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Article on cyber world a boon or bane

Answer 1

With social media, cyber worlds, and the epidemic of texting on the rise, our youth is losing its grasp on reality. Parents need to be stricter with time limits on the Internet, and children still in grade school have no reason to be on a cell phone. We need to get back to old-fashioned person-to-person communication. Everything now is done virtually, whether through texting or in world cyber chats. When you ask a child or tween how many friends they have, they will come back with a response like 900 because that’s how many friends they have on Facebook and Xbox; this really is a problem. This topic really needs to be brought into light; children need to be taught how to interact with other people in person and not just over the Internet and through texting. There are children as young as four with cell phones who are getting caught texting in kindergarten. At that age what do these children have to be texting about? These same children are bringing laptops to school and, instead of wanting to go out for recess to run around and play and make up silly games, they want to be checking up on what’s going on in cyberspace. The grammar of this generation has also gone almost completely out the window. They are too caught up in the “LOLs” and the “K” instead of “okay” or “ok” and the “TTYL,” “BRB,” and “U” instead of “you.” Teachers see this all the time, and it truly is a problem that needs to be addressed. If you don’t know how to communicate, you cannot get anywhere in this world. Through this paper, I plan to bring to light all of what is really going on with our youth and what we can do to stop it and make things hopefully a bit better for everyone involved. We really need to stop and go back and teach out youth how to have a real person-to-person conversation and use proper manners again. We are moving at such a fast rate with technology and everything else, and we really need to keep our youth updated on technology, but they still need to have basic communication skills. When it comes to this generation going on a job or a college interview they are going to be lost. This generation has not been exposed to how they need to communicate with adults or even with their peers to just have a simple conversation. 

According to a survey done by the Times Daily, “out of 700 youth aged 12–17 who participated in the phone survey, 60 percent say they don't consider electronic communications—e-mail, instant messaging, mobile text—to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school, and 64 percent report inadvertently using some form of shorthand common to electronic text, including emotions, incorrect grammar or punctuation.” So this implies that 64 precent of our youth is suffering from texting and has become too careless with their formal writing as a result. Texting is taking away the depth and attention to detail that our youth need to succeed in the business world. Texting has become the oxygen supply to the world. You see people texting while doing everything-shopping, eating, watching a movie, driving, and even falling asleep to it. To save our Generation Y and Xers, we need to go back to the drawing board and put a huge focus on making sure children know how to write properly. They need to understand the importance of communication to them in their future. A teacher in Los Angeles noticed that with passing each year, texting becomes more of the widespread thing to do; the spelling and writing seems to be so much worse. Also teens would just rather communicate via computer or over the Internet. They have more courage to ask for things like an extension on a deadline or something like that when they don’t have to be face-to-face. Once students finally find the courage to ask their teachers face-to-face however, they are much more reserved, shy, and have a hard time making eye contact.

Answer 2

Cyber world is like a glittering star which looks beautiful from the long distance. It has definitely served the world with a classy living and offered a huge number of benefits which has made the life enjoyable like social networking, online shopping, music, entertainment, various mobile apps, etc.

 In fact, the World Wide Web has brought the world closer and this is the most phenomenal quality of the cyber world.

However, along with these benefits, it has created one big problem for those who spend most of their time in browsing internet.

It is called cybercrimes.

Although, the law enforcement agencies working hard on resolving this problem, it is spreading its arms steadily and more number of people are becoming victims of identity thefts, malware infections to PCs, hacking, etc.

The best way to protect yourself from cybercrimes is being careful about what we share online. It is important to refrain from sharing personal information on internet and downloading anything from unsecure sources.

The security software can also do a great job in protecting you from cybercrimes.

So, we can say that, cyber world is a boon if used carefully and can prove to be bane if we act irresponsibly.