Teenage Computer Addiction and Ways to Overcome It

    My mother likes reading articles about health in newspapers. When I was in high school, one night my mother told me that I should never sit before a computer for a long time without going to a toilet. Because a research revealed that many young people had been found with prostatitis for they played computers the whole day but seldom went to toilets. I was amazed with the severe influence of computer addition on health. But that is only one consequence among the numbers of bad impacts.

     Teenage computer addition is a big problem in China, especially in cities. You can find many teenagers in a net bar, some of whom even skip classes to enjoy themselves. Though we have laws to prevent children under 18 years old from entering the net bar, it is not carried out effectively in some places. Teenagers do not have work, so where to get money to let them continue staying in the bar is a problem. Sometimes this problem can lead them to stealing or robbing. What is worse, long-time staying before computers is bad for their health. Young people are the hope of the country. We cannot imagine what China would be like in the future with so many young computer addicts. So we must find out solutions to this serious problem. Students, parents, teachers and society all should take efforts to solve this problem.

    Sometimes when a teenager feels very lonely, and he cannot find any friend to share his sorrow with. He may turn to a computer for help. He could talk with a stranger on net and he could also play computer games to let himself forget his problems. Finally, he could be addicted to computer, because he finds he can be understood only on net.  The teenagers should see the positive aspects of our world and make friends with others in the real life.  At the same time, students should know that their main task is to study. If they are addicted to computers now, they should rebuild their interest in study. Perhaps they are not able to get a high mark in an exam, but they should never give up. Do not let your bad exam results be a reason of not studying but playing computers. 

    Except teenagers themselves, parents and teachers also have responsibility to solve this problem. They should know their proper roles in the growth of teenagers. They cannot only be superiors but they should be friends of teenagers. They should learn to understand and respect them. They should have more conversations with teenagers, which could let teenagers feel more comfortable at both home and school. Then they would like to stay at home or school rather than net bars and like to talk with real people not someone on net. At the same time, parents should care more about their children. They can also make a timetable for teenagers to control their time spent on computers.

    Only the efforts of teenagers, parents and teachers are not enough, but the society should also make contributions to solving this problem. Keeping teenagers under 18 out of net bars is a good policy, but it is difficult to be implemented totally. So the government should strengthen the surveillance on net bars. They can make the punishment on allowing teenagers in stricter for the owner of that bar. They can develop a computer system to control the time that one person spends on a computer continuously, too. Our society can also hold some activities to let teenagers take part in, which can make their spare time colorful and can disperse their attention on computers.

    Since computer addition is a serious problem not only for teenagers and their families but for the country. Everyone and the society should try their best to solve this problem.