It seemed his thirst for relief overpowered his reasoning. He held four arguments that supported Spyware being used. The first told that trusting your child can border on negligence when dealing with the internet (Coben). He implies that access to an adult’s private documents that are held on a computer might not be safe in the hands of the son or daughter. However, this problem can be solved by simply buying your child his own computer or adding additional users and password protection for the administrator.
Through years of intense research on consumers and their children, corporations have identified our decision making processes. In other words, they don’t know us, but they know what makes us tick. Business advertising practices that target young people should be banned because they have an adverse effect on today’s youth. Companies target children in their advertisements because they carry their own consumer
His primary arguments seemed to be examples of his own difficulties. He states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy…That’s rarely the case anymore.” He continues to write of how his mind starts to wander after a few pages, and he looks for something else to do; reading has become a struggle. Carr says the culprit is the Internet itself, basing his accusation on how in today’s society we can obtain information after just a few minutes on the Net. The media today has started to give us information in as limited amount of words they can allow, so we as users can skim the information we desire then move onto the next sliver of info. He believes our minds have been altered to expect all information the way the Net hands it out: “in a swiftly stream of moving particles,” as he put it.
Carr thinks that the net makes people dumper because he proved the net makes people scattered and superficial thinkers. I agree with Carr. Until I read this article, I was thinking the internet makes people smarter but the scientific evidence turned my thought. In additional on his thought, I think the net wastes a lot of time of our lives. Carr said that “ People who are continually distracted by emails, alerts and other messages understand less than who are able to concentrate.” (qtd line 9).
"I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening, and I noticed physically, that I began to fidget, as if I was addicted to my iPod and other media devices, and maybe I am." Students are addicted to Social media and technology; students are multi-tasking and their class grades are suffering because of it. The study – “24 Hours Unplugged” -- was conducted by the University of Maryland’s ICMPA in late February and early March. Researchers found that American college students struggle to function without their media connection to the world. Researchers explained, "We were surprised by how many students admitted that they were 'incredibly addicted' to media," said Susan D. Moeller.
He states that even as a writer his mind struggles to keep focused on a book, something that is new to him. He blames this on the internet, which he describes as “The perfect recall of silicone memory” (2). He uses his friends as examples, stating that “..many are having similar experiences” (2). While impossible to tell if this fiction or not, one can reason that he’s most likely stating fact. Carr does bring up facts from a London study where results suggest that internet readers aren’t reading in traditional methods and that they do not absorb the text that they are reading.
Being victimized also increases their chances of harassing peers online themselves. The research also revealed that 68 percent of cyberbullying victims spoke up about their harassment to friends, parents or other authority figures. (Michele L. Ybarra, 2006
Vidding – Free Expression or Copyright Piracy? Instructor: Amy Goffinet BUS250: Corporate and Social Responsibility Lilia Rios October 06, 2013 Vidding is the practice of making new videos, sometimes called songvids or fanvids, which takes existing clips, usually from different sources (Lawrence & Weber, 2011). Many people do not know that viding is something that we do or use everyday, not taking into consideration that we may be breaking the law on others intellectual property. Personally, if you do not make any profits off it then you are not breaking the law in any way. If you are uploading stuff onto the internet, then that is a form of expression of one’s free speech because
First, he mentions some advantages of net, such as convenience, interest, and conciseness. However, due to these advantages of network, Carr finds himself unable to concentrate on reading a whole passage, instead, he is used to seek the interest word and to skim the whole passage. A lot of examples are used to prove that Carr is not the only one who is experiencing this situation. Take one from the examples Carr mentions, Scott Karp, a man who used to work for magazine has stopped reading books since he is accustomed to only spot the fun part of the passage on internet, which is impossible to abstain in reading a long passage. There are also some people prefer this net reading to the traditional books.
Jon Elorriaga Dr. Patrick Muana English 1301 Reading Response 3 25 May 2012 A Critical Reading of Michael Bugeja’s “Facing the Facebook” In “Facing the Facebook” Michael Bugeja discusses the various problems associated with the use of Facebook especially in educational institutions. Many educational institutions invest increasing amounts of money in technology with the idea of enhancing learning through research. That students actually waste their study hours on Facebook and get distracted in class because of Face book is an indication that those institutions are wasting their money. Although many professors have yet to find out about Facebook and about its impact on students, educational institutions as a whole are looking for ways to stop students from accessing it, especially during school hours. Another important downside to Facebook, Bugeja notes, is that it creates an egocentric environment – what he mentions as “egocasting” in his essay.