Digital habits across generations

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My friend, Khaing Sin Thant, uses smart phone among friends. She constantly uses it for Facebook, which is a fun place to share feelings and pretty moments among Burmese teenagers. Also, she spend her time on smartphone by chatting with her boyfriend. Besides, Khaing watch movies and series on her phone.

In my family I think all of us are using them. My parents are addicted to facebook and whattsapp, while my little brother was addicted with online games and I am addicted to instagram and online games. Sometimes I felt like I don't want to play phone that day but end up playing phone all day. I admitted it is really disturbing me because of that 'playing phone' I procastinate my homework a lot and regret about it when it came to duedate but then I will repeat it again..
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My son, aged 11 is addict to his mobil phone. When I say to him that hes not allowed to see on his phone so often he gets angry. This is why we not allowed him his phone for one week now.

Me :( I`m sorry to my family about that because I miss valuable moments with them. I know its just wasting my time but its like a bad addiction...

Nowadays gadgets are important in our daily life includes my grandmother. She likes to watch lives in my Facebook account. I have recommended her to register a new account but she rejected. What I feel a bit irritable is sometimes she share the live to my personal account or my friends through messenger. Then I need to delete and explain to my friends. Although technologies are convenient for us but we need to control our uses in smartphones and spend more time with our family.

Certainly, I use smartphone and social media much more my parents. I'm addicted to it and use it all the time, because I feel like I can't stop receiving some interesting information, knowledge, and several issues from social media, which are very useful for me. Nevertheless, I think it is a little bit toxic to my mental health due to negative information, shock news and also my jealousy of others' well-being, so I try to cut myself off from social media but I always suffer. As a result, I'm always complained about too much using social media by my parents, who rarely use social media and don't prefer following news.

i think it's me because I can't leave my phone for many hours. Actually i used to consider about this but i can't stop use the phone because because apart from entertainment i also use it to study and work.

Yeah , it’s the problem we facing in this advanced technological era.
I am also addicted to my phone.Sometimes feel guilty for so much time spending on social media.But on the other hand it is good to have contact with families and friends especially during pandemic when we can’t meet in person.As early adopters parents to mobile devices and internet, it’s difficult to tell their children to reduce screen time.I think we should change the ways we use those in order to set a good example for children.As for generations above us ,these advanced technology made them to get close contact with their families and friends virtually.I think ,it’s good for them because of that they don’t feel lonely and can contact again with their longtime-no-see friends.

Definitely, I'm the person who used most smartphone in my house. My brother used so much too, but I think I'm more addicted, it's something that bothers me, but I can't stop using all the time LOL.

I use more time mobile phone than others. I'm not in social media app. I'm only use study purpose.

I'm afraid it's me. I use my smartphone almost constantly. I have recently realized that I am constantly connected to social media and apps, still in front of my screen. I must change my habit.

In my family, my wife is who uses the smartphone the most. Mainly for her work, but I think she has a sort of adiction with social media. In the past I was near to fall in that ritym, but I realized how harmfull it could be to my life and professional performance. So, I've been downplaying the time I spend on it

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I think that my friends are more addicted to social media than my family. On the one hand, my friends are always writing, reading or watching videos on their phones even when they're talking to other people. For me that habit is impolite, and I think they are missing out on spending funny time with people. On the second hand, I consider the majority of my family members no addicted to social media or apps. However I have an aunt who loves playing apps on her phone even when we're eating dinner as a family. She's playing with her phone at every moment. Finally, if you ask me if I'm addicted to my phone, I will tell you that I'm not addicted enough, so I mean I use my phone every day, but for academic purposes. I mean I learned English on my own with my cellphone, and I need it every day to study English. Even though the internet is used a lot by me, I dislike social media, I consider it so tiresome.

I feel like my friends are more addicted to technology than my family. On the one hand, my friends are teenagers and most of them prefer to spend a lot of time with their phones than go out and share with other people. I think that happens because the apps are pretty addictive, for example TikTok or Instagram. On the other hand, my relatives spend less time with their phones because they think that the most important thing is to share time with family. And lastly, I guess that sometimes I use much time on my social media and I don't like it, because with that time you can do other important things like read a book, learn a new language or other skills.

It's me! The most using smart phone! Until about three months ago... When I woke up, I picked up the phone, than used social media, played game, watched movies and chatted with friends except working time. I even used my phone while I was eating. How bad is it? But, I can try to control my self, reduce using social media and playing game. Now, I can replace them by reading the Bible, praying for my country to release from Junta, watching the Bible study lives, studying English to improve myself, doing workout.

Sometimes I think, I can't without live my mobile phone, it is not just the phone .I keep all of my important information in my smart phone. I have a lot of pin as like as you and I can't hold inside my hand all of the information .Also I use my phone as a note book.When we bet any topic with my friend , I always check it out on internet. I was young before the internet, it was a good time without smart phone but İf we had a information any topic, we were check in the big heavy books and there are not always true. I love my smart phone and I m pretty sure that I am not addicted on internet.

I guess it's me. My friends and My family are not so addicted to smartphone and social media. so do I. but I'm into a game recently. I can't help playing the game. I used my smart phone only a few minutes per day before but after found this game I use it over 3hours or more per day.

