Throughout the decades as technology has been on the rise, there has been a lot of debate regarding whether or not the overuse of technology is an issue for children and teenagers. Many people are concerned about teens being too attached to technology and choosing isolation with technology over being active and interacting with others face-to-face. Others believe that screen time presents many opportunities for greatness among teenagers and that overuse is not the greatest concern. These two differing opinions have created two distinct sides to this long running debate. The first side presented with this topic regards the belief that screen time is not as big of an issue as society is as discussed by Danah Boyd and Brendesha Tynes. Boyd believes…show more content… She ends her argument strongly by asking, “why are we blaming the screens?” and having the reading continue thinking even after they have finished reading. Tynes brings up a similar argument in that she says that the main concern isn’t the overuse of technology in teenagers’ lives but the issue of cyberbullying. Tynes believes that technology provides many benefits to the lives of teens and the real issue is in the interactions that take place on the internet that are potentially negative and harmful. Teens can express their determination and create great things through technology. Similar to Boyd, Tynes ends her argument with a lasting impact on the reader by asking, “would we call that kind of drive and focus an ‘addiction’?”. Both Boyd and Tynes strengthen their arguments by interacting with their readers when questioning them and they utilize the rhetorical appeal of pathos. They create an emotional appeal when discussing the hard hitting topics of society and cyberbullying. Chris Bergman brings up to most agreeable argument comparable to Boyd’s and Tynes’ in that he argues that screen time should not be…show more content… Potenza compares the current use of technology to that of substance abuse and gambling disorders. Potenza instills a lot of ethos in his argument because he is a professor of psychiatry and neurobiology, however, his argument only discusses the small amount of extreme cases there are in the overuse of technology. Similarly, Young believes that there should be limited screen time among children. She argues that there should be specific restrictions on technology use on each age group of a child’s life. Her argument is weakened by that lack of reasoning that she has behind her argument as well as her unrealistic expectations for the restrictions such as, teenagers creating a log of all their use of technology. Both sides are very credible in that they both have backgrounds in psychiatry and psychology which does provide the reader with the sense that they do, in fact, know exactly what they are talking about. They believe that teens can accomplish more without the risk of overuse of technology if at least some boundaries are
