The new ICMPA study, "24 Hours: Unplugged," asked 200 students at the College Park campus to give up all media for 24 hours. After their 24 hours of abstinence, the students were then asked to blog on private class websites about their experiences: to report their successes and admit to any failures. The 200 students wrote more than 110,000 words: in aggregate, about the same number of words as a 400-page novel.

he American Psychological Association (APA) says that an addicted individual may experience physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms when the addiction is taken away.

majority of kids and teens spend about 75% of their waking lives attached to a screen of some sort

Accountability has gone out the window with the rise of technology and the web.

around 30% of accidents are caused by texting while driving.

For example, a teenager's "sext" to a friend is released into cyberspace; embarrassing or illegal behavior is recorded on mobile phones and uploaded onto the Web; the sometimes tragic consequences of cyberbullying.

With the emergence of the Web, email, mobile phones with cameras, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, gossip web sites and online sleuths, there are newer, faster and more creative ways to have dreadful decision making illuminated for anyone with an Internet connection to see. Plus, these decisions have a much-longer "afterlife" because of the digital fingerprints that they leave and are so difficult to erase

the English language is being passed over for phonetic spelling and a random string of letters.

All concerns with being punctual have disappeared since you can now send a quick text saying that you aren’t going to make it on time.