According to my parents, my inability to concentrate can be attributed solely to my smart …show more content…
Teens carried their phones at all times and social media was directly correlated with popularity. Because of this, my peers and I were constantly glued to our phones. The epidemic of phone and social media addiction makes it difficult for teens to leave their phones alone for more than a couple minutes. Throughout high school I struggled to listen in class and focus for seven hours a day. Homework was even worse. The constant distraction of my phone made a one hour assignment take two. When it comes to doing activities I do not enjoy doing, I usually will pull out my phone for entertainment. Eventually, it came to be something I depended on when I did not feel like doing work. Millennials find it difficult to focus for long periods of time without using their phones simultaneously, seeking the immediate gratification of a nine second snapchat video, one-hundred-and-forty-character tweet, and an easily accessible picture on Instagram. These features that technology provides minimizes the teenage attention span while offering short term