Jun 07, 2021
Teens' social media and texting habits as well as how they consume media is changing the way
they communicate, date, learn, sleep, exercise, and more. In fact, the average teen spends over
nine hours each day using their electronic devices.
Parents, teachers and communities across the country are concerned with teen issues, which
are caused by a number of social, cultural, technological, communal, economic, familial, and
individual factors. While it may be hard to change the nature of the Internet, computers, cell
phones and TV, there is always something that each one of us can do to reduce teen violence, the rate of teen suicide, teen cyber-bullying, bullying at school, and help develop a well-adjusted
relationship to our technological and commercialized culture, and a creative and balanced use
of the Internet, Online Gaming, etc.