Commentary English
INTRO
Nowadays, digital technologie is present everywhere in our life and continue to replace humans in multiple
tasks. We first saw this phenomenon as an enhancement making people lives easier. Netherless these
advancement started to show their bad sides due to the addiction they create. Indeed we just have to look at
the youth and the children to see the place that the mobile phone take in their life. The mobile phone has
always been a controversal object in our society.The screen use is much critisised by people claiming his
dangerousness and defended by other.
SUMMARY
The document understudy is an article published by The Guardian in 2019. It was written by Andrew Przybylski
and Amy Orben and treat about the different opinion about screens use.In this article is highlight the fact that
this shared opinion in our society that screen are noxious for us has not scientfic evidences even tough we can’t
deny that too much screen is not good for us.A study has been make on teens and preteens in order to find a
link between wellbeing and screen use but no conclusions has been found.In conclude we can’t find answer on
this question about screen use except if we would have the secret information on the developpment on theses
technologies. However theses secret are well kept.
COMMENTARY
These informations may make us wonder about the past and current events between digital technologies and
children that can make us think about this potential harmfulness of screens. To answer this problematic we’ll
first see the development of digital technologies and the dangers that followed. Then we’ll analyse the current
situation between screens and children.
To begin let’s analyse the fears during the digital technologie advance. Admetively this subject has always cause
fears and debate due to the mystery behind it. Indeed there are numerous scandals in digital devices history
who made people scared about it. Besides people will always fear things at first by ignorance. We can take the
exemple of the data breach of Facebook in April 2021, when personal data pertaining to 533 million Facebook
users was made public on an online forum. Moreover there were recently rumors about digital devices listening
to their environment in order to collect informations. Since that how can people trust digital developers about
their privacy although there are laws trying to stop developers abusing. It has completely ruined the trust
between people and digital technologies Firms.
Finally we will look at the current situation between children and screens and see the deviences showing this
bad effect of digital technologies. At first we all know that screens create addiction to youth and children
making them forgeting everything around them including people. I personally think that screens harm for
exemple familial relationship. Children are always entertaining them on their phones which stop them of doing
things important for their development like spending time with family, making friends or even hanging out in
order to get some fresh air. Of course i’m taking extremist exemple but that is where leads addiction of screens.
People get killed by drivers using their phone in car. A lot of studies published outcome where screens cause
negative mental health effects of using screens such as depression, anxiety, and brain fog. Still no evidences but
we can’t ignore theses studies.
In conclusion digital technologies was always surroundes by fears and dangers on account of the scandals that
exploded in the past so we can understand people fears. Besides if we look at the social and personal effects of
screens on children but even on adults we can’t deny that it affects us often in the wrong way. Personnaly I
think digital devices are benefic for our lives but only if we can’t keep a control on them and moderate it.
