Opinion-Editorial Piece

         The ability to use technology has had a huge impact on our everyday lives. There's cellphones, televisions, the internet, social media, computers, and many other things. All of these things we use the majority of our time. Technology has many different uses. The bad thing is that we don't always use it for the right reasons. I believe that technology has become a big distraction especially in the lives of high school teens.
         First of all, there's the whole cellphone crisis. Teens are constantly using their cellphones during class and are not paying attention. This problem has become so bad that it's even become a rule on school campuses to not be able to use cellular devices during class. This still doesn't stop students from using them though. It's so easy to just reach for your cellphone in your pocket and play a game or start texting somebody when you get bored in class. It's not only a problem at school but also at home. While doing homework, you can easily get hooked on to your phone. I know this from my own experience and believe me when I say that it is sometimes hard to just let go of your phone and focus one hundred percent on what you're doing. The notifications from games and texts don't help at all either. But this isn't the only distraction there is.
         Gaming consoles are also a huge distraction. If you had the choice of picking whether to start your homework or play video games, most people would pick video games. I'm not going to lie. Video games are very entertaining. I mean the whole reason they're created for is for entertainment. It sometimes becomes so hard to focus on school when you have the choice of picking up the controller and start playing. I'm not saying that playing video games is all bad. It's just that most people get easily distracted with this. 
         There are some upsides to technology. For one thing, it has made education a little more enjoyable. There's educational games for elementary students and also power points that make information better to receive than just reading it off of a textbook. Technology is not all bad. Technology has opened gates to many new advantages but the same there's benefits, there are distractions. It's because of those distractions that many people even begin to dislike technology 
         Technology can be put to good uses. It's just that us high school teens don't really use it for good reasons. As long as there are distractions, this is always going to be a problem. Hopefully we come with a way to use technology not only for it's distractions but for its advantages as well.