By Erin Pecora
EDI 17 Psychology and Development of Adolescent Students
College of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 18, 2010
Being on the negative side of the today's debate on media's influence on adolescents made me feel better about how I view the topic. It re-affirms my opinion and provides encouragement in my own mind. This added encouragement makes me want to stick to my beliefs even when sometimes having negative thoughts makes me feel like I'm failing adolescent relation miserably.
When I was growing up computers where machines that were found in government buildings, high scale corporations, and schools. They were really slow, took forever to boot up and were not in color. Internet was unavailable at the time and it wasn't until I was in about eighth grade when AIM first made it's entrance onto the scene. That's when the technological revolution really took off. Chat rooms and beepers were the "cool" thing. I remember there was more monitoring of chat rooms by AOL. A couple of my friends had gotten a couple of weeks "suspension" from participating in chat room conversations due to inappropriate language and their parents were sent emails from AOL alerting them to the situation. I think things like that need to start happening again--but it would be on such a wide scale I'm sure it would be costly and time consuming to catch inappropriate behavior occurring at all times. It's hard for adolescents not to get caught up in all technology and media has to offer.
There's major pressure on them from school, friends, and tv shows to take advantage of all technological advances whenever they can. It's ultimately up to adolescents and their parents to make proper judgments on what they access but until there is a fail safe way to monitor internet surfing, there will always be more negativity in my mind.
March 18, 2010
Being on the negative side of the today's debate on media's influence on adolescents made me feel better about how I view the topic. It re-affirms my opinion and provides encouragement in my own mind. This added encouragement makes me want to stick to my beliefs even when sometimes having negative thoughts makes me feel like I'm failing adolescent relation miserably.
When I was growing up computers where machines that were found in government buildings, high scale corporations, and schools. They were really slow, took forever to boot up and were not in color. Internet was unavailable at the time and it wasn't until I was in about eighth grade when AIM first made it's entrance onto the scene. That's when the technological revolution really took off. Chat rooms and beepers were the "cool" thing. I remember there was more monitoring of chat rooms by AOL. A couple of my friends had gotten a couple of weeks "suspension" from participating in chat room conversations due to inappropriate language and their parents were sent emails from AOL alerting them to the situation. I think things like that need to start happening again--but it would be on such a wide scale I'm sure it would be costly and time consuming to catch inappropriate behavior occurring at all times. It's hard for adolescents not to get caught up in all technology and media has to offer.
There's major pressure on them from school, friends, and tv shows to take advantage of all technological advances whenever they can. It's ultimately up to adolescents and their parents to make proper judgments on what they access but until there is a fail safe way to monitor internet surfing, there will always be more negativity in my mind.
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