... on students can distract them from completing homework and projects. When bored, it's easy for a teen to go to twitter and entertain themselves (some for hours) while they could be using that time to do something productive. Twitter almost encourages a user to substitute this social phenomenon for homework and other things that should be made a priority. "40% of 8 to 18 year olds spend 54 minutes a day on social media ... , in a perfect world, there wouldn't be any bad sides to it. It would simply be a way to connect with friends and family through the internet. It wouldn't affect our li...

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... quickly go to grab my phone and check. I use my phone to talk to my friends and family. The reason I believed I wasn't an addict was because there are some parts of me that are still old fashioned. I still have and use a house phone to talk to my friends ... listening to music when I do just about anything. I even need music when I drive my car. Jumping to Saturday the day before starting the experiment I made sure to tell everyone I talked to not to text me because I wouldn't reply, except if it's for an emergency to witch ... TV on it almost made me want to get out my phone, but I did...

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