One might think that with the access to millions of people and information at our finger tips, we teenagers could do something substantial for the world, such as curing cancer. The convenience of social media is threatening generation-Y’s ability to focus and communicate. What used to be considered a luxury is now negatively affecting our brains and work ethic. We have constant access to social networking, reducing our ability to concentrate. This form of media has lowered our grammatical standards for conversation and our learning abilities. No wonder our parents’ generation is concerned for our future. Many researchers have determined that social media has negatively impacted our ability to concentrate. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook are the reasons we are constantly stuck in what some psychiatrists refer to as, the “Deer in the Headlights” era. [Dr. Laura Thomson http://drthomson.ca/] states, “Generation-Y has grown so accustomed to checking their social medias outlets, that they have become confused when there is an absence of them, like a deer in the headlights, they don’t know what to do with themselves” We only emerge from this state when another social media prompt triggers our attention. This explains our growing inability to resist notifications from social media sites that bombard us, and our constant desire to ‘multitask’. By multitask I really mean spending hours repeatedly clicking between Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and A Microsoft word document, while doing homework. Social networking is addictive; the addiction is recognized as a psychological disorder around the world. Our Facebook news feed will be the one thing we can focus on for more than eight-seconds because it’s always updating itself and showing us the newest information [”Attention Span Statistics." Statistic Brain. N.p., 16 May 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2012] I will be the first to admit that I am a “deer in the headlights”. I am addicted to social media. I find myself constantly checking my phone for notifi