Olivia Phua 3A1

Internet Addiction

Nowadays, a household would at least have a computer at home. The advance in technology causes more and more people, especially teenagers to be addicted to the internet.

Parents are busy with their work and they tend to neglect their children. Children need the care and concern of their parents, especially when they are at their teenage life. However, if they do not get enough care from their parents, they will spend the time they have left on the computer. Hence, they would then spend hours sitting in front of the computer screen, surfing the internet or playing online games. When this happens, the uses of the internet increases. Besides being able to source for information, it became more of an entertainment.

Some teenagers tend to use their parents' trust in them as an advantage. As we know, some parents are not able to understand English well. Hence, their children would lie to them and say that they have to use the computer for studying purposes. However, when the computer is turned on, you will not be able to see the work that they are doing as they will be using the computer to surf the net.

Many teenagers sleep in class and cannot concentrate on their studies because they are using the computer without any limit. Besides this, they tend to skip a day's lesson just to have more time use the computer, which cause them to be isolated in their own world, not knowing what is happening around them and they will become more and more unsociable as they are living in the virtual world. If this continues, our future generation would follow in our footsteps. Hence, we should stop this from continuing.

Most of the teenagers think that the only activity that they can do is the surf the net. However, there are many more activities that they could do. Besides using the internet, they can study at home or at the library with their friends, have a picnic with their family, visit museums and exhibitions, or do outdoor sports.

In conclusion, teenagers should stop spending too much time on the computer and focus more on their studies and score well in their exams.