Summary: In the article “Online Friendship” wrote by Jan Farrington describes how the online touch the real life world, how teenagers use the Internet to keep in touch with their friends, and how to secure the information when the people spend time online. The most teenagers think social networking and IM are the easy way to help them stay connected and keep in touch with their friends, so they spend a lot of time linked in cyberspace or they use IM to keep in touch with their friends etc. For example: Lauren B said that attends in a high school she has so many friends, and she never saw each other during the day, so she and her friends used IM to everybody after school. Sometimes the parent worry about online world is talking over teen social life, and they bring the problem in their real life to continuous in the social life. For example Laurent B said that life online wasn’t always friendly, there were a lot of gossip.
However, text messaging has been a major problem with students texting in class interfering with the disruption of their learning. Most teachers express how they feel about cell phones being a distraction to others, however very few students have complaints about the use of cell phones in class. Text messaging in class should be allowed by choice of the students, it can easily be discreet and the possibility of an emergency. Text messaging in class should be allowed by the choice of students. In the argument “Tapping into Text Messaging” by Janet Kornblum, says teens, techies and other early adopters leading the charge to text say it is a great way to communicate when they are too busy to talk or when making a call would be rude or impractical.
I agree with her in the senses that were losing something human when we substitute technology for face-to-face contact. Online relationships take longer to develop, because you can’t become emotionally attached to someone. In person you know what mood they are in and what’s on their mind, but technology erases that. You also lose visual contact. Recently I started to work at Texas Roadhouse and constantly notice couples on their phones rather then interacting with each other.
Most students who are allowed to use cell phones use them for social media, and recreational apps, distracting to the point of the whole educational system; learning.. Instead of being used as educational tools, cell phones are used by students as a source of distraction and not for the academic uses they have, and students do not listen even after they are told to stop, and given rules and guidelines about what is allowed to be done on the cell phones (Kiema, Kinjo, 2015). Cell phones will end up as another classroom distraction to students without administration, so students can decide not to pay attention whenever they want and continue to talk to each other on social media. 2 On the topic of communication between students, cell phones are also the facilitator of cheating on tests between students, and they are usually also used for plagiarism, when students take an author’s work and call it their own. Students can easily use text messaging features of a cell phone to share test answers, silently and undetectable by the teacher in most cases
A good solution might be to block the access to websites such as Facebook, so that technology can continue to be a tool for knowledge and intellectual advancement, rather than socialization. Many friends of mine use Facebook on a daily basis for several reasons: to chat with other friends, to see what other people’s lives look like, or to keep in contact with people that live far away. All five of the friends I asked said Facebook is a very useful website, but it is also addicting and a waste of time most of the time. Works Cited Bugeja, Michael. “Facing the Facebook.” The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections.
Positives with the Internet and Growing Up The youth generation today uses the internet so much in their daily lives it has created an epidemic. The epidemic caused uproar of different ways of learning, communicating, teaching and even shopping or advertising done online. Technologies such as ipad, laptops and smart phones make internet access unbelievably easy. Since it is so easy, “Growing up Online”, a document by Frontline that aired on Januarary 18, 2008, claimed that the internet has caused many issues in the youth’s lives. One problem the internet caused stated in the documentary is, it is very hard for parents and authorities to regulate what kids do on the computer.
In the essay, Turkle explains that the internet and BlackBerry phones are absorbing all of our time and attention. She says these media devices reduce our natural ability to form relationships and be social with one another. When people are together, they now divide their attention between the person they are with and their Blackberry or mobile device.Turkle stresses that the growing trend of constantly carrying a cell phone can have a negative impact on children. They no longer have to experience being completely alone or finding their way because parents are on speed dial to help them in an instant. The reading Me Against the Media, by Naomi Rockler-Gladen, addresses the issue of naturalized consumerism.
Have they all just become dangerously lazy? Is it something in the water? Are the schools to blame? It’s a good thing students are forced to do a minimum amount of community service hours in order to graduate otherwise many students wouldn’t gain a sense of civic responsibility or build lifelong habits of helping others. Teenagers of America are obsessed with social networking sites and online gaming.
Unpopular View of iPads in the Classroom It this day of age, it may seem as though Apple products are taking over the world. Mostly every where you go, you will see someone either on their iPhone 5 or iPod touch, exploring the many uses of their technology device. For many years now, cellular devices and MP3 players have been banned from schools, in fear of the students either cheating or being too distracted to learn. However, new shocking information has proved that one apple product may actually be helpful in a classroom setting. The major question to ask nowadays is whether or not iPads are helpful in the classroom setting, or hurtful for the students learning experience.
How is shutting our bedroom doors and sitting constantly on our devices like robots considered to be “socialising”. For an average teenager, seven hours a day is used consuming media, and surfing the web. Do you find yourself constantly logging onto Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, or being ignored by people who are? I myself admit to being a fan of social media. I like being able to connect with my friends and family through these social media sites, and know what is happening around the world at all hours of the day, However, this also means its all easy to fall victim to the alternating nature of the internet.