Please use about 400 words to explain your observation on how young adult are being affected by the theory and personal technologies.

GROWING UP CONNECTED: NEW PERSONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT Effects and critical cultural researchers and theorists alike have undertaken series study of youthful use of personal technologies-smartphones, tablets and social working me (SNS). We will devote part of several upcoming chapters to the chal lenges these new and emerging technologies pose forman communication theory Here, though, we address some growing areas of interest, pecifically as they rele 10 individuals use of those technologies. First, as we've seen earlier in this chapter effects research has demonstrated a wide variety of harmful effects brought about by young people's interaction with screens rather than with other human. The new personal communication technologies carry with them the same set of concerns--for eam ple, reduced human contact, especially with parents and peers and a lack of stimula tion from the natural environments Consumption data suggest these concen warranted. Apple and Google offer rm of thousands of kid apps with names such as Baby Place and mes Birthday, and just under two thirds of American parents admit giving their children a smartphone or tablet to keep them busy (Richter. 2013) Ninety five percent of American teens have a smartphone or 10 t, and while daim it keeps them more connected with their friends nearly half way they are owes whelmed by the drama" they experience online Anderson & fang 2018). More than half of youthful smartphone user acknowledge that they spend too much time their devices (hang, 2016) And perhaps leaving the technology behind might be wine 216 THEORIES OF VEDIA AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT et sech has discovered that people's contention to the with its attendant cognitive distraction and reduced stationen duced physical alterations in walking ultimately impacting into chadeh It may compromise safety Lamberg & Murano 2012. p. 655 Other medical March shows that young adults' excessive use of smartphones and tables the head constantly crane downward toward the screen is causing the under of boney protuberances--someshing akin sicking out from the above the neck (Shahar & Sayers, 2016) While mich social scientific interessen on time-cery with is one minute len with a humanids need tops, nos appa-thembject of in the way young people interact and identify with these technologia al much inquiry Forecample, Adrian Ward and his colleagues demanded the per tion of the brain drain hypothesis, noting that the mere presence of onele phone may crupy limited capacity cognitive They served that ucts are successful at maintaining sustained hentions whes wing tation to check their phones-the mere presence of the devices duces cognitive capacity (Ward, Duke, Cheezy Bow 2017, p 140. In other word because users are forcing themselves to not think about their phone their capacity to focus on what they are actually doing is diminished. Moreover, as meninas y depe dent on their phones, they come to see them as extensions of them. A according to Seunghee Han. Kitoon Kim, and lang yun Kim 2017 Thermo likely to get attached to the devices which in turn leads to homophobia by high ening the phone proximity seeking ndency (419) Nomophobia the feeling of discomfort or anxiety caused by the ability of a mobile device abling habitual virtual communication (419) The easiest path to among discomfort Reconnection But not all analysis of these technologies is so pessimistic with the focusing on the technologies' ability to expand opportunities for action beyond what might otherwise be available to some users. For example. Sherid Jason Martin, and Shanyang Zhan (2009) discovered that racial and this use Facebook to present "highly social culturally explicit and laborated of self to reflect a certain resistance to the racial silencing of minorities by dom color blind ideologies of broader society (158) Likewise, ton Boket and Deb Oswald (2010) demonstrated that online social networking services may wide a comfortable environment within which shy individuals can insect with the (p. 873). There is even evidence that online dating service because they expand the circle of people user typically interact with have produced an increase in the of interracial marriages over the last two decades in the United States (Omega revich 2017 Effects and critical researchers alike are also investigating the developmentally important issues such as the online building and maintenance of the tion of friendship and community and the interaction of technology and chic mest as a prelude to that inquiry an obvious questions to be added why do people use social networking sites to race with other, especially when dance isn't a facort Given that there are more than two billions on Facebook there must be some gratification in online interactions with them to the