How Big of a Distraction can Social Media Be for Kids?

Conley, D. (2011, March 19). time.com. Retrieved from Times Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048363,00.html

In the article, "Wired for Distraction: Kids and Social Media," Dalton Conley talks about how parents shouldn't be generally focused on cyberbullying, sexual predators, and inappropriate material. Conley states that they should think about what social media is doing for their brains. The purpose of this article is to prove that being expose to social media at a young age isn't good. "A Kaiser Foundation report released last year found that an average, children ages 8 to 18 spend 7 hours 38 mins, a day using entertainment media. and if you count each content stream separately -- a lot of kids, for example, text while watching television -- they are logging almost 11 hours of media usage a day." If a kid sleeps at least 7 to 8 hours a day, that means, if this fact is actually true, they spend more than half of their being exposed to social media, and they aren't trying to gain knowlegde. This article is useful because all this new technology that we are getting isn't good for the young. We have to remember this is the up and coming generation and these facts seems as if they aren't learnig anything.