Most people usually cannot sleep with some type of device on. Whenever it’s a phone, TV, tablet, etc. All of those things affect your sleep pattern and how well you really sleep. When you sleep your body needs absolute darkness for the best sleep.

When you use a phone you typically look down with bad posture. Over time this is going to cause a lot of people spine issues and neck problems, especially in our youth due to the age of people using electronics. It’s more common for a 13-year-old to own a phone than it was just 5 years ago.

Laziness is also a huge issue with the development of technology, especially for the youth. Almost 50% of our youth don’t even know how to properly use a dictionary or find answers within textbooks given to them.  Instead, they’d much rather just Google it and look through the internet instead of actually using the proper textbook.

The most common thing that can also happen to our youth in the future is terrible eyesight. When you’re at such a young age and constantly looking at a screen your eyesight is going to deteriorate. And the age of device use is just getting younger and younger so if you have a kid or younger brother or sister make sure that their screen time is limited so they don’t need glasses down the line.

Another thing that can also be a problem while browsing the internet is that there are people who try and hurt younger kids. Most people are aware of the danger for kids using the internet but none the less it should still be mentioned. If you have a kid younger than the age of 14 make sure to go through their phone and be aware of whom they may be talking to. Even if they’re 14, if you feel like you need to check and see if they are safe then do so, due to the fact that there are predators that pretend to be younger than what they actually are and can most definitely harm that child if there are no safety measures be taken.

And lastly, there are a lot of pros of technology: the ability to make phone calls, face time, text, message etc. You can even meet people from all over the world. It would be very biased of me if I only talked about the negative. There are a lot of pros to technology as well, just be aware of the cons.