Internet Helps Teenagers Communicate
The Internet Helps Teenagers Communicate
Abstract
The internet is good way for teenagers to communicate with each other and helps them to do better in school and with their writing abilities. It allows them to express themselves openly and learn about new ideas that they would otherwise have no access to. Social media such as Myspace and Facebook are a great way for teenagers to talk with their peers and keep in contact with friends and family. They would lose touch with these people without the social media.
The Internet Helps Teenagers Communicate The internet gives teenagers an open forum and endless supply of information. They are able to write blogs, or make a website about something that interests them. They are writing now more than ever because of the internet. This is helping them to become better at communicating and writing.
Teenagers also keep up-to-date with technology which is good for their future in college and their career. There are so many things that must be done online now that it is crucial to have excellent skills using the internet. Amy Goldwasser states in What’s the Matter with Kids Today? that the “internet is only a means of communication and one that has created a generation, perhaps the first, of writers, activists, and storytellers”(Goldwasser, Amy, 2009, p. 237). The teenagers are using the internet as a means for communication and it is helping to develop them into great writers.
Social Media Social media such as Facebook and MySpace allow the teens to communicate with each other through an online network. Communicating this way allows teens to stay in touch with friends and family members that they otherwise would not have contact. They can talk to their friends they met at camp or a distance cousin from the other side of the country. The social media helps them to have a large network of friends. They are “learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a homepage”
Abstract
The internet is good way for teenagers to communicate with each other and helps them to do better in school and with their writing abilities. It allows them to express themselves openly and learn about new ideas that they would otherwise have no access to. Social media such as Myspace and Facebook are a great way for teenagers to talk with their peers and keep in contact with friends and family. They would lose touch with these people without the social media.
The Internet Helps Teenagers Communicate The internet gives teenagers an open forum and endless supply of information. They are able to write blogs, or make a website about something that interests them. They are writing now more than ever because of the internet. This is helping them to become better at communicating and writing.
Teenagers also keep up-to-date with technology which is good for their future in college and their career. There are so many things that must be done online now that it is crucial to have excellent skills using the internet. Amy Goldwasser states in What’s the Matter with Kids Today? that the “internet is only a means of communication and one that has created a generation, perhaps the first, of writers, activists, and storytellers”(Goldwasser, Amy, 2009, p. 237). The teenagers are using the internet as a means for communication and it is helping to develop them into great writers.
Social Media Social media such as Facebook and MySpace allow the teens to communicate with each other through an online network. Communicating this way allows teens to stay in touch with friends and family members that they otherwise would not have contact. They can talk to their friends they met at camp or a distance cousin from the other side of the country. The social media helps them to have a large network of friends. They are “learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a homepage”
References: Goldwasser, Amy. (2009). What’s the Matter with Kids Today? In Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst (Ed.), They Say, I Say (pp. 236-240). New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company Lewin, Tamar. (2008, November 20). Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing. The New York Times Online. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com