In
this
day and age, the advent of technology has been a controversial topic that often divides opinion.
While
many
people
favour the benefits of technological devices, others claim that their literacy
skills
can be affected negatively when using
such
equipment. In my view, I completely agree that the bad sides of the argument are far-reaching.
This
essay will provide reasons behind my belief.
Firstly
, overusing the auto-correction function has hindered
people
's writing abilities.
Additionally
, it
also
limits how
people
organise a sentence structure.
For example
,
people
do not have to carefully type a word as it will be automatically corrected if it is mispelled.
Moreover
, some applications
such
as Gmail provide users with pre-made grammatical patterns that they can use to write an email. Depending on it,
people
will eventually suffer from a loss of literacy capabilities.
In other
words
, they are no longer capable of conveying their thoughts using their self-generated
words
and sentences.
Secondly
, how the world encourages a quick and convenient lifestyle has led to the appearance of abbreviations. Specifically, teenagers prefer texting extremely short messages rather than full sentences to convey their ideas.
For example
,
instead
of writing "See you later", they will type "C u l8er".
This
not only makes readers difficult to understand but
also
impedes their spelling
skills
. Eventually, being unable to spell certain
words
correctly is inevitable.
Additionally
, online or computer-generated conversations often contain simple vocabulary and easy-to-follow grammatical structures.
This
,
although
is to ensure that everyone will understand each other perfectly, is not academic writing and reading.
Consequently
, when being exposed to an advanced piece of article that requires intensive reading abilities, most
people
will find it hard to grasp the meaning of
such
an essay.
To sum up
, the growing need to use computers and portable gadgets for communication has had negative impacts on
people
's writing and reading
skills
.
Such
technological tools not only hinder our cognitive thinking
skills
in forming and spelling
words
ourselves but
also
create an extremely short type of language so-called the teenagers' code. The arrival of
this
newly invented dialect is, to me, unacceptable as it is completely opposite to our beautiful current language which has a much longer history of invention and examination. For all these reasons, I can strongly claim that overusing modern tools does more harm than good.