Teens Spending Too Many Hours On Social Media

Today,a lot of parents are concerned about their kids,spending most of their time on social media and video games.They think,that it is a complete waste of time,which distracts them from school and a normal life.Parents think,that their kids could spend this time on education and real world experience.However the kids don’t agree with that.They say it is a lot of fun playing video games with their friends and also reading jokes,texting and watching videos and photos on social media.In these days internet is a big concern for parents and the community

Kids from age of 8 to 18 on average spend 44.5 hours a week.

Nearly 23% of youth report that they feel “addicted to video games” (31% of males, 13% of females.) These are the results of a new study of 1,178 U.S. children and teens (ages 8 to 18) conducted by Harris Interactive (2007) that documents a national prevalence rate of pathological video game use.However,that is only about gaming.

If teens are, on average, spending nine hours a day consuming media, it's not such a surprise they're often doing it while doing their homework. Half of teens say they "often" or "sometimes" use social media or watch TV while doing their homework. Some 60% say they text and more than 75% say they listen to music while working on schoolwork at home.

More than 50% of teens say,that multitasking doesn’t affect their quality of work.

"Teenagers think that multitasking during homework doesn't affect their ability to learn and ... we know it does," said Steyer, citing studies such as one in Stanford,which found dramatic differences in cognitive control and the ability to process information between heavy media multitaskers and light media multitaskers.

"It's completely obvious that you can't multitask and be as effective and competent."

Also the study shows,that boys are more about gaming and the girls are more about social media.On average girls spend 40-50 more minutes than boys on social media.It is clear that girls use techonology more sociably than boys and the boys spend their time on video games.

I think parents and their kids should set a specific amount of hours or minutes per day.It would be much better if kids spent around 2 hours a day.This will lead to more face to face conversations and real life experience.