Amy Goldwasser in her essay "What's the Matter with Kids Today?" offers her view on today's young people Internet worshiping. She claims young generation's "stunning ignorance" of history and literature... who have read nothing, knowing only some specialty or other, for instance, computers."
I must say from my experience children these days are lazy to read books, it is easier for them to watch TV or use computer. To my mind Goldwasser’s answer here is not exactly but right: "The Internet according to 88-year-old Lessing, has "seduced a whole generation into its inanities." Actually, I don’t think it’s really "the kids" who have changed a lot but the adults. Every generation thinks that the youth that comes after them are somehow “less” than they were. And, what else may be added - nothing can be done with progress - this is the natural process how the life goes...
For sure, kids tend to know more than the previous generation because they have easier access to information by using internet to get connected to social networks such as face book or my space. I can't deny that nowadays children have more possibilities to learn about a lot of new things online. Teenagers are reading and writing more and spending about 16.7 hours per week on the internet writing and reading and all this, I hope, is for educational purposes. So, it looks that the internet is not a bad thing at all, because it offers learning benefits and makes kids to write and read more than they usually do. Having the internet, teenagers get unlimited access to any information from all over the world. They, of course, can use this information to educate themselves and be better at school.
I completely agree with Goldwasser when she emotionally states: "Once we stop regarding the Internet as a villain, stop presenting it as the enemy of history and literature and worldly knowledge, then our teenagers have the potential to become the next great voices of America."
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