Old v. New

Today I met a senior majoring in public relations by the name of Maureen Vitali. Maureen and I had a conversation that seemed endless (in a good way) about how internet affects us. Although Maureen and I both were in third grade, our first experiences using the web where different. Maureen’s first involvement with the internet started in the classroom. She told me she particularly remembers her teacher saying “computers aren’t stupid only the users are”. At home her mother wasn’t accustomed to the new age of technology, which was the opposite at my house. My first experience with the internet was in our home office on our new desktop. While our beginnings are unlike, we both finished daily internet users. Maureen and I communicated well since we had a lot of similar views on the direction the internet is going. We both agreed our society is losing the ability to interact with each other; most people express themselves behind a screen. Internet has seemed to affect the way the youth communicate. The Internet has so much material that the younger generation shouldn’t be exposed to, but they have such easy access it’s hard for them not to be influenced.  It was refreshing to talk to someone who is just as disturbed about our internet culture.