The Dangers Of The Internet

The Internet Age has become a time in which computer technology has not been envisioned as a luxury, but rather a necessity in many parts of daily living. And as the positive impacts of technology use in the workplace, and education setting, becomes a reality then so does the negative consequences. However, the ability to deal with the negative consequences may be more difficult to deal with for adolescents and young adults who heavily use technology for social media, text messaging, and web surfing. As these impressionable sectors of society learn to navigate their place in the world with the aid of technology, they are experiencing an inordinate amount of

The author of the book The Dumbest Generation is concerned over young Americans and what the digital age is doing to them. Throughout the book he cites many percentages of young Americans who are dropping out of high school and college and he blames the digital era for it. The author loves the idea of traditional values and routine and he believes that due to the amount of technology that is rising, it is killing off those core values that students need in order to grow and stay productive. He also claims that younger adults abuse their time, and their priorities compared to the older generation have changed significantly. The reasons that he gives because of these changes are due to the digital media and the advances of technology that have gone up quickly within a few years. This results in adolescent teenagers who are abusing their time over the web. Instead of trying to study and learn they are on Facebook and other social networks.

Technology has advanced a lot more in the past century than it has over a million years. There is millions of new advancements found every day, however, this is making the younger generation a lot less knowledgeable. In the book The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerkein, it states that the teens today are the dumbest generation to live on the planet. It is commonly believed that the young generation is the least knowledgeable generation because of their great reliability on technology, constant distraction by technology, and negative media influences. Although technology helps to make one’s everyday life a lot easier, it is taking away one’s intelligence.

It has become common today to dismiss different perspectives, such as Danah Boyd’s, that teenagers aren’t the ones responsible for themselves constantly being on the internet, but society is the one to blame. Many people assume that teenagers have put themselves in the position of being addicted to the internet, yet Danah Boyd complains in her article, “Blame Society, Not the Screen Time”, that, “We put unprecedented demands on our kids, maxing them out with structured activities, homework and heavy expectations.” In making this comment, Danah Boyd argues that adults continuously add stress and pressure to teenagers, which then results in teenagers resorting to the internet as a way of socializing. For many, the internet is simply an escape.

The digital revolution provides miraculously quick and effortless contact with information, wares, amusements, and friends. (Source 1) You’re not going to have much trouble searching up information because, with just one click, you’ll gather all the information you need. The Internet has made our lives easier by giving us feedback on what we search up. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after. (Source 4) We don’t worry much about not knowing a certain topic because we know we’ll find within a few seconds. Therefore those under age thirty are “the dumbest

The internet is something that has affected the last few generations. Today's students are affected immensely because they are young, impressionable, and exposed to many more resources through the internet. In Andrea Lunsford’s article, “Our Semi-Literate Youth? Not So Fast,” she and her research team prove that, when used wisely, the internet is not harming students and enhancing their writing skills. In Nicholas Carr's article, “Hal And Me,” he writes through personal and second hand experiences about how the internet is reducing people's ability to absorb information. Many people have different opinions on technology. The ongoing debate is whether or not the internet is affecting people, mostly the younger generations, in a bad way or in a good way.

The article "The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?" written by Cathleen Cleaver is a clear claim of the necessity of government regulation to control what is being shown on the Internet. To support her claim, Cleaver gives the pornographic web sites as an example. She argues that the regulations used to control the selling of pornography applied to porn stores, magazines, and television should also be applied to the Internet. The reason for such necessity is that it is impossible to control who is actually accessing such web sites. Following this reason, Cleaver's main claim in the article is that children can access pornographic web sites on the Internet. This claim is clearly stated by

A small portion of the teenage population actually use the internet for educational or informational purposes. A larger part uses internet for entertainment and gossip. Entertainment is not necessarily a bad thing, but when someone is constantly on it and not paying attention to the outside world things can get chaotic. If a teenager has a test in school and instead of studying they watch TV or play on their phone there is a chance that person is going to fail instead of pass. Teenagers the main group of society that is always on some type of device that uses wifi or the internet. Since teenagers will often have summer jobs, they are probably going to get on

