It is impossible to argue that technology isn't changing the generations who grow up with it. But how important is it that we stay the same as the generations before us, peoples relation ships and ways of communication have always evolved. The Article sites a statistic that 22% of teens log onto a social networking site more than 10 times a day. the article also mentions a teen that says they dont know what they feel until they've put it into a text. both of these do show some problems, but they are both not nearly reflective of the whole of teens. And in regards to the social networking piece does that include logging on from a mobile device? because if it does, then that likely is more related to ease of access and boredom than the desire to constantly see whats going on. When this article touches on gaming, it says that 8.5% said that it has interfered with there life, and that classifies it as an addiction. While there are many that are addicted, I feel that at least some portion of those are to thinking about maybe the week that a game came out, and they got temporarily sucked into story of it. They also said that parents should pick out there kids games. NO. Just NO. If my mom were to pick out a video game for me, it would probably be one for learning the alphabet, or getting better at some academic concept, and when games are based on academic concepts they cease to be games(in my opinion). But that does not mean that games cannot be educational. There is a game I am playing right now that is not advertised, or is it mentions as a game that teaches you anything, but it requires thought, and touches on geography and history extensively. the article ends with them saying that students 8-18 spend around 7.5 hours daily with music, cellphones, computers, T.V., or video games. this doesn't surprise me. when your with your friends your normally listening to music, when your not your probably talking with them some how, either via cellphone or computer. And listening to music to good pretty much all the time, in the car, at home, in an elevator, on hold on the phone. tThe media is inescapable. One thing I would like to see is the responses from other age groups, seeing if its that we as a whole consume more media or is it just that there is more media to consume.