Use and Misuse of Internet

The internet plays a great role in studying; you cannot access JSTOR offline. Students conduct most/all of their research for school projects on the internet. The internet is hoarded with websites that aide in examination/test preparation.

All boys go-to porn sites but not all boys get bad grades. The key is to keep boys from getting addicted to porn and in making sure that they have organized study schedules/time-tables.
Girls get addicted to chatting; again the key is in moderation. Everyone chats on msn/G-talk/Yahoo but everyone isn’t failing courses.

Men can usually not make friends unless they get drunk and watch sports at bars/pubs. Boys can’t keep friends unless they go-to porn sites and play some kind of sport.

Women/girls need to read Sweet Valley high equivalents; watch romantic comedies or T.V shows/sitcoms on family or highschool to interact with other girls effectively. However, there are no solid rules for women/girls; because girls tend to have small intimate friendships based on unique interests; while men/boys socialize in throngs.

Friends are necessary for healthy development; so cutting children/teenagers off from the only means they have to strike friendships will make their grades suffer even worse than an addiction to these things does . [[http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/1/2/9/8/p212983_index.html]]

Simply because some get distracted doesn’t mean we must kill the internet. A vast majority of my high school uses facebook for homework help, or they don’t have one. As for porn, if they weren’t online, they’d be looking at playboy.

Work* not world. requires*

Reading materials that are easily accessible on the internet may not be available in your local library/bookstore (assuming you have a local library/bookstore; and a membership in that case).

Parents would not have to take their kids to the store; if they helped their kids with projects using their computer alone. Use Ms Word; use websites for resources and information; make printouts and viola.

Counterargument: Independent socialization is prime when it comes to a child’s development. They need privacy during chat sessions(or at least the illusion of it; you can always review chat histories, without telling your son/daughter, if you’re afraid your kid may be stalked by a child molester)

Your kid will either spend time socializing on the phone or chatting on the internet; for healthy/normal social development. The former costs more money.

In this day and age, the primary means for socialization/communication is the internet.

Workers are barred from each other with cubicle walls and cannot be expected to really talk during five minute tea breaks(and so they resort to chatting when they aren’t on breaks; take away the internet and they’ll play games on their terminals to detract from boredom and exhaustion that is a natural result of continuous mental work; except these games will leave them even more exhausted; chatting on the other hand creates a revival of spirits therefore improving work productivity/efficiency. Clubs are only open to people from a definitive age group. Again people don’t go to clubs to make friends they go to dress-up, look good and dance. Most people do not have time for clubbing and it is proving to be less and less effective for socialization in our increasingly technological times.

Interacting with peers/friends only at work/school is very restrictive; it leaves people with a very myopic understanding of the people around them. Students can learn a lot of useful things from other students they’ve never met using the internet. Sometimes a school project about another country can be enhanced by interviewing someone from that country. Or a school project on economics can be improved by talking to actual economists. Writing emails to potential professors to gain an understanding of whether their teaching methods suit you or how could they are at explaining things or whether the universities you are applying are for you is free and the best means to determine where to apply and what your academic options are. Tutors are also available on-line.

Different schools/offices operate differently, certain options cannot be weighed out without talking to people from different backgrounds/work-spaces. And because cities are not very safe; most official and productive interaction is restricted to the internet.