Nama : Herman Aziz

Nim : F1C118032
Prodi : Kimia

Technology For Teens, Good or Bad?

Technology, today became one of the elements in the earth’s that grows very fast. Technology in
this context, is information and communication.
We, as modern human, at this time is no wonder anymore when seeing people using mobile
phones wherever they are. In taxis, markets, houses, and even when driving, people still use of
their phones.
One the other hand, we see that the use of technology is dominated by teenagers. They are very
quick to accept and understand how to use technology. There are many students from
elementary, junior high school, senior high school, and university that consistently using
technology ranging from mobile phones, computers, internet, and games.
Is technology good or bad? Technology is a group of devices that can be bad for the
development of teenager’s life.
First, many spread of information between technology devices is not filtered anymore.
Information, whether it’s bad or good, it quickly spreads from one device to another. As a result,
many teens are accessing p*rno*raphy and even addicted to access that bad content.
Various cases of s*xual harassment, r*pe, and pr*miscuity that exists among teenagers today,
many are caused by them who are very easy to access the bad content using the Internet.
Second, the addiction to the internet and games, makes the teens forget that they are social
creatures who must interact with others. I see many cases where people meet at a place, but they
do not talk; they just “chat” with their friends who are so far away. They prefer to interact online
using Facebook, Twitter, Path, Instagram, and other social medias rather than interacting in real
life by talking directly to the people who are near them.
This is a contrary ideology for us, the people of Indonesia. We should create a society that is
tolerant and caring with each other. When this situation continues, we will lose our identity.
Indonesian teenagers will grow up to be people who do not care about each other, do not like to
socialize, and do not even know the people around them.

However, although the technology has a devastating effect, behind this sophistication developed
by humans, of course, it has many good effects. First, technology is a device that is able to
increase the speed and effectiveness of information flow. We are no longer a conventional man
who must send a letter if we want to communicate with a long distance friend and we are no
longer human being who have to wait for days to get a reply message from a friend. Nowadays,
everything became easier because of technology. We are able to send messages using e-mail and
SMS within a few seconds. We are able to chat with old friends who haven’t met for a long time
while she or he lives far from where we live. We are able to chat with them using BBM,
Facebook, Whats Up Messenger, Line Messenger, and many more.
Second, technology is a very good business media campaign. We certainly recognize the
Internet, a medium of information that can be accessed by millions people from all over the
world, whenever and wherever they want. When the Internet is used to promote a product, then
there must be many consumers who come to buy the product. The marketing strategy by the
Internet, is also used by teens. I find that many high school or university students consistently
having a business by using Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or BBM. It is the
impact of technology that are very positive and should be supported by everyone. Using the
internet, a teenager does not need to have a big fund to make a business. They do not have to
prepare tens of millions to rent a place as a store. They just need to utilize their mobile phones to
sell and make money.
Technology, we know having the bad and the good effect for teenagers. To make them
understand on how to use it well, as parents, we must guide them continuously.

My opinion :

in my opinion the good or bad of a technology depends on how we use it. if we use the
technology properly and correctly and in accordance with the ideology of the country, the
technology will have an impact both for us and among the people and if the technology is used
for things that are not good such as committing crimes and spreading false news. and even now it
is a crime that pits between the government and the people.
in addition, many teenagers now use technology to open pornography sites and this can
create or trigger things that are not desirable, such as free sex, rape and sexual abuse, because
teenagers have a high sense of curiosity, so they are naturally but fall into things. hence the
importance of us or even families paying attention to children's education and association.
technology also has a good impact, for example, which makes it easier for us to communicate
and exchange information, find sources of learning and even those that are viral now are online
businesses. indeed, if we consider the adverse effects of technology, there are relatively many of
the good effects.
so the good or bad impact of a technology depends on each of us how we treat the
technology. so we as students use technology as well as possible and protect ourselves with good
knowledge and religion so that we are protected from technological abuse.