Information technology is keeping students, and young adults informed. Whether you get it from your news feed on Facebook, or you see news highlights while you are checking your email, we are constantly having news information shoved down our throats. For those of us who have an interest in what is going on, it is even easier to get access to news information. On my iphone I have both a CNN application, and a BBC application, which I can check instantaneously, these applications are constantly updating with lives news feeds. I cannot tell you the last time I picked up a newspaper, yet I still seem to be pretty well informed. In regard to this making us more stupid, its not possible. I doubt our parents, when they were our age went to the news stand or wherever you find these “paper things” every morning to get a paper. We don’t have the choice to not be informed anymore, unless you have no internet, and live hidden in the woods. News just follows you everywhere.
Yea I totally agree, the internet is a much more efficient way to get your news. When something happens in the world most of the time someone tells me something, i asked where did you heard that and mostly is from the Yahoos main page. Also other parts of the internet, of course.
ReplyDeletethat's right, today's news is at our fingertips. I read the current events that are taking place in my home country, Turkey, all the time-- I don't know what I would do if this service was not available to me. I agree with you in that the Internet and information technology does not make us stupid, but I do think that it makes us lazy. I love YouTube and use it all the time. It helps me with my Chemistry homework, for example, and is very convenient and easy to use. In just ten minutes, I can learn something that I did not know before. We need more information technology; others may disagree possibly out of fear of change.
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