Changes Communication Languages, Critical Thinking and Intellectualism among People

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Changes Communication Languages, Critical Thinking and Intellectualism among People
As much as the advancement in technology has significantly improved people’s life in terms of communication, transportation, learning and other life essentials, still it has led to massive declination of people’s critical thinking skills and intellectual capacity. Notably, the most affected group are the teens since they are on the forefront of rapid adoption of technological devices. The intense immersion on tech devices has completely changed teens’ mode of communication, which has transformed from the conventional physical interaction to a cyberspace interaction. Over the years, the society has always cherished the ability to think critically beyond the ordinary to develop intellectualism. However, the society seems to value and measure literacy basing on individuals lifestyle achievement. The articles “How R Tngz Dude" and “Isn't It Time We Started Reading" by Colin Campbell and Northrope Frye respectively, highlights on how humans especially the teens are on the danger of losing control on of their intellectual and critical thinking skills. Consequently, individuals’ ability to think clearly and having outmoded interactions are constantly diminishing due to the changing mode and perception of communication, drop in desire for literacy and amplified relish for prejudices, clichés and stereotyped assumptions.
Change in the mode and perception of communication due to the introduction of technologies such as cell phones has changed the customary interaction among teens and young adults. Today, appropriately 60% of teens have access to mobile gadgets and join several social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Through these sites, teens have formed chatting pages and groups where they exchange messages mainly for fun and nothing constructive Campbell’s article narrate a research of Nobuo Masataka of Kyoto University, who argued that the behaviors of teenagers in Japan is similar to that of monkeys. Monkeys are seen as always running around the pack or trees mimicking and imitating each other. Similar to monkeys, teens nowadays spend a lot of time handing out in malls, streets and old places with no specific destination and failing to honor appointments or attend to errands and household chores (Colin Campbell1). Additionally, Masataka perceives these behaviors as teens’ ways to break away from their parents, which allows them to develop their own id...