Summary Of Kids Today By Amy Goldwasser

The Internet is America’s Villain Amy Goldwasser in her essay, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” challenges the idea that “kids today” don’t read or write. She argues that an average of 16.7 hours is spent a week in the average teen’s life reading and writing online. However, there are educational and social forms of reading and writing that kids do online also. Contrary to Goldwasser’s opinion and her call to action to stop regarding the Internet as a villain, I would argue that the Internet and cell phones are indeed what is wrong with kids today. It is agreeable that the Internet serves two purposes for kids today: educational research tool and social media networking. In order to refute Amy Goldwasser’s stance, evidence will be discussed
You can research anything in the world you could possibly think of and want to. Educational at best, the Internet is the world’s major source of instantaneous information at your fingertips. But the huge downfall to everybody having this resource and now so adopted by almost the entire population as a way of life (i.e. banking, email, bill paying, etc.) is that anyone can find out anything about anybody at any time so privacy is an issue. The Internet has become a necessity of life because most people can’t even go a few hours let alone a day without being on the internet. You cannot even go to a job site today and ask for an application to fill out because they send you to a kiosk computer in the store or give you a website you can visit in order to electronically file your employment application. The Internet is light years past a mere educational
Cell phones create the feeling that anyone can get a hold of you at any time and at anyplace. Nobody owns a landline much anymore because of the ease of using a cell phone. To be quite frank nobody really speaks to one another much anymore. People today would prefer to text message or connect on the Internet to speak with each other. So peoples social skills are reduced to just texting over a phone instead of actually speaking with one another. When is the last time you saw a fifty cent pay phone? I think that classifies as an antique now! Smartphones are cell phones that incorporate the Internet and Applications of Internet related websites into the basic talk and text messaging of a cell phone. The wave of texting has caused many more car accident when driving and is against the law in many states while driving for that reason. All types of apps for a peoples phones now in days makes people rely to much on the internet if the internet went down how would they survive? Now people can access anything they want right at the palm of their hand at any