Far too often, you can find me browsing around the internet. Most of my time is spent looking at sports scores, watching funny videos, or snooping around facebook. Hardly any of my time is spent researching, or broadening my knowledge. However, when the time comes for me to write an educational paper, I don’t have many problems. I’ll admit sometimes it is hard for me when it comes to citing my sources, but the research part is easy. Hardly ever do I have trouble weeding out the legitimate sources from the phonies, or finding a full sized article. This doesn’t mean that I don’t see or understand the problems many students face when researching on the web. Not only can you find more sources at the library, but they are almost all legitimate scholarly articles. The internet has made people lazy, but so has all other technological advances. Computers and the internet have made life much easier, however, it can be a bad thing. If I had things my way, life would be much more simplistic. I have no problems renting a book from the library, I just never do.
After reading this article, I began thinking about the issues I have with technology. It is beginning to consume people’s lives. Kids don’t play outside as often as they used to, people are too dependent on their cellphones, instead of walking one block people drive, and instead of reading a book people watch television. I strongly believe that future generations will completely lack any social skills. Nobody interacts with each other in person anymore, it’s always done through a cellphone or the computer. One of my biggest pet peeves is trying to hold a conversation with someone, while they are constantly toying around on their phones. I think we all have several friends that do this. No doubt technology has come a long way, and for many good reasons. However, I do believe it is an equal curse. People are getting lazier, fatter, and more dependent on materialistic things. Even the most secluded places on earth have seen some sort of technological advances. There are very few places where you can just get away and relax.
I think that in the future things will be so advanced and made simple that kids wont have to go to an actually school to learn. If this happens kids will have no idea how to socialize. What they think is social is going to be leaving a comment on facebook or sending out a tweet. The future generations are going to spend their whole life sitting at home. The internet will bring everything to them.
ReplyDeleteJaHarmon,
ReplyDeleteI’ll start with the critique then move to the compliments, as is my style. First, I want to mention that I too have little trouble, aside form some citation grumbles, with researching and writing assignments for class. However, I have sometimes found myself to be a tad overconfident and almost “tied my own rope” as it were. Be careful and be diligent and you should have no problems. Now for the good parts; I agree totally with children being lazy or taking the easy way out. I require my four girls to not only read each and every day, but to spend time outside playing if the weather is not too oppositional. I even noticed a high school student today sitting out under a tree in my apartment complex reading her school books. I was actually encouraged by this it is so rare. I also believe, to an extent you couldn’t imagine since my family is almost entirely obese, that technology breeds laziness and additionally procrastination. You hit those points perfectly. Keep up the good work and hopefully we’ll both score well in this class.
Sincerely,
Randall