Harlen Coben, editorial,¨Undercover Parent ¨( March 16,2008 ), claims that parents should monitor their teens and what they do on the internet. The author started off being against this idea, but then he sat down at a dinner with his friends whom convinced him otherwise. The author backs up his reasons after his anecdote. The authors purpose of this article is to make sure that parents are doing their best to protect their teens from the dangers of being online, in order to establish total and complete safety with his or her teen/teens. The intended audience for this article is parents with teenagers or kids who have access to the internet, now assuming the author has teens of his their would be some connection made with the audience their.…
The internet is a great tool not only for teenagers but for people of all ages. With the internet, we can easily figure…
The Internet has become our (teenagers) most used source of information and where we collect the most of our information. This can have grave effects on us and the way we process information.…
“What Adolescents Miss When we let them grow Up in Cyberspace” written by Brent Staples is a great essay and has many strong points. But I’m going to disagree with this one. The fact that staples has argued that the internet is taking over teenagers social life has offended me and my generation. I differ with his arguments. I believe that the internet has made today’s teenagers more socialize and more connected than ever. Facebook, msn, gmail, twitter etc is a great tool for teenagers to stay in touch and makes it easier for each of them to communicate. The internet is a great tool for teenagers to meet and make new friends around the world. I believe that the internet has made teenagers more attentive than before. Let’s use twitter as an example. Twitter is a social site where you and other people update your status. It is a site where you can check what your friends are doing at the moment. It is a great tool to broadcast news to people (including teenagers who does not read or watch the news) without even turning the TV on or reading a long article from a newspaper. It is a wonderful site to keep each individual updated and informed with each other and around the world.…
The Internet offers many positive educational and social benefits to young people, but unfortunately there are risks, too. As in any other area of life, children and young people are vulnerable and may expose themselves to danger, knowingly or unknowingly, when using the internet and other digital technologies. Indeed, some young people may find themselves involved in activities which are inappropriate or possibly illegal.…
Do you think teenagers today always being on the internet will help develop them into becoming deeper thinkers or better writers later on in life? According to Amy Goldwasser, author of the article, “What’s the Matter with Kids today?” she states that more teenagers today would rather sit and play around with their electronics than do homework for school and that electronics seem to be taking over their lives (667). When teenagers seem to be more interested in their electronics such as the internet and texting, than they are with their school work and doing homework, Amy Goldwasser states that with having access to the internet also may make teenagers become deeper thinkers, and also may help them become better writers (669). For example, in agreement with Amy Goldwasser I have used the internet to obtain historical information and images for a high school social studies project. Just last week, my brother used the internet to download a copy of President Obama 's State of the Union speech before it aired on television. Lastly, by using the internet, it helps strengthen children 's typing skills and vocabulary skills.…
In this article the author discusses about the harmful actives that the internet dose to the youth…
Teenagers use technology for a lot of uses. They can discover their passion for their future career. They can also do many of different things that will have a beneficial effect on them. Technology can also have a negative influence on them. It can distract them from more important issues around them than knowing what their friends did in the weekend. Teens sometimes know how to use technology to their advantage. Technology and Social Media has a positive influence on teens if they know how to use it to their advantage.…
The internet has become quite popular as a method to communicate with in today?s modern day society. Retrieving information whether its purpose is for personal benefit or entertainment has been revolutionized by this medium. However the internet faces major problems with society?s generational hierarchy, as this information may not be intended for everyone in society to view. The internet has removed the walls from our homes allowing faceless people to communicate with us without regard to personal privacy or rights. Internet Censorship in today?s society has been beneficial by protecting our adolescent community from such things as pornography, malicious information, and child predators.…
The internet is currently considered an integral part of the society. It provides both advantages and disadvantages. For one thing, the information literacy of young people has not been improved with the widening access to technology (Rowlands et al. 295). Further, Internet research shows that the speed of young people's web searching means that little time is spent in evaluating information, either for relevance, accuracy or authority (Rowlands et al. 295). This will make them more work-shy. In addition, young people have a poor understanding of their information needs and thus find it difficult to develop effective search strategies (Rowlands et al. 295). As a result, they exhibit a strong preference for expressing themselves in natural language rather than analyzing which key words might be more effective (Rowlands et al. 295). Moreover, young people have unsophisticated mental maps of what the internet is, often failing to appreciate that it is a collection of networked resources from different…
Teenager also usually spend their times in forum, youtube, twitter, facebook, and etc whether to express their thought or feeling , reading people thought, chatting with their friend and watching some videos they find most of their times in surfing the net all day long without getting bored as they get so hooked to this kind of activity and keep on searching more and more. Surfing the net allow teenager to have lot of knowledge whether it is good or bad. They also be able to meet a lot of people connect with them worldwide.…
Research is the most common way that the internet is used and it has become one of the biggest sources for research. Students from all different grades of schooling are among the top people who are using the internet for research. In fact, nowadays, it is almost required that students use the Internet for school research. The Internet is so commonly used for research because of its limitless information. It is amazing how much information one has right at their fingertips. On the flip side, the accessibility to so much information can have disadvantages. Students using the Internet can easily be lured into dangerous activities such as pornography. Whether surfing the web, reading newsgroups or using e-mail youth are at risk of being exposed to extremely inappropriate material.…
This article is called “Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing’ by Tamar Lewin. It was taken from the New York Times in November 2008. It talks about how teenagers are socializing online, which can be a good thing. The articles audience is mainly to the parents of teenagers, and their children, because its telling the parents not to be afraid if their children are ‘wasting time’ on the internet.…
Maybe you can come up with many positive effects of Internet. First, you can get the latest news on the web anytime everywhere. It must be interesting if students make a good use of the web because what teachers teach you is not always the latest thing. Even though the teacher say something to students, they can reply like this; `No, that's not true, Mr. [Blank], I asked Dr. [Know-it-all] at [Top] University just a few minutes ago on the web, and he said [Blank-sensei is totally wrong, the correct information is . . .]' You can have an opportunity to keep in touch with things new and what's happening in the world now. This was not possible a decade ago.…
To begin with, Education play an important role in society that human beings always try to improve the quality of education. The fact is that internet has tremendously accelerate the progress of education. Teenagers are the largest group which are benefited from it, as the internet has aroused their interest on study and broadened their horizons.…