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Jackie Lai
Lennon
English
June 2, 2008

Ever since the time of difference between the baby boomers and hippies, there has always been a sense of separation, ranging from morals to lifestyle. As of now, teenagers are detached from the age of their parents. Parents are using the same ways to connect with other people that they did when they were younger. For example, parents are still communicating with their friends using means of phones calls and letters. On the contrary, teenagers are using more technology then ever. Teenagers use the internet as means of communication. Internet is practically their lives. They use the internet for uses like checking grades to playing video games. Not only is technology useful for past time, but it makes everyone connected.
According to teenagers, cell phones are essential. Cell phones are their own little way to know that they don’t have to fight for the house phone anymore and that they have that special little thing that is theirs. What comes along with cell phones is the ability of texting. Last weekend, I witnessed a group of teenagers’ texting. They were not together to hang out, but to text. Not only that, but during memorial weekend, my sister had one of her friends over to play the Wii. During one of the games they were playing, they simply just paused. To do what? They both just sat down and started texting. This shows how much texting is part of teenagers’ lives. Texts are used for numerous reasons. They range from either the person doesn’t want to talk to the other person or it’s simply just easier for them to text. Texting allows teenagers to be closer to each other due to the simplicity of texting. It enables them to talk to their friends that are either 5 feet away or 5 states away. It is true that texting may seem like we are not as connected, but, in fact, we are due to the 18.5 billion texts that people send worldwide. Not only does texting contribute to the gathering of teenagers, but sites like Facebook and Myspace do too.
There are over 70 million active users of Facebook and Myspace has over 100 million users. With those statistics, how are people not able to be connected when they’re a user of one of these websites? Both websites allow you to communicate safely. Not only can you be friends with people that are in your school, but you’re able to be friends with people across the seas. For example, I have cousins that live in England and without Facebook, I wouldn’t be able to talk to them without an expensive phone bill. With this ability, people are able to communicate with people that they wouldn’t be able to without these websites. Another dilemma that has occurred was the lack of awareness that the teenage era has.
Recently, there was a Wii poll that asked if people thought if they were caught up within world affairs and how they were able to catch up. The results came in to be that people thought that they were aware of what was going on in the world and the way that they were able to catch up was with the use of internet. With the many hours that teenagers may spend on the internet doing god knows what, some time is dedicated to seeing what may be going on in this world, may it be the presidential election or the China earthquake. Personally, without the internet, I highly doubt I would be caught up in either event. Instead of sitting in front of the television watching some nonsense show, teenagers find it easier going onto the computer and using sites like Yahoo! or AOL to learn about current events. Elders wonder why it wouldn’t be easier just to read the newspaper, but we respond with why not just use a computer? Truthfully, the internet provides a handful more information that what a measly newspaper can tell you. Not only that, but it can also provide you with an article and a video.
Point blank, teenagers are more connected with the advances of technology. It may seem as if teenagers may be completely out there, but, in reality, we know more then we show. Guaranteed, everyone in the world will be able to use the computer in the next 10 years. When that point comes, the new question will arise to as if the whole population is more connected to the world or not.