The internet has slowly turned into one of the largest databases in the world and it has become a massive amount of information right at the tip of our fingers. In today's age, we have multiple devices that can access the internet. For example, our phones, our laptops, our tablets, and in some cases, even our televisions. However, coming along with this digital age, we see the pros and cons of the internet and its abundance around us. What was the main discussion in our CS408 class was examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Lets start with an example of the good side of the internet.
Here's a link for what I am discussing: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/refreshed-macbook-airs/
This article basically is modeling the new macbook air that has come out. It is a new and improved extremely portable computer that now is double the speed that it used to be. This computer is extremely thin and light, mainly why it is called the macbook air, and it will download and surf the web at faster speeds than most laptops out on the market right now. It is sad to see that our culture is so dependent on the internet and technology but it is completely necessary for most people to have a laptop and watching how far our technology has come from a dial up speed to lightning fast download speeds is definitely a positive aspect of our technology based age.
Next, lets look into the bad side of the internet.
Here is the link to the article I will be discussing: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/children-and-touch-screens/
This article here talks about the implications of having young children constantly indulged in a different form of technology whether it be a tablet or a smart phone or watching more television. It truly is discouraging to see that the vast majority of young children all know how to use a smartphone with ease and to suddenly become sucked into the device. The article discusses how an educational app is obviously very different from play a first person shooting game but does that actually make a difference in relation to screen time? We honestly have no idea what any of this technology is doing to our younger generation and we honestly will not know until they grow up. One quote that really stuck out to me in the article was "The tablet is the new pacifier." and this is so incredibly true. Instead of putting a pacifier in your child's mouth, you throw a tablet or smartphone on their lap and suddenly they will become silent. For example, my good friend has a child and she just recently posted a video of how her baby will cry when she takes her phone away from her and then be fine right when the phone is returned and this child is only 8 months old. It is upsetting to see that our younger generations will be consumed by technology and that it why I think it is a bad side of the internet and its technologies.
Finally, we will look into the ugly side of the internet.
Here is the third article link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-scheff/adult-bullying-harassment_b_4256954.html
When you typically think of cyber bullying, you typically would think of teenagers or young adults attacking each other on facebook or chat rooms. However, now we are seeing more and more adults become a part of the cyber bullying era. More and more will adults go on facebook and attack each other and make fun of how they raise their children or how they handle their everyday life. In my opinion it is extremely sad to see parents join in on cyber bullying because they are supposed to be the mature adults and set examples for younger kids and how are they supposed to set a good example if they are on the internet bashing other parents. They do not realize that kids will learn from the people they look up to the most. Even adults now have to watch everything they are doing on the internet and that it why I think this is an ugly aspect of the internet age.
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