Steemit Engagement Challenge S3-W2: Impacts of Technology in kids lives by @starrchris.

Write an overview of how technology has impacted the world as a whole.

Technology is the best thing that have ever occurred to human beings in this our current generation, since the innovation and invention of technologies live became simpler and easier for a lot of people. Infact sometimes I just imagine how live would be with out phones, cars, internet and most of the amazing technologies ever seen in our world. Although I had a bit of experience of life without some technology and I must say it was difficult, time consuming and expensive for people to cope with. According to some ignorant old people the innovators of this awesome technology used the help of spiritual power to innovate those technologies but as a knowledgeable youth I know it doesn't need any help of spiritual power to be smart enough to innovate problem solving technologies.

Infact I use to call technologies problem solver because they are actually here to solve our biggest and toughest problem no matter the sector or field you specialized this technologies make things easier and better for all. Even the biggest challenge we human face which is a credible, legal and quality souce of income is now be solved with the aid of technologies like Crypto earning and affiliate marketing.

Because of technology now so many can work virtually that's is to say now so many don't need to leave their house to earn money because the can do that using their device from their houses. This has reduced a lot of problems in our environment such as environmental or ozone destruction, road accident wastage of time and energy resources, so therefore technology has over done wonders in our world infact it's a savior to us financially and mentally. Infact every sector of the world is thriving because of the advancement and adoption to technologies and the good news is that the world don't just relax and enjoy the existing technology, instead there are steadily and consistently work on an improve format of version of existing technologies in the world now.

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Some of the benefits of technology

• Safer and better trading system
• Faster and easier communication
• Faster and safer transportation
• Easier reach of knowledge

Safer and better trading system.

Before now traders go through the stress moving around their good around to advertise their goods and services, some trader even go to a long distance in order to sell their goods but now technology has made this much more easier with the help of online ads and e- commarce sites good and services can be easily advertised to interested customers from different part of the world without leaving your house or place if comfort.

Also before now large amount of cash or money are carried around by people in other to perform business transaction and this made armed robber richer because they would attack anyone who has large cash and is still venerable, that is to say before now it's was risky for traders to make transaction from with distance customers because of theft and robbery. But all thanks to technology like ATM machine careless transfer and bank card the sending and receiving of money is quite safer and easier and better for all including buyers and sellers.

Faster and easier communication

Before now town criers walks around the community shouting and hitting gong just to spread informations to the members of the community about an update or meeting expected to hold in a given period of time. Then later as things started advancing people would write letters to to their love ones and take it to the post office and then the post office agents which at times take weeks, take the submitted letter to their destination. As I just said the submission is said to take a lot of time and energy which is very bad for emergency cases because before the required information is sent and received the emergency case must have gotten to an uncontrollable state.

But since the innovation of advance technologies like phones and computers which connect people from far or near locations with awesome softwares like social media platforms and phone call software, speed of communication is like speed of light which is very

Share with us some of the positivity and negativity of technology in kids' lives.

In as much as technologies are really great in our lives and in that of our kids lives there are downsides or negative effects of these technologies if wrongly used in our lives and that of our kids lives. I will list some of the basic and most essential use of technology in our lives before I will be writing about its negative sides.

Some of the positive effects of technology on kids

• Widen their research and knowledge
• Making the tech advanced
• Improvement of mental their capacity

Widen their research and knowledge

It's no new thing that technology and the internet help advance their studies and equipt the kids with necessary tools and knowledge to achieve success in their respective class, the internet makes it easier to read, discover and learn things from different masters which in turn make one a great personality. Infact the internet help them get information easily and faster than than the library.

Improvement of mental their capacity

Some creative software applications like puzzle games, maze games and other games which uses high thinking power could help train and improve the child mental health. Which could help the child be come effective and efficient in problem solving or solution finding in future. At same time some games also help train people in different important skills like

• Better vision
• Enhance hearing
• and as I had said enhanced thinking 🤔

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Some of the negative effect of technology includes

• Obesity in children
• Deadly addictions
• Reduced attention capacity
• Depression

Obesity in children

It's obvious that addictive use of technologies reduces the chances of the child to perform physical activities which in return helps the child burn unnecessary fat which causes obesity. Incase you are not aware obesity is an abnormal Ill condition that causes a person to grain excessive fats in the body till the extended that the person can't perform some basic human activities like walking, breathing normally or running, it's actually very common among kids or people who spend most time indoors without exercising or burning their body fat.

Deadly addictions

Despite the benefits of technology in the world it has also destroyed so many people live, character and future. Since the innovation of technologies like the internet where all sorts of information can be easily gotten at a faster and cheaper rate, some deadly character can easily be learnt from the internet for example characters like

1 Masturbation
2 Use of f languages
3 Racism and wife beating
4 Theft
5 Scam etc

Masturbation

This is known as the most deadly addiction in history, I call it the silent killer because it kills a human being fast without them knowing it's eating them up. Masturbating is the act of one massaging self private part for self pleasure which results to the mental disorder in ability to give birth and in most cases bad performance, I mentioned this because most people do this after s*x arousing movie or video which are easy and free to get online.

How would you rate the impact of technology in kids' life? Highly positive or negative? Explain.

I would give it a higher rate of 8 / 10 because children are very fast learners and learning something in an entertaining environment like the computers and phone has proved to fasten the learning and understanding ability of children, infact for observation have it that kids born in this generation tends to be so so smart and intelligent because of the advance method use to teach them.

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The impact has been positive so far because the use of technology has really produce a lot of tech and problem solving kids in our society, which is a good news because it automatically mean there is chance for a better and easier tomorrow. Now if you visit younger generation you will see that the are great minded and very very smart which is because of use of technology and advanced skills to lecture and train them.

Can you have control over the exposure of kids to certain technological products? How?"

Yes, definitely technologies can be easily controlled by the parents and guardian of the kids as long as the parents or guardian is really interested in reducing his or her child exposure to technologies most especially games, phone and computers.

• First of all the parents or guardian should sit the child down to talk about the side effects of this technologies in a calm and lovely way then you as the parents and guardian you are expected to also advise the child fully on technologies especially the one the use often.

• Secondly devices like android phones and computers has features which allows the device to automatically off at a specific time, so therefore the parents or guardian should set up a specific up time of the children computer devices and also set an automatic turn off time in their kids phone this would help them. This would help them control how the access their device.

• There are some software that helps block certain adult sites, this software could be easily downloaded and be used to restrict their children from adult site which would cause deadly addictions like masturbation

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