rights. For example, a video call to play an online game together is a good choice provided that the children are safe from a third part intrusion. Parents, guardians, and the society itself have the responsibility to respect and protect them.

To sum up, I disagree with the idea to give a cell phone to a child under the age of ten. It does not mean that the use of the internet itself should be forbidden as it has some benefits. But the thing is: all children, no matter the age, really needs to be protected and supervised, specially in the digital world.

Mario Cesar Lobo Junior

After thinking about it, some people decide to have one day off from the internet a week. I think this is an interesting idea because sometimes we get so connected that even on a rest day we can get tired if we keep sending messages, on the social media or checking our email. The effects of overuse of the internet can be even worse for children.

I believe that children under 10 years old can use the internet, but this must happen with parental supervision and especially with a limited amount of time, but this situation is even more difficult if parents can’t control the time that themselves spending on the internet.

To sum up, I believe that most people spend a lot of time on the internet and that we should rethink the amount of time that we spend, because we may be missing out on wonderful things that are happening in the real world.

Ana Paula Simões

Firstly, many people have an addiction to social media, they can’t spend a day without a quick look at your Instagram, YouTube, Whatsapp, Facebook, Pinterest and others.The social media has some strengths, it is like a tool that can help you to move, communicate, publicize your jobs and a lot of other things. Have you ever thought about how social media can be toxic in our society? This means the side effects of it and over consumption of your users. Every day, when we open the apps, we can see fake news, fake people, hate speech and other subjects capable of generating feelings of anxiety or dissatisfaction. 

In addition, there is a documentary on Netflix called “The Social Dillema”. This documentary explores the impact of social networking with tech experts alarming about their own creations. They show how the designers created and have control over billions of people, and how the app can manipulate, polarize, distract, monetize, divide and control the human race. I believe it's a great documentary about how apps can hold our attention. 

To sum up, I think that users of social media need to reflect how much influence it has in your life. Are you living or just seeing the screen of your smartphone?

Isabella Pereira Rico

 Since the internet was invented in the war and
just realease to the public when the government notice how much finacial
possibilities it has, is no surprise that there is a bad side. One big news
about it was how companies and the government itself used ours data to control
without our consent. Most people are not aware how bad this is, for example.
with it they control the information sent to us in a way which can make us
believe in things or became unaware of things that we usually wouldn't. And also,
the data is use to sell not only ideas but also products, because with the
knowledge of the way we think the advertisement we'll recieve most likely will
interest us more than the ones without out this knowledge.

 

In contradiction, there are great things about the loveble internet. Because of it, people are able to share images, videos, audios, and messages all around the world, it has made the world seems so much smaller than it is, also the amount of content we can find about all sort áreas of knowledge. In my opinion in this current pandemic was prove the potential of it with the online classes, online books, apps for learning or just gathering with friends. 

 

To sum up, I believe the internet has more good than bad, here I’m talking of hope most, because with the use of it as a tool make us able to do amazing things in the world, for example sharing ideas, but we need to don’t be naive about it, since there will be always the things mention on the second paragraph. We need to become more conscious about the use of it so we can make a better world to ourselves. 

Andie S.

 

 

Firstly, people are losing the ability to talk and care for each other and not enjoy the precious moments we share in our families and with our friends. We should spend more time talking and participating in other people's lives.
 
In addition, if we have a day off the internet, we can walk, cycle or travel to a place without internet with family or friends. There are people who say it's a “waste of time”, but I disagree. In my opinion, this time is priceless and should be shared frequently with family and friends.
 
To sum up, I believe we should have one day a week off the internet to get closer to the people we relate to and to preserve our relationships and feelings.

Nelson Mayrink Giansante

 In these days, the word cringe won a special place on internet and a polemic between the called Millennials (1980-1994) and Z generation (1995-2010). The subject run out the internet. On TV News, for instance, the polemic was explained for the televiewer. On the classes students and teachers talked about be or not be cringe. Artists posted their opinions on social medias. 

Be a cringe, means do something considered corny or depressive, tell us Matheus Pichonneli from UOL News. A list of actions needs be verified to know if you are a cringe. A cringe does things like to pay “boletos”, to talk about Friends, to say “I will drink a big litter”, to be Harry Potter fan or wear a skinny pants. You are a cringe if you use “rsrs” in WhatsApp or add a hashtag in subtitles. The strangest thing in the list is to like coffee or a breakfast. Of course, is not need be a Millennial to eat breakfast. 

The Brazilian comedian Leandro Hassum made a post on Instagram. He said, “I pooped for cringe”, “Go find what to do”. About to pay a bank slip, an article in NuBank Blog shows who the Z Generations also pay “boletos” and do not know do financial investments, letting their money in savings accounts. 

To sum up, I am also a millennial and obviously a cringe too. I believe the conflicts between generations always have been happening. Probably this is just a joke between kids and parents. And so fast it came so fast it goes. Like everything in internet. About that, maybe you can enjoy a Friends episode again. 

Ítalo

Nowadays, we can talk to other people all the time by phone calls or just by sending them some voice messages. But is that voice other people receive on their phones really our voice?

Firstly, we have to understand how the phone record the sounds. When we talk the air between you and the listener start to vibrate in the same way as your vocal chords. It means that the phone need to record this vibration and them transmit them thru the internet or the phone lines.

In addition, the smartphones don’t really hear us, it creates a lot of sound waves in the software. We call that waves the white noise or white frequency, and when we talk the smartphone transmits the difference between your voice and the white noise. So you don’t really hear your voice on the phone, but the difference between your voice and the base on the software.

To sum up, you could make a nice experiment to see this difference using two smartphones, recording and sending the same audio from one smartphone to another again and again.  At some point you will only hear the white noise. 

Paulo Ed

First, it is necessary to reaffirm that during the Covid 19 quarantine, online study was essential in the role of educating young people, but with it, many lost basic principles such as coexistence and socialization, which effects will be observed in a few years.

In addition, many guardians chose to give their children smartphones, both for studies and for fun. However, when making such a decision, the person responsible often does not follow what their child is doing on their cell phone, and whether the content is compatible with their age. In addition, the sedentary lifestyle among this new generation has reached frightening levels, making an entire generation possibly undeveloped physically.

To sum up, while technology helps a child's intellectual development, it inhibits physical development, causing children to spend more time sitting than necessary. Therefore, it can be said that the child should not have a smartphone until he is 10 years old, so that the parents can control the child's technology consumption time.

Ana Silvia Mendes