Adolescents: What´s Screen Time?

"How much are the glowing rectangles taking away from adolescents social and emotional health?"( ) Not only glowing rectangles, which are cell phones, there are also computer screens and televisions that take away a child's mind into another world. This is screen time. What is screen time? Screen time is when a child (or adult) sits in front of a screen for a certain amount of hours or minutes that they should be doing other things, like going outside and talking to real people, not ones behind the screen. Imagine a world where everyone is behind a screen, take a good look at the world around you. Screens are taking over the world, for example billboards in New York and there’s probably a phone in your pocket. There are computer screens inside cafés, libraries and inside restaurants,like a Burger King. Sitting in front of screens for a longer time than necessary can hinder skills needed for daily interactions with themselves and their environment.
Today's schools are administering iPads within their school districts and most schools have at least one to two computer labs. Children use computers to look up and research things that they do not know or may not understand. Although screen time is beneficial for the knowledge of young students it can also lead to false information due to some websites can be edited by those who may not know the facts of the topic that the website is asking for. Screen time can be proved knowledgeable by certain sources. On the contrary false information can be led through video games and the wrong sources online. Wikipedia, for example, can be edited by unreliable sources of people that are like you and me. This can lead to major impacts like college students who use sources online. Many colleges can expel students with the wrong sources. False information can get someone in a lot of