Technological innovation is very important for progress in all fields of life. Think, for example, of what the invention of the steam engine meant for transportation, the invention of the printing press for culture, and the invention of penicillin for health, finding . However, the misuse and abuse of ICTs has negative effects on people of all ages, especially adolescents.

When we forget that technology is for man (and not man for technology); when technological resources cease to be seen as a means and become an end, a dependence is created staff that often ends in addiction.

Who are the adolescents with the highest risk of ICT addiction? They are "those who demand more affection, who do not know how to overcome difficulties and who present an attitude of leave self-esteem in the face of life's challenges. This inability to excel and this need for recognition from their peers, leads them to seek small successes and satisfactions that make them forget their difficulties in real life. And so they will surrender themselves submissively into the arms of virtual reality, which is much more gratifying". (Castell, P. and Bofarull, I.: Enganchados a las pantallas).

Parents often ask how to prevent the risk of their children acquiring addictive behaviors in the use of new technologies. I suggest the following five measures.

1-Limit the places and times for the use of ICT. For example, do not use the cell phone during family meals;

2-Supervise Internet use habits; find out which social networks children use and what they use them for; 

3-Suggest that they be very cautious about what they post on the networks, since anyone can access this information;

4- Use content filters that prevent access to inappropriate pages;

5-Use alarms that indicate to Username that it is past its time and that it should disconnect.

Behind the abuse of new technologies lies the influence of a postmodern sociocultural phenomenon: the idolatry of technical power, linked to the myth of technology as a factor core topic of indefinite progress.

Contemporary man tends to look for models to imitate in both machines and people. This phenomenon is not entirely new: the clock appeared before Newton imagined the world as a large clock-like mechanism.

Currently, the computer is proposing ideas about man: about the way he learns, thinks and makes decisions. There are computers that function as neural networks, similar to those of the human brain.

Technology is no longer seen as an instrument to subdue the world; it is now presented as a paradigm for man, to the point of granting it a salvific dimension. Through technology, some men try to escape from an unhappy existence by forgetting themselves, their human condition.

In today's super-technified society, man is constantly exposed to a temptation: to act as machines do (with the same precision, efficiency and performance). When he succumbs to this temptation, man becomes a technical animal, an automaton. Technical humanism, technical pride, is one of the causes of modern atheism.

The technique that tries to overcome human nature only leads to the annihilation of man, to his ceasing to be a subject and becoming a useful object.

The true function of technique is to free man from some material activities that bind him, in order to facilitate his spiritual development ; it is to put his hand on things in order to possess them by the spirit.

For Gustave Thibon, "man needs action, but he must make it compatible with contemplation if he wants harmony in his life. He must see to it that action does not reach that interior exhaustion in which man, dispossessed of what he is, becomes a slave to what he does".

It is not a question of devaluing technology, but of integrating it into the framework of what man is.

Some words of John Paul II addressed to the university professors and students of his time already warned of the danger of falling into the reductionism of Education: "It is not enough to specialize young people for a official document; it is not enough to prepare technicians, but it is also necessary to form personalities. It is a matter of forming complete men and of presenting study and the professional work as means to find oneself and to realize the vocation that corresponds to each life".