Dear Samantha Taylor,

I am composing this letter to give my own point point of view suggesting why teenagers should not be doubted upon social media due to the fact that this article is implying that teenagers are intoxicated with certain social media sites like Facebook, and how it might have effect on their social.

I felt it was important to write this letter because I agree with your statement that all of these negative portrayals that people like John Henley imply about teenager, such as ‘’young people post information about themselves online that horrifies their elders’’. And also don’t care about their privacy. I understand that newspapers only comment on a small proportion of incidents that have occurred but claim that it is how all teenagers behave online.

The article written by Samantha Taylor implies that the ”digital age is making teenagers unable to form uniquely shallow and the kids are unable to form meaningful relationships”. I strongly disagree with this statement because digital technology has enabled teenagers, but also including people from older generations to remain in contact with siblings or simply people with a close relationship to stay in contact. You might ask yourself, why would I defend these poor teenagers? Well because this article is discriminating teenagers. Teenagers are being targeted by this article, eventhough people from older generations have influenced them into being anti-social. This anti-social attitude of segregation away from a society that may cause harm on a teenager’s development as a person. Digital technology was created to enable people to maintain communication.  However, teenagers  have taken advantage of digital technology and have used it to access inappropriate things such pornography. This is due to older generations introducing this type of technology to younger generations as part of their nurture, causing them them to develop it as a type of need and something they have to carry through their life for communication.

I detest the fact that this article keeps implying that teenagers have ‘enslaved’ themselves to this digital technology by someone who is from an older generations and who are being hypocritical.  The older generations commenced this such behaviour when they developed this technology, which was evolved this idea into a nightmare. So dear Samantha Taylor, please comprehend that this idea of teenagers enslaving themselves is not something that corresponds to them, having effect on their social life. This digital technology was a disease created by man to spread out and infect people, then being transmitted down the upcoming generations. This was introduced as part of their nature and affected their capability to socialise.

Jonathan Frazen refers to the idea that social media sites are making hard to distinguish meaningful relationships and that social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram stop teenagers distinguishing the reality of our nature of face to face conversations. But also that teenagers might get mixed into relationships with no connectivity in terms of emotions because of a screen being in between them. I totally disagree with Jonathan Franzen’s point because I see the total opposite of what he’s implying.I believe that social media site have actually enabled not just teenagers, but people of all ages to communicate with certain siblings who as distant from each other. Even those who are probably living in another country to reunite contact. Jonathan Franzen also expresses his frustration younger generations who are stuck on social media.

Teenagers are not screen – enslaved social inadequates! Digital technology enriches the lives of the younger generations because it improves the quality of their lives. They are able to stay in contact with certain family members abroad and also to stay updated with events that have occurred in our world. Digital technology is a powerful tool that has enabled us to be interconnected with one another.

Yours sincerely,

Juan Paredes