Technology for Teens, good or bad?

Technology, today became one of the elements in the earth’s that grows very fast.

Technology in this context is information and communication.

We,as modern human,at this time is no wonder anymore when seeing people using mobile phones wherever they are. In taxis,markets,houses,and even when driving,people still use their phones.

One the other hand,we see that the use of technology is dominated  by teenangers. They are very quick to accept and understand how to use technology.there are many students from elementary,junior high school,senior high school,and university that consistently using technology ranging from mobile phones,computers,internet and games.

Is technology is good or bad? Technology is a group of devices that can be bad for the development of teenanger’s life.

First, many spread of information between technology devices is not filtered anymore,information,whether it’s bad or good.It quickly spreads from one devices to another. As result,many teens are accessing p*rno*raphy and even addicted to access that bad content.

Various cases of s*xual harassment,r*pe,and pr*miscuity that exists among teenagers today,many are caused by them who are very easy to access the bad content using the internet.

Second,the addiction to the internet and games,makes the teens forget that they are social creatures who must interact with others.I see many cases where people meet at a place but they do not talk : they just “chat” with their friends who are so far away.They prefer to interact online using facebook,twitter,path,instragram,and other social medias rather then interacting in real life by talking directly to the people who are near them.

This is a contrary  ideology for us,the people of indonesia.We should create a society that is tolerant and caring with each other.When this situation continues,we will lose our identity.Indonesian teenagers will grow up to be people who do not care about each other,do not like to socialize,and do not even know the people around them.

However,although the technology has a devastating effect,behind this sophistication developed by humans,of course.It has many good effects. Frist,techonology is device that is able to increase the speed and effectiveness of information flow. We are no longer a conventional man who must send a letter if we want to comunicate with a long distance friend and we are no longer human being who have to wait for days to get a reply message from a friend. Nowadays,everything became easier because of technology .We are able to send message using e-mail and SMS within a few second . We are able to chat with old friend  who haven’t met for a long time  while she or he lives far from where we live.We are able to chat with them using BBM,Facebook,What’s up Massager,Line massager and many more.

Second, technology is a very good business media campaign. We certainly recognize the internet,a medium of information that can be accessed by millions people from all over the word,whenever and wherever they want. When the internet is use to promote a product,then there must be many consumers who come to buy the product.The marketing strategy by the internet,is also used by teens.  I find that many high school or university students consistently having a business by using Social media such as Fcebook,Twitter,Instagram or BBM. It is the impact of the technology that are very positive and should be supported by everyone.Using the internet, a teenager does not need to have a big fund to make a business.They do not have to prepare tens of millions to rent a place as a store. They just need to utilize their mobile phones to sell and make money.

Technology, we know having the bad and the good effect for teenagers.To make them understand no how to use it wellas parents,we must guide them continuously.