The Way the Internet Has Impacted the Lives of Adolescents.

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: The Way the Internet Has Impacted the Lives of Adolescents. Introduction The article "What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace" by Brent Staples is quite an amazing piece of work. The gist of the article relates the internet to the lifestyle of adolescents of the current generation. Ways of interaction through the internet such as chatting, skyping, calls, and texts which facilitate the exchange of information to enhanced levels such as through pictures, texts, and several multimedia communication aspects have made communication quite enhanced. The author further expounds on group activities that have been quite extinct among most of the adolescents. Sherry Turkle has also written an article entitled “The Flight from Conversation” which is also in alignment to the impacts that technological advancements have had on the lives of teenagers. The essay uses articles written by Brent Staples and Sherry Turkle to expound on the implications of technology in the lives of teenagers and what happens when people spend too much time on the internet. Summary of the Main Topic The first summary is the of Brent Staples’ article Brent Staples expresses the way the Internet has evoked changes to the lives of teenagers in light to global interactions. One of the major aspects that support his perspective about the Internet is through direct interactions that have an outlook of face-to-face communications (Vickery 146). Brent shows how different his time was through the introduction where he expresses his reactions after he met the father of his girlfriend. In the current society, teenagers can also connect and socialize through the internet although the globalization bit enhanced through the internet. The author adds that in the current society, teenagers use much of their time on the internet and have little focus on real-life social interactions. There is also an addiction that comes with internet interactions, which might infringe the adolescent’s real-life activities. The article further expounds some negative aspects of the internet such as fraud that might be involved in the internet. The report also affirms that the internet might be addictive to a level that it affects the adolescent in their adult lives. The other article by Sherry Turkle is also an essential piece of work in expressing the impacts of the internet. Turkle begins by showing the different contexts that people use the internet and technological elements. The internet makes people alone together as seen in most of the home settings where people are in the same settings, but each person is socializing and interacting with other people across the globe. The article further expounds on how most of the cultures have been consumed by technology. Most of the people have less real-life interactions but vast internet interaction, which portrays some deep level of cooperation in different societies. The article also expresses the way internet connections and interactions have degraded the level of real-life conversations and internet conversations have trampled most of the cultures that pre-existed before the great internet advancements. The Main Arguments/ Authors’ purpose of writing. Both articles Staples and Turkle are...