Benefits of Technology

These days a lot people think that technology is a bad thing when really it is constantly helping people around the world. One of the main concerns of technology is computers and typing. People don't like this for reasons like it isn't real writing and abbreviations such as "lol" and "ttyl". I personally have never seen someone write any abbreviations like these on a paper or anything and i have never either. This is just one of my points about Technology being under estimated. One reason that technology is very helpful is threw the use of the Internet. Lets say that u miss an assignment at school or you lose a paper and it's do the next day. You can either email your teacher or print the assignment off. This helps a lot. It's like Micheal Wesch explains in his video, using the Internet is much easier and faster than writing something out. Plus there are features like spell check and grammer check so you don't have to worry as much about these kind of errors. An interesting fact from "The New Literacy" by Clive Thompson is that before he Internet was released most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a a school assignment. Unless you got a job that required producing text such as a job in the Law, Advertising, or Media. This actaully shows that the Internet helped get people involved in writting. These are a few of the reasons why i think that the Internet in a privilege and a tool, not something that hurts kids educatons and writing skills.