In the past few decades, technology has become increasingly prevalent among teenagers. Personally, I believe that the advancement of technology can bring about young people’s sedentary lifestyle by making their daily lives more convenient.
On the one hand, due to the development of advanced technology in contemporary society, teenagers are likely to immerse themselves in the virtual world for innumerable reasons. Firstly, young people are often excessively exposed to digital devices, which often promotes their entertaining needs. As a result, they tend to spend a continual amount of time surfing the Internet, watching programmes instead of engaging in outdoor activities. Secondly, as the technology is becoming more advanced, young people can have a chance to work on electronic devices. These innovations in work may increase their time of sitting in front of technological appliances for accomplishing different tasks. This reduces regular physical activities because they can completely depend on technology, decreasing the need and time for participating in healthy sports and other activities.
On the other hand, teenagers are likely to utilize technology for daily activities. Since digital appliances have become ubiquitous, young people can stay at home while reliant on online platforms for regular needs such as shopping, and studying. For example, several shopping applications such as Shoppee, Tiki or online shopping pages on numerous platforms have appeared, which serve as methods for people’s needs to shop online without going outside. In addition, online learning programmes have been carried out for teens having a tendency to stay at home. Surfing for the Internet, they can easily access an abundant amount of information, which improves practical knowledge and broadens their horizons. They may even rely on high-tech webs like Artificial Intelligence to do homework and search for realistic events, which make them more inactive.
In conclusion, technology has significant effects on people’s lives in modern society, including causing their sedentary lifestyles. Therefore, they need to balance between using these devices and engaging in healthy activities to improve the physical well-being.