Of course technology has advanced over the years and there is no way around it. It has increasingly become a necessity in people's lives, and most people own a smartphone and can't do without it. People who lived in the 90s lived in the era where sending letters was the primary means of communication, but now all it takes is a few presses of a button for someone to immediately receive your message. Not everyone will understand the struggle and process of sending letters and in the distant future will letters even exist? Nowadays, the only reason to send letters or anything would be to deliver packages or communicate with someone who doesn't use technology. Getting However, the method of communication can now be considered less personal. So answering the question at hand, how children's lives have been transformed by new technologies, is quite complex. Children being born now are born in areas where technology is present everywhere. Children's lives have been/can be transformed for the better but undoubtedly also for the worse. I will look at the effects of technology on children by discussing how it has changed the way we play and how it can have positive and negative effects, how it has changed the way we speak and the effect it has on children's behaviour. I will discuss in more depth the negative aspects technology has on children, from health issues to cyber. Nowadays, having a smartphone is an essential need; one in five people in the world owns a smartphone (Heggestuen, 2013). People take out their phones in every situation, cause and lack of face-to-face contact. This is the problem, children's lives are transforming and growing up in a generation where communicating through a social network is the social norm. And this dependency has led children to mature faster than other generations (Hoollaston, 2014). Even children's games began to be surrounded by my technology. There are many toys that include a space to insert an iPhone or iPad, so from the first year of birth the child is already introduced to technology. They cannot experience life without a screen unless their parents decide. The way children play these days is to watch something on a screen and play games on a tablet of some kind. Children spend more time indoors than outdoors on the playground and get muddy and bruised. Before, children had nothing but to hang out on the playground and play tag, ride bikes, and have imaginary friends (Rowan, 2013). They don't get to practice the real life of being a child; technology limits their creativity and imagination. However, the use of technology may end up being the way it's meant to be