A key aspect of how the internet use of the internet should not be limited is the knowledge.The internet is growing and becoming more advanced every day that we as humans cannot keep up. By teens using the internet, we would gain knowledge about the internet, for example, finding out what source is credible and also, becoming more aware of websites that could possibly be harmful to our computers. All these factors could be helpful in the future. For example, in an online article "10 great things teen learn "playing" online" by Christy Matte, it states that "Viruses, limited computer space browser crashes are all realities of time spent online. Learning to prevent and/or cope with this issue is fundamental in becoming a savvy computer user. As kids explore on the computer, they are picking up valuable information about this practice." ( source 2). Teens could learn a lot from just simply using the internet. Websites that could teach teens about harmful websites and

When surfing the web do you ever stop and think of the possibilities you have at your fingertips? Using the internet every day is a luxury we have, we could research things that we've never even thought about. Having a way to get Internet at all times is a very important for this generation. There might be some people complaining that their kids spend too much time alone in the internet and they get antisocial, but in my opinion, the internet is one of the most important tools for a teenager today.

The internet can greatly assist a person, but can cause more damage than help. Ninety-Five percent of teens use the internet in America, today. The internet causes loss of sleep, dangerous communication with strangers, viruses, bugs, inappropriate content for minors, cyberbullying, and much more.

Internet safety has been an extensive issue for children and adolescents since accuse to the Internet has become readily available in homes. With Internet use increasing at such rapid rates and a large proportion of adolescents using the Internet daily, the awareness of Internet safety should be addressed. The term Internet safety can be defined as “the knowledge of maximizing an individuals safety to private information, and self protection from using the Internet”. The impact and influence that the Internet has on adolescent life is far-reaching and research findings by Norris (2007) indicate that one-quarter of the American youth that go online at home, do so in the privacy of their rooms. Additionally, with the recent trend of wireless connections there has been a profound expansion in private Internet usage. The diverse means by which adolescents are using the Internet has become coupled with inherent risks of unsupervised and uneducated use.

First, Teenagers depend on technology so much that it discourages critical thinking. The internet gives them shortcuts to just about everything, which causes them to not put their thinking cap on. For example, some math teachers teach their students how to input a math problem in a calculator that will do the work for them. This is not acceptable because they will not know how to solve it in a real life situation. Also, kids do not remember information anymore because they have a cell phone that will do the work for them. Cell phones can be a calendar, alarm, notebook, mailbox, camera, phone book, map, and just

We are going through some changes the Internet is changing our brains. We can go back a century ago where children would play outside and read from actual books and playing with toy. This New generation is constantly using electronics for everything we are not learning the same way and it's affecting the way the brain is developing at a younger age. It has become nearly impossible for us humans to get rid of our electronics. "If you grow dependent on your smartphone, it becomes a magical device that silently shouts your name at your brain at all times" (Meyer). Our brain is constantly reminding us that we need to check our phones. Technology is also affecting our memory. There's different ways in the way that the Internet is affecting our brain. "As our bodies are shaped by the food we eat, our brains are shaped by what we put into them. So of course, the internet is changing our brains." (476 Alderman). technology and the Internet have become like an agenda for us. We no longer must remember peoples phone numbers, or people’s emails, because we have all that in our electronic. Another way that it's affecting us, is through our youth children are learning differently now. Children no longer must pick up a physical book and start reading it they have access to that same book from their electronics, but the problem with that is that there's so many distractionss that they can start reading a book and end up playing a game and lose focus. Having technology in our hands makes it

I trust that young people ought to have a period confine with regards to utilizing the web. Due to numerous youngsters aren't dependable, they want to go on their cell phones and utilize the web as opposed to getting their work done, Errands, and fundamentally being dynamic. Albeit numerous young people utilize the web to their examination and social information. More often than not they utilize the web as an anxiety reliever however it isn't alright they ought to have some other method for losing their anxiety.