Growing Up Online

Growing Up Online
Essay done by Melissa Geneser
With this documentary on, “Growing Up Online,” we see the effect the Internet has on teens today.
The obsession that the Internet is for teens and how they “can't live without it,” or so they say. The become another person when they go online, they become the real them, not the fake one that they show people at school and in public settings. So in a sense they are living a lie, having multiple identities. They compete to see how many “friends” they can have on facebook/myspace, when really only 50 are their true friends and 200 they have at least met. How does the Internet effect my life? Well, to tell you the truth I could live without it. Maybe its because my parent have not let it become an obsession for me and that I only got facebook 3 ½ months ago. In my opinion the Internet has greatly helped me in my writing, and I am most appreciative for it, the reason I don't have it as an obsession like most teens, is because I find that there is more important thing in life that I would rather do. Things that will further my education and get me closure to my dream job.(which is law enforcement, well Secret Service or FBI) I don't see how kids can spend so much valuable time sitting in a chair talking to friends for hours at a time, and not do anything that can really benefit their futures. Well they are effecting their futures, but not in a beneficial way.