Internet and Kids

Internet. If I didn't have the internet I would bored as can be. Internet is the connection to the world. But has internet now lose some of his purpose and now there are more cons than pros. You can say Internet is a good thing for society but there are lots of bad things about it too. I personally think that the internet is the fall to my grades. If there was no internet I would be so much smarter. However, internet is a tool.

I think that these past few years where I have been expose to the computer and internet more frequently my grades were dropping. When I was little I used to use to the internet for researching purposes and now I mainly go on to check social networking sites. I think that the use of internet back then and now has changed.

Little kids are affected by this too. When they go online and check websites or play games, they are exposed to violent content. Sites such as Youtube may contain curse words and violent acts. These things influence the children making the kids seem like its okay to say those things. I have noticed that some kids are getting more and more stuck up. They have lack of manners and they are cursing a lot more than when we were their ages.

For an example I have a friend who is around 8 or so and he already knows all of the curse words and he says them whenever he feels like it. I didn't even know ANY of the curse words until I got to middle school. He has a lot of internet influence too. He watches things on Youtube and acts some of it out because he thinks it is "cool". So I was at his house and he was doing something really bad that he thought was "cool" and I said that it wasn't cool. In the blink of an eye he stopped doing this. Its mostly the internet fault that he gets bad influence from and most of it are from teens who are actually really bad. So he is following what everyone else is doing. Internet is practically brainwashing kids. Well not internet itself but the content it contains.

While I am sort of on the subject of kids. I want to add in the fact that most middle schoolers are making bad decisions because of friends. I think that if one kid thinks that a certain thing is "cool" other people will join. Another example is one of my friends. Please note that this friend is the older brother to the one 8 year old one which I was talking about moments ago. My friend is 13 and in middle school. He is about to attend Alameda High so he came to me for advice about taking which class. He is a rather smart student and always getting good grades. He asked he if u could take all these easy classes. I was confused because I know he could have done better and his response was "Oh, my friend said these classes are easy up on the top." So apparently all of his friends are taking the same classes just so they can be together. The chances are of getting the same class with them is really really slim. So just you wait Mr.Sutherland. You might have a lot of cocky students in your class.

Another thing that I thought was REALLY weird was freshmens talking to seniors as if they were equal. I mean like they are equal but some freshmens think they are really good. So of the kids don't have as much respect for older people anymore. It is something I can't really explain.