I think we all use the smartphone in the same amount of time, which is bad because we spend at least four hours of our days in these gadgets.

I think that they both use their smartphones equality.

It s really amazing to see how eenagers and children are comfortables withs smartphones, they use them every day and night for everything, they can forget theirs schoolbook, but never their phones!

Now the number of people ues the digital life increase in the all of the world that is effect in social life. In my family not ues much their phone. I hope to keep this behavior.

All generation on my family uses social media applications like facebook. The new generation use these apps more than an old generation.

All of them!

we cant deny that social media really affected our lives. Since my parents know instagram and stuffs we barely talks even if we sat to each other in a living room. I wanted to have a little chit chat with them, but they are too busy with their social media. And i hate it when i try to make a conversation but they just look at their phone screen and not into my eyes :)

My friends use their phones more than my family. However, my father use his phone so much, not only to call or chat but also to social media like Facebook.

In my family the young generation use their smart phone to access digital habits such as tiktok, instagram, whatsapp, twitter, smart chat, messenger, face book, you tube, face time etc.

I think my friends use their smartphones more because in this day and age they must work on the Internet. anyway my family is using more their smart phones now.

Nowadays digital technologies play a very important role in many dimensions of life. There are a lot of talks about addiction to smartphones. I half agree with such a statement. On the one side, it's true cause people really spend a lot of time using their gadgets. On the other side, at all times some people were addicted to something like excessive smoking, excessive eating, excessive watching TV, etc. Everything excessive is bad. Social media is not an exception. When it comes to relationships between edges, grandparents always suffer from a lack of attention to them from their grandchildren, no matter what they are doing, whether staring at their smartphones or meeting friends. Every next generation has its own advantages and disadvantages.

As Brazilian, I have to say that the use of technology it's rather different for us. My parents weren't the first generation to use smartphones, but my generation, people in theirs 18-24. Thus, it was this generation that introduced the technology to our parents and grandparents. Unfortunately, I realized people are more and more addicted to internet and smartphones in general—people don't talk with eachother on the way of work anymore, instead they keep looking at their smartphones, it's sadly became a excuse not to have social contact.

Technology has strongly dominated our lives. Its constant use has become so natural and so familiar to us that we never give a thought to the issue. Surprisingly, now that I'm endeavoring to think about it, I'm realizing that we are constantly in front of a screen, if it is not a smartphone, then it is either a computer, a tablet or a smartTV. Nobody in my family is using the phone that much, maybe because they are all adults or kids, no teenagers but yet we are using the smartTV almost the same way we used to use our smartphones. Ironically, machines have started to take control over humans, and who knows where this situation could lead us in the further future.

In the family, I think that adult people who use smartphone the most communicate or chat to works. Beside that they need to do all of thing to relate their life. Opposite with parents children use their cell phone for surf website or play games the most. Nowadays, cell phone which is essential of the life, people can not have it

Neither my parents nor my friends use much mobile as they are aware of its loss. Mobile phones is made only for advantages. But younger generation is using it irrelevantly

I'm fairly sure that an enormous part of humanity addicted to different social media. However, I think that it isn't so awful how some people reckon. Social medias can make us feel less lonely cause we can communicate wit other people all over the world at any time. But we should to think for ourself that social media can't be so attractive as real life.

Mostly, youths about or over 20-year-old are addicted with mobile and social media. And as far as I know, many teens are not influenced by social media. They are addicted in something new, for instance, video game and some new high-tech application.

personally i think the teenagers like me and my brother use smart phone all the time , but when my parents bought smart phones too they became addiction on social media all the time

In my opinion, most youths including me spend our time by using social media.It might be dangerous for next generation.We should change our behaviours.

In my opinion I spend most of my time on the phone but there are pros and cons. The advantages of the fact that I meet and communicate with different people, get interesting and informative information from the Internet. Disadvantages that I spend time online, so you can communicate with family more, spend time outdoors and do different things

I think I spend a lot of time on my phone, but I don't think it's very bad because I communicate with other people on social networks + during distance learning, the phone becomes a best friend

Hmm, modern technologies are available to everyone, but what did you doubt?

I think our phones it’s part of our life and today it’s normal , but I should used internet rarely

My mother like the mother in the article uses Facebook for different purposes.For example, she can find necessary imformation, chat with relatives anf even play some games

This information is very interesting for me. It's funny to watch grandparents use gatgets.I'm glad to see them happy about it.

I'm more addicted to the phone, I can't be without Instagram and other messengers for a long time, but sometimes I leave my phone and spend time with my family, and sometimes I just do my homework and have no time on the phone

i am the more addicted on my phone, actually i am forced to be online all the time cause my work depends on phone ,i admit that i am missing out on spending time with my family ,however, i am trying to cut off from mobile in weekends as i am less keen by facebook and social media .

Unfortunately, most people that I know, more than normal use smartphones and social media. Although technologies such as the internet, smartphones, and social media are very useful to our lives, addiction to them is very bad. For example in our family, my wife, my father, etc. use their smartphones more than usual. but I try to manage my usage.

In my family the person who uses his phone the most is my youngest sister, she uses it day and night