Rochman, Bonnie. "Is All That Texting Turning Young Adults Into Social Robots?." TIME.com. TIME, 21 Sept. 2011. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
This article title is self-explainatory. Young adults send on average 110 text messages a day. According to a survey taken by 18- 24 years old says that most yound adults prefer to apologize over text because it reduces the awkwardness.This article explains how our generation is losing the ability to empathize with our peers and others because using texting and social media is making our brains "robotic." This generation is also creating an impatient society where everything must be instantaeous and constantly changing through technolgical advances.
The authors audience is the general public. There is a slight bias towards yound adults who "over-text."
This article is an eye-opener to texters and non-texters alike. It really outlines the costs of not interacting face-to-face with people. The young adults that are being referred to as "robots" are only 18-24 years old!Not to mention the cost a month that this excessive texting costs these young adults. The author is correct in the sense that texting is a useful tool when used properly.
I think that this article has potential to be a good support for someone writing about distracted driving or texting in general.If I will use this topic is so-so, I'm not exactly sure if writing about technology would be and interest of mine.I do believe that if you have an interest in technology this would be a good article to research futher.
this article is very true. our society has changed so much. especially the younger generation. everthing has to be quick and its causing many to become impatient. the younger generation is also too into the technology that they probably couldnt even handle apologizing in person because they are to used to being able to use the text messaging, which is very sad. i understand why you pprobably wouldnt wanna do anything on this topic unless you were really interested in the topic of technology, but if you did you could do something on the technology growth and how its changed the younger generation.
ReplyDelete