Description of the Problem

So, what exactly is the problem?

Younger generations have grown up in a society embedded in technology.

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Children are placed in unconscious situations that already submerges them in the unknown world. Their parents have already created a social footprint on different social media platforms.

With the rapidly increasing interconnected cyberspace of information, the world is getting smaller and smaller.

How is this an issue?

This indicates that these younger generations face the problem of lacking the ability to detach from social permanent linkages that they have created from people all-across the globe; and even the ones they continue to create.

This has the potential of evolving the complexity of the human mind. Harsh in the context of the truth, but without being discussed many young individuals feel as if they lack the creative nature and ambition to be productive.

Interpersonal problems also develop, where individuals feel as if they are less, or they can be doing more. Social media adds pressure on the youth and younger people start questioning themselves as individuals (Guinta).

Why is it important? Should we even care?

Young people are the future and the saviors of tomorrow. And when social media and networking has become as massive as it is, the thought of tomorrow can wait after this post or meme.

Being constantly connected and open to the world around you can start to change the way people develop who they are.

"The center for collegiate mental health found that top three diagnoses on University campuses are anxiety, depression, and stress. Numerous studies from the US, Canada, the UK, you name it---have linked this high social media use with these high levels of anxiety and depression (Parnell)."

Ironically, constantly being connected and open to the world still can make people feel lonely.

The upcoming trends and fads are prominent in staying relevant in this generation. Keeping up with what's going to happen next is important, and social media has made that very easy. Dependency starts to formulate, and when we're stuck in a pickle, Google can help us navigate through it.

Spending less time retaining the information or critically thinking about the application to real life-situations.

And it get's deeper than that!

"Other members of the popular press have reported that the trend toward digit communications has resulted in students who are lonely in crowds of thousands because they have substituted authentic, face-to-face relationships with virtual friendships (through texts, Facebook, and Instagram) that are void of emotional nourishment (Cain)."

Younger people are growing in a fashion where their livelihood is judge or analyzed in the process, where these individuals suffer from social anxiety, social awkwardness, and depression.

When the connections that are made are no longer deep in nature, the sense of loneliness and depression soon fall after. A barrier is built between an individual and another just through the means of technology.

This inhibits overall growth of an individual and sets them off in a downward spiral of sulking within the most common problems that people face, and even the new challenges that technology adds. The future becomes less important, and there is a comfort zone with an isolated bubble of a technological driven space.

The importance is that the future depends on the youth to not only face the challenges that the previous generations have pushed into the world, but also having the ability to self-reflect and question the progress of which their lives are in stake.

There growth is stunted by the connected world. This needs to be addressed now!