- Facebook: This is the key topic in most articles within my beat. In a recent article, posted today, by Elissa Gootman, "If Youth Can Post Its Facebook Status, Age Can, Too" mentions how a class of mid-age men and women were being taught how to use facebook to keep up with today's society. Parents and grandparents in the class were using the lesson as a way to see what they're children and grand children are up to.
- Video Games: Elissa Gootman's article, also mentions the impact of video games, when it was quoted, "Their assessment of me is I’m a dinosaur, so to speak,” he said. “My granddaughter had to teach me how to properly use a cellphone. I had a 6-year-old grandchild tell me how to set up PlayStation because I didn’t know how to do it. It’s embarrassing!” Basically because of these new technological items, people older than the newest generation are lacking, in a whole new world they are not even aware of.
- Smartphones: Smartphones, can be a benetifical thing or it could be the complete opposite. Many teenagers, or people in their early 20's often are placed in the age group of owning smartphones. Older age groups are still using their modern flip phones. People are not aware how much of an impact these phones have made in society today. An article, by Nick Bilton, "Smartphone Market Expected to Sour in 2011" In this article, it says that "smartphones makers are expected to ship more than 450 million smartphones in 2011 compared to the 303.4 million units shipped in 2010." Also the idea of texting is another large factor in Smartphones because of how easy the markets have made texting be. These are all ceritified examples of how much smartphones are impacting the world today.
I wrote my first article, on facebook, which is ironic because it is one of the most recognized issue in technology as I researched, most articles were pertaining to that. The second article I wrote about was the toy industry decreasing because of video games. Although I didn't see any articles on the same issue, I still feel like it is very important in my beat. I just saw an article relating to how the video game systems are not understood to the older generations, but nothing about why, and how the world is changing because of it. Being that I work at a toy store, I find it to be very devastating. Toy stores are going out of business all around New York City, and I thought there would be more articles on that. I do not have any plan for my third article, but I may focus it on smartphones only because it seems to have a large impact on society, after reading some articles on my beat.
Smartphones can go a long way with really digging in deep, if I were to choose to write about that. For example students have been caught cheating on tests because it is easy to Google a question from the test. Smartphones are able to access online shopping, facebook, dating websites etc. in a more convenient way. Texting is made more easier as well, since there are keypads made for texting, the majority of people text. Texting while walking the street, not paying attention, being anti-social are all ways that smartphones can play in affect. In an article by Jan Hoffman, "A Girl's Nude Photo, and Altered Lives". This article was about two 8th graders who dated, there names were Margarite and Isaiah. Margarite obviously felt that she trusted her boyfriend Isaiah, and sent him a naked picture of her on her cellphone. They broke up and he forwarded it to another 8th grader, who used to be friends with Margarite. The ex-friend then forwarded the picture to everyone in her phonebook and titled the picture "ho alert". Eventually Margarite found out what was going on and it destroyed her mentally and emotionally. Text messages have a huge impact on society, now more than ever because of how accessible it is.
Technology has a whole has been increasing daily, and it is very interesting to write articles on this topic because compared to years ago, it has changed dramatically.
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