The i-Generation

We definitely live in a fast and modern world. Technical gadgets are important to us, we actually couldn’t deserve a life without them. Of course, there is no doubt that it would be possible, but the fact is that we just don’t WANT to live without those gadgets!

Nearly everyone has got a cell phone with internet access; it’s almost not possible anymore to buy a phone which is made just for sending text messages and telephoning someone. But- as being mentioned earlier in the text, it’s a modern world and we somehow have to keep up with it.

But the whole thing turns around when also children do possess a cell phone. There are even kids who get their first phone at the age of 6! And they do not just get any phone, no, they get the latest iPhone! Is that really necessary?

The phone I had at the age of 6 was a toy and not a real phone. What should I have needed a cell phone for? I think that a phone steals a lot of the time you could spend with your family and friends, and, when being a child, it steals a part of your childhood…

The next thing is that the kids are confronted with social media networks at quite an early age and that might be harmful for them. Through social media they are faced with violence and pornography and things that are way too brutal for them. The children then are forced to grow up fast and this is a problem which may affect their later life.

I got my first cell phone at the age of eleven, but I actually didn’t need it. It really became important to me at the age of thirteen, when I started to become more and more independent. But I would never ever have needed a phone when I was a child.

In today’s life it’s the least that could be done that children have their own cell phone. It’s actually shocking, but it has become a part of everyday life. Technology has got a huge impact on our society and has changed it a lot. It’s actually very sad, but I don’t think that anything could be done about it.

Let’s just not forget about that: Children should be children and they deserve to grow up in a natural and save environment with REAL friends. The childhood is far too short, anyway…