Some people think that the increasing use of computers and mobile phones for communication has a negative effect on young people's reading and writing skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is often said that the Internet's creation in the nineteenth made easier the way in which
people
could learn, work and study. The use
of computers
and mobile phones was seen at first as a democratization of knowledge, culture, and books. However
, I think that this
primary ideology was totally wrong following the side effects and trajectory and use
of these devices. Indeed. I do think that computers
and mobile phones for communication
have a negative effect on people
's reading and writing skills
, especially for young people
.
First,
young people
have been raised with mobiles
and computers
. The problem is that most of the content shared on computers
and mobile phones, especially because of the use
of social, are videos
, images, and emoticons. For example
, to get informed of the news, people
used to communicate with others, write letters to people
who were informed of the situation, or read newspapers before the Internet was created. Today, most -if not all young people
are being informed by watching videos
on the Internet and socials. As a result
, we can attest that young people
are getting used to a virtual world made of videos
and images.
But not only are newspapers concerned, but also
all kinds of information. Indeed, when young people
, especially students, needed to find information for a school project they were confronted with what a lot of young people
are "reluctant to" today: opening a book, an encyclopedia. Indeed, many young people
are being
disinterested in books as Verb problem
becoming
computers
and mobiles
are making on-web research easier and faster. Young people
are, as a result
, reading less and hoping to find quickly a piece of information instead
of reading an entire article about it. For example
, who reads an entire book about a country to communicate with someone from another country when they can just find a short article about the culture they are trying to know better?
Nevertheless
, writing skills
are also
strictly damaged by computers
and mobiles
. Because we are more connected to people
thanks to computers
and mobiles
, we increase the process of talking with everyone, everywhere, the fastest as it can be. Before, thanks to the use
of letters, people
had time to think about what they would write and how they would like their text to be perfectly spelled
and well written. Not only letters but Change the spelling
spelt
also
phone calls would help people
develop their writing skills
as you could not use
abbreviations and slang as people
do every day by texting. A single image-a
yellow face called a smiley- can replace dozens of words if not more. Correct your spelling
image
People
are developing slang, image
, Fix the agreement mistake
images
videos
, and GIF language instead
of writing what they feel, think, and want to say in a text.
Also
, vocal messages become a threat to reading and writing as these two skills
are becoming useless in computers
and mobile communication
. In addition
, creating a technology through which users of these devices are enabled to dictate a sentence that the mobile will write in a text makes people
even more unskilled in writing and reading.
To conclude
, the prominent use
of mobiles
and computers
for communication
has numerous negative effects on young people
's writing and reading skills
. Indeed, it keeps them away from reading and especially writing because of vocal messages and the creation of slang. Communication
becomes a way for people
to tell what they have to say without thinking about what they are writing and saying.Submitted by udmitrienko on
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