Critical Respond
CR the internet: imprisoning our young people
Nikolovska.M and Réseau.A , two members of the Society for Upholding Traditional Values wrote the article “The internet: imprisoning our young people” in a website, published in September 19, 2010 to criticize how disastrous the internet affects youths’ lives and their interpersonal skills. The authors point out that social relationships of juveniles has been becoming loosed because of the virtual communication. In addition, young people’ verbal language skills have sunk as an inevitable consequence of habits of using non-verbal language in virtual communication. Two authors also warn that increasing youths’ offensive comments at each other in the virtual world may cause harm or pain to another. In conclusion, they suggest that juveniles are necessary to be educated some conventional values as well as to exit the cyberspace in order to come back their real lives. The critical response will argue the authors’ weak point that spoken language skills of young people have dived because of spending all day texting and the authors’ strong point that youths’ outbursts at each other in the virtual world may cause serious results.
In terms of the authors’ weak point, Nikolovska.M and Réseau.A are too pessimistic to state that an explosion in text-messaging of youths has resulted in the dramatic drop in their verbal language skill. In fact, youths’ communicative languages are existing parallel to each other as an inevitable trends in the information technology era. Young people have to not only use verbal language to communicate with their teachers, their classmates in their class at schools and universities but also to use spoken language to interact with their parents and their friends or another outside classes. Similarly, text-messaging is a requirement for many people to communicate with another who could not answer incoming phone calls. For example, most parents have to send messages without phone calls to their
Nikolovska.M and Réseau.A , two members of the Society for Upholding Traditional Values wrote the article “The internet: imprisoning our young people” in a website, published in September 19, 2010 to criticize how disastrous the internet affects youths’ lives and their interpersonal skills. The authors point out that social relationships of juveniles has been becoming loosed because of the virtual communication. In addition, young people’ verbal language skills have sunk as an inevitable consequence of habits of using non-verbal language in virtual communication. Two authors also warn that increasing youths’ offensive comments at each other in the virtual world may cause harm or pain to another. In conclusion, they suggest that juveniles are necessary to be educated some conventional values as well as to exit the cyberspace in order to come back their real lives. The critical response will argue the authors’ weak point that spoken language skills of young people have dived because of spending all day texting and the authors’ strong point that youths’ outbursts at each other in the virtual world may cause serious results.
In terms of the authors’ weak point, Nikolovska.M and Réseau.A are too pessimistic to state that an explosion in text-messaging of youths has resulted in the dramatic drop in their verbal language skill. In fact, youths’ communicative languages are existing parallel to each other as an inevitable trends in the information technology era. Young people have to not only use verbal language to communicate with their teachers, their classmates in their class at schools and universities but also to use spoken language to interact with their parents and their friends or another outside classes. Similarly, text-messaging is a requirement for many people to communicate with another who could not answer incoming phone calls. For example, most parents have to send messages without phone calls to their