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 of their phones.
One the other hand, we see that the use of technology is dominated by teenagers.
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 good or bad? Technology is a group of devices that can be bad for the
development of teenager’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 device
to another. As a 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, Instagram, and
other social medias rather than 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. First,
technology is a 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 communicate 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 messages
using e-mail and SMS within a few seconds. We are able to chat with old friends
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, Whats Up Messenger, Line
Messenger, 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 world, whenever and wherever they want. When the Internet is used 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 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or BBM. It is the impact of
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 on how to use it well, as parents, we must guide them continuously.