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write in MLA format. think of your own essay why you support your argumentative stance. this is where your awesome critical thinking skill come on. though you may not have all the support for them yet. however you may find sources that disagree with you. still great, this may cause you to change your mind or lead you in a different and exciting direction or it may cause you to disagree with his article in the essay. 3 pages long and the cite must be in different pageArticle retrieved from SIRS® Issues Researcher Article link: https://sks.sirs.com/webapp/article?artno=402864&type=ART Newspapers Lexile Measure: 1380L New York Times (New York, NY) Nov 21, 2017, p. A.27 Copyright © New York Times Company. Nov 21, 2017. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. How Evil Is Tech? By David Brooks Not long ago, tech was the coolest industry. Everybody wanted to work at Google, Facebook and Apple. But over the past year the mood has shifted. Some now believe tech is like the tobacco industry -- corporations that make billions of dollars peddling a destructive addiction. Some believe it is like the N.F.L. -- something millions of people love, but which everybody knows leaves a trail of human wreckage in its wake. Surely the people in tech -- who generally want to make the world a better place -- don't want to go down this road. It will be interesting to see if they can take the actions necessary to prevent their companies from becoming social pariahs. There are three main critiques of big tech. The first is that it is destroying the young. Social media promises an end to loneliness but actually produces an increase in solitude and an intense awareness of social exclusion. Texting and other technologies give you more control over your social interactions but also lead to thinner interactions and less real engagement with the world. As Jean Twenge has demonstrated in book and essay, since the spread of the smartphone, teens are much less likely to hang out with friends, they are less likely to date, they are less likely to work. Eighth graders who spend 10 or more hours a week on social media are 56 percent more likely to say they are unhappy than those who spend less time. Eighth graders who are heavy users of social media increase their risk of depression by 27 percent. Teens who spend three or more hours a day on electronic devices are 35 percent more likely to have a risk factor for suicide, like making a plan for how to do it. Girls, especially hard hit, have experienced a 50 percent rise in depressive symptoms. The second critique of the tech industry is that it is causing this addiction on purpose, to make money. Tech companies understand what causes dopamine surges in the brain and they lace their products with "hijacking techniques" that lure us in and create "compulsion loops." Snapchat has Snapstreak, which rewards friends who snap each other every single day, thus encouraging addictive behavior. News feeds are structured as "bottomless bowls" so that one page view leads down to another and another and so on forever. Most social media sites create irregularly timed rewards; you have to check your device compulsively because you never know when a burst of social affirmation from a Facebook like may come. The third critique is that Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are near monopolies that use their market power to invade the private lives of their users and impose unfair conditions on content creators and smaller competitors. The political assault on this front is gaining steam.