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.
(Goldwasser, 667) Even people who can’t spell can text because everything is either abbreviated, or the device understands the word trying to be spelled so it finishes it for you. This requires no thinking skills, and we can just hope that after seeing it many times that it finally gets memorized. This is a major reason why young people today may struggle. People need to learn how to become more proactive in what they do. Lessing, an 88-year-old women puts in good terms that the internet has “seduced a whole generation into its inanities.”
Because of this your teacher will never get to know you. You guys will never develop a bond that could produce countless stories. Even though she would've been a great source for a recommendation letter if she had. And instead of paying attention to your boyfriend during your date, you sit across from him on you iPhone texting him and several others. Of course he'll never know your eye color because you’re on my phone 24/7, but at least he knows your Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr name.
In modern day society social networking has worked its way into the lives of millions of adolescents, taking a permanent place, becoming something that many teens would say they couldn’t live without. Our youth is becoming dependent on social networking sites such as facebook, myspace, twitter and pinterest. It is time to limit how involved the youth today is with social networking. The scientific community has only just begun to discover the various risks and benefits associate with social media and the ways in which it is changing everything from human interaction to childhood development. Dr. Larry D. Rosen of the California State University psychology department has been studying the effects of technology on people for more than 25 years.
Online chat sites are another way technology is working its magic. Kids, teens and adults go on these online chatting websites and often finding themselves staying on these websites for hours, or even days at a time, severely limiting their real human interactions. People with a great family and great friends go on these chat websites and waste away their lives talking to a screen. The internet and the technology we use to access it are a way for people to hide from their real life problems. When people go on the internet, they feel like they can say whatever they want, mostly because they don’t have to say it to anyone’s face.
Not too many years ago, it was not uncommon to see children turning in hand written assignments, but in today’s society it seems having computer access both at school and at home is a necessity. Teachers are no longer accepting a handwritten paper as a final draft. In today’s education, most students do not even turn in a hard copy of their final papers. With services such as Turnitin and online classrooms which rely on forums like BlackBoard, many
His foundation “People for Children” raises public awareness and influences public policy makers on issues such as child pornography, prostitution, and labor servitude. These three industries are said to generate $10 billion annually. In 2006, his foundation worked closely with Microsoft on a campaign that promoted child internet safety. Along with technology development, the need for stronger regulations on the internet to prevent exploitation of children is crucial. In this essay, I would like to discuss how the internet has facilitated the use of child pornography despite the many efforts to combat this unscrupulous market.
If we lie all the time we will start to have a brain that is tailor made to make lying easier (Neulieb). It is evidence like this that has made people ask the question of what role the internet may have in changing the way our brain works. One of these questions that has been brought up a lot recently is how it is effecting the way we are learning things. The internet has taken the place of books for the most part because the internet is such a powerful tool that most people who are in school have access to. With all this access to information at an extremely fast rate books have become something that people look past because it seems too time consuming in the fast pace world we live in.
Leeban Ali March 28, 2012 As a student who attends high school I believe that cell phones should not be allowed during school hours! Also most of the students have it out and texting during class. Cell phones are becoming more and more of a disruption to the learning progress of students. This will have major affect on them in the long run because when it comes to tests and exams they won’t know what to do. People say that students can use their phones for emergencies at school but they can just make a phone call in the office.
Scientists proved that holding a cell phone while driving makes a crash 4 times likely, and 70% of children 7 to 18 years old have accidently encountered online pornography, often through web search while doing their homework. Internet nowadays is one of the most common things people use daily and over several hours, and those facts are shocking to our societies since teens and children are in danger at home of just using a screen with network. The beneficial use of internet are lots and lots it could be used through work, learning, or just having fun through communicating with abroad relatives. Cyberterrorism turned internet to a hunting yard where crimes like hacking, black-market dealing, and sexual predators are attacking. Those crimes