subject: Wireless Internet A God Send Or The Downfall Of A Society [print this page] There are so many wonderful benefits to having wireless internet, after all, we are a society on the road and we want our gadgets to be able to go on the road with us. Whether you use your iPhone to display information on the closing stock prices or to look at the local grocery store circular, one thing is certain: Once you have one of these devices you will use it almost anywhere you go .
Children are even being brought up into a faster paced world than the generations that came before and since most of them have a cell phone with wireless internet access by the age of ten what will be the long term ramifications of this ever growing trend. Well many will say that the world will just get faster paced spinning us all out of control but since the hype when computers first came out was that they were going to make humans obsolete, we probably don't need to give much credence to that concern.
There are issues which probably do need to be watched, however, issues such as how it will affect things like manners should be paid close attention to. If you have a teenager then you've probably noticed that they never seem to stop texting. At the table, in the car, or even in the store each OMG is precious, and each update on the status of someone is urgent. Many adults have been increasing rude when it comes to cell phone use and the ,pre acceptable these phones become the more rude our society as a whole will become, placed text messages and calls over the actual social interactions with real people standing before them.
And the language? Well, let's just say that the English language is about to take a real hit during the next decade as most who text use abbreviations to communicate with their friends and silent letters and vowels are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Children and teens have discovered that many of the letters are not making sounds anyway so dropping them will reduce the characters in a text message allowing them to write more. Also, things like punctuation and sentence structure will dissipate as well.
Of course there is really little that we can do to stop the wheels of change and personally, I wouldn't give up my wireless internet access for all the tea in China but the ramifications of cell phone internet usage and text messaging really are things that can change the shape of the world as we know it.
