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Electronic Age and Children

  Since the people’s existence, they need some requirements and the result of their needs, improvements appear with innovations. Now, it is the period of the electronic age which can be called also, technological age. There are some causes of the electronic age. These are dissatisfaction feeling in people, superiority competition between countries and increasing population. However, there are some effects to electronic age on the children. For instance, being cold and unsocial, self-confidence problems, and losing communication skills are some of the effects on the children.

  There are some causes of the electronic age.  Firstly, people’s requirements never end and they need more and more. So, their dissatisfy feelings bring about producing something new and as their imagine. Moreover, the other cause of electronic age is superiority competition between countries.  Mostly every country show their power to the other country  in different ways. Some of them prefer making war, but some of them prefer showing their intelligence and creativity. So, If one country make something new, the other also try more superior thing to do. For example, Internet was found because of the cold war between  America and Russia. The final cause of passing electronic age is increasing population rate universally. Because of the increasing population, sources are getting consume. For example, the forests are disappeared  throughout centuries, because of the overconsumption of the objects related to the increasing population. Thanks to the electronic age, people draw on writing with their computers or their technological devices rather than papers and pencils.

  There are not only causes of the electronic age, but also it has some  effects on the children. First of all, there is a big problem to be addictive of it especially for children. The electronic tools can be the direction of children’s life. They prefer using electronic devices in early ages.And they play some games or make connections with their friends via internets rather than spending time with their friends. So, the new generation grow up to become colder. Also, they grow up with less self-confidence across the other children or people because of lack of experience with face to face communication, they are getting shy.  Moreover, related to this circumstance, children lose their communication skills. Because they talk with their friends via computer screen or cell phones. So they cannot use their gestures, body languages, or they cannot prefer to look their friends eyes.

  To conclude, the electronic age is important for the people and it supports comfortable life. There are some causes to pass electronic age and there are some negative effects when children use it unconsciously. It can be useful for children, when they use it limitedly because of preventing addictive feelings.