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Summary
===In this article is says that most kids rather play games, text and be on the computer. According to this article, more kids do those things instead of doing the work they are supposed to be doing. In this article this 17 year old should have finished his book Kurt Vonnegut's //Cat's Cradle,// but he didn't. In two months he only read 43 pages because he decided to text and get online. He says, “On the internet, you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.” Students have always faced distraction and time-wasters because they spend to much time on either the cellphone or on the computer. Some examples are, Facebook, twitter, my space,you tube and yahoo. For the phone wise its the same just adding one thing and that's texting.===


 * Matt Ritchel, the author of //The New York Times// article //"Growing up Digital, wired for Distraction",// "Unchecked use of digital devices can create a culture in which students are addicted to the virtual world and lost in it."**

Dr.Rich, says he believes that young, developing brains are becoming habituated to distraction and to switching tasks, not to focus


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Facts: In an experiment at the German Sport University in Cologne in 2007 boys from 12 to 14 spent an hour each night playing video games after they finished homework.
===At the [|University of California, San Francisco], scientists [|have found] that when rats have a new experience, like exploring an unfamiliar area,===