PBS's presentation Growing up online was intensely accurate. The generation gap is absolutely widening and the internet is of great help. Based on the teenagers around me, my siblings and cousins, I agree with majority of the presentation. The presentation touched on two topics that stood out to me: schoolwork online and social networks.
Using the internet to do your schoolwork is a great advantage (I'm doing it now!), but it can also be a students demise. A boy in the video said he never reads the books he is assigned he just uses spark notes. If a student does this for every course subject in highschol, they will never learn. They may pass the grade but they will not actually learn the material.
Social networking is like the greatest thing ever when used in moderation, and in most cases, when used with supervision. The presentation showed two girls who used social networks one who took on an online persona and another who joined an online community dedicated to eating disorders. In both instances things turned bad. The first girl became very provocative and thrived for the male attention she was receiving online. The second girl became envious of other members of the community whose disorders were becoming worse. If the two were supervised these situations would have probably been prevented.
The internet isn't going anywhere, and neither are we. The internet is full of good and bad stuff, its our responsibility to know how to use it in moderation.
~B.G~
I agree. The internet is indeed a great place, but there is a good amount of people miss using it. It really was sad when that boy said he never reads books because he can just look up a summary on spark notes, and the girl who posted those pictures online. Some internet users should be more supervised.
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