Taking Break from Social Media to Focus on Relationship with God, Family

University of Wollongong technology expert Professor Katina Michael recently told ABC News that such statistics are alarming, as teens are not only exposed to the risk of addiction, there is also the fear of missing out on seeing things that are posted to social media.

"I think more and more adolescents are considering that the pressures of social media are so vast that it's best to get off," she said. "[Young people] need to be connected and feel they can't be disconnected, and a quarter of our teens are constantly connected and send about 150 texts per day."

She added, "We are seeing a huge wave of technology into our education systems, and it's allegedly supposed to be bettering our literacy levels and our maths and science skills, but what we see is the increase of technology actually decreases students' ability to read and speak to others clearly."

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