Zykiia Bryant
Mr. Petro
Journalism
10,October

In the article “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” by Katie Hafner, the author talks about how texting is affecting teens. It also talks about problems that’s going with texting. It also point out things you can do to text less.

One of the problems that Katie Hafner brings up is that teens is texting to much and not worrying about their grades. For example in the article it says “The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation”. Another problem the author found was teens was depending on their parents though a text message to help them with the simple things instead of them trying to figure the problems out y them selves. For example “Now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers 15 times a day, asking things like, ‘Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?’” These are some problems the author pointed out in the article.

I think this articles is directed to all teens and in my opinion some teens can keep up their grades and go to bed on time for school the next day and still keep their phones while doing these things. I also think some teens is responsible enough to know when it’s time to text and when its time to get work done.

What made the author write this article? What made her directly point out teens for the most of this article? How she didn’t know that the girl just wanted a second opinion from somebody else?