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ลำดับตอนที่ #62 : An anti-social experiment
BBC News School Report and BBC Radio 5 live have challenged
pupils at Tarporley High School to go through a digital detox. From last
Wednesday they agreed to give up all social media, YouTube and video games for
a week. Some adults - not me, I hasten to add - might think that was pretty painless. After all,
the pupils' phones were not being confiscated and they were still allowed to call, email or text.
But what this experiment has shown so far is just how central to
the lives of teenagers social networks and messaging tools have become. Three
of the Year-10 students have been reporting on the detox for School Report.
Here's what they say about the assembly where the idea was explained:
"The thought of having real conversations and maybe even
reading a book seems to be way too much to handle. Many hands are raised when
asked who uses games but pretty much everyone seems to use social media on a day
to day basis." One teacher tells the reporters he welcomes the experiment:
"Social media is becoming increasingly invasive, verging on obsessive."
But if your primary means of communication is taken away that is
bound to cause problems. Twenty five years ago, teenagers would have been
furious if they had been told they could not use the home telephone. Today,
taking away Snapchat or Facebook Messenger can provoke a similar reaction.
It was bad enough on school days, but the pupils had been dreading a weekend
without social media. So on Monday I spoke to three of the pupils to see how
they were getting on. Daisy, who's 14, said she had been quite positive about
the experiment in advance - she had worked out she had spent 16 hours on
Snapchat the previous week and was quite looking forward to not feeling the
pressure to check her phone all the time.
But she had found it hard over the weekend: "I had to turn
off notifications not to be tempted." She had rediscovered some old forms
of communication - sending emails to friends abroad, and even making phone
calls.
"I'm not totally obsessed, I do have a normal life,"
says 15-year-old Georgia about her use of social media. But beforehand she still
worried what her friends would think if she simply disappeared from social
media. Seeing that she had Snapchat messages that she could not open had been
really hard, but there has been an upside: "I've been looking at
newspapers and magazines," she says, "and talking to my parents about
other things than them being my taxi drivers!"
Patrick, who's 14 and spends a lot of time watching YouTube and
talking to friends while playing Fifa, had found the weekend painful. "I
was in the car and I must have picked up the phone 50 times and then put it
down." Organising meetings with friends had been difficult - he had to
phone them individually. "None of us speak on the phone or email. It's
more efficient to use things like Snapchat - it's cheaper and nobody is
listening."
Of the 1,000 pupils who started the digital detox, around a
quarter have so far admitted to giving up. Among them is Sam, who broke the
pledge when he was due to play tennis and didn't have the phone number of the
student he was due to meet. He never calls anyone and has no numbers stored in
his phone, so the only answer was to use Snapchat to make the arrangement.
It sounds as though most of the school's pupils will be mightily relieved when
the detox ends and they can return to the modern communications era. But the
Tarporley High School librarian might like the experiment to continue - she
says she has never seen as many books borrowed as during the last week.
hasten (v.)
to make something happen sooner or more quickly:
If you hasten to do something, you quickly do it
If you hasten to say something, you want to make it clear:
confiscate (v.)
to take a possession away from someone when you have the right to do so, usually as a punishment and often for a limited period, after which it is
returned to the owner:
assembly (n.)
a group of
people, especially one that meets regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, the process of coming together, or the state of
being together:
one
of the two parts of the government that makes laws in
many US States:
a meeting in a school of
several classes, usually at the beginning of the school day,
to give information or to say prayers together
the process of putting together the parts of a machine or structure
the structure produced by this process:
verge on sth
(v.) to come close to being or becoming the stated thing:
Dread (v.)
to feel extremely worried or frightened about something that is going to happen or that might happen
used to
say that you do not want to think about something because it is too worrying:
beforehand (adv.)
earlier (than a particular time):
mightily (adv.)
with great
efffort
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