Assessment Description
This exercise assesses the learning outcomes 1 (Critically read and analyse academic texts), 2 (Summarise the main points of arguments), 3 (source and cite evidence using the conventions of academic research), 4 (apply the moves of a persuasive-analytical essay), 5 (produce well structured, logical, coherent and cohesive responses to writing tasks) and 6 (produce an academic evidence-based argument).
Answer
Introduction
The introduction of computers has come up with several issues; both positive and negative in the society. Computer technology is currently being linked to as a capricious to the antagonism of social performances, predominantly on the discussion that computers are replacing typical social exercise. Aligned with social identity issue is described as an unpleasant exceptionality between the conduct and the overarching social standards (Sezer & ??gör, 2017, p. 362). In most cases, youths always use the Internet to socialize; however, they can create a social discomfort issue or an internet routine. The use of internet has become common and regular among the youths, and most of them have become addicted. Currently, the young people have given the internet priority over many important things, for instance, most young people prefer being on the internet rather than playing to gain physical fitness as well as investing in creative acts. Instead, they will flock Cyber Cafes as they use both home computers and smartphones to browse the internet. In this case, such excessive application or too much use of the internet can put the lives of these young men into danger if not controlled as far as social development is concerned (Kim et al.,2017, p. 8). Regarding talent exploits, some may end up ruining their talent because they take too much time on the computer than they choose to perfect their skills in the field. Similarly, the adolescent who makes too much of their time on the Internet without parental control are probably creating a poor a study capabilities, and lack of the abilities to emphasize on their needs as youths.
Argument 01
Everything good must always have both negative and positive effects in the life of human beings, the same applies to the Internet. The uncontrolled use of it can negatively impact both physical and mental social stability of a young man. Fr this reason, its use must be checked and regulated to help our young men. Not all the contents that come from the is terrible; however, the excessive use always hinders an individual’s concentration on other vital issues such as classwork. For this reason, schools have adopted policies that curb the use of the internet while learning. The schools have entirely indicated that there is no use or access of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, among much more. Social media has become an outstanding issue, and the students have lost concentration in class, their mind is all over the activities that go around the social world, they think of the uploaded pictures and comments. For this reason, teachers have had rough and challenging times in dealing with situations related to the use of social media. Students’ performance has gone down. At home, students cannot concentrate on homework; instead, they will go through the social media and look at what others are saying. The sleeping tendency has been wholly interfered with, and they sleep late thus creating an adverse effect on the health. They have little time to relax and rest, in fact, some take less than four to 5 hours only to sleep.
Similarly, the innovation of internet has also helped a lot by making some task more comfortable, for instance, I healthcare system, it is used as major support that patients use it to seeking for services. Other uses include such as a system for diabetes, versatile apps, for instance, M-healthcare for daily observation and self-management of diabetes. Another thing that has cropped up is the issue of cyberbullying. Young men are fond of being vocal on social media, more than they are active in real life, they have the guts and courage to say anything they want in society regardless of the consequences. They abuse, insult, and type words that are not right against different people behind the screens without thinking of the outcome or effects of what they write. Cyberbullying has a social, mental and academic impact.
Argument 02
Daily in our lives, we are presented with the pleasure of invention; improvements, for instance, a mobile phone that stimulate and encourage us to communicate and come together more than ever before. However, the introduction of social media and internet has made things difficult for face to face communication down to a more significant heights. This has in turn affected skills such as communication skills. As much as Internet brings people closer, it lacks face to face communication ability which is essential in building teamwork, as well as developing mutual trust that ends up creating good results. When young men or students goes the Internet way to communicate, their relationships with close friends and family members are affected (Perloff, 2014). When a friend takes too much time on the Internet and lose concentration, it might hurt the other party, and the level of friendship reduces until it completely disappears.
As stated earlier, excessive use of Internet creates lack of creativity in the young men thus does not benefit. As much as it is one of the sources of information when it over-relied upon in everything or information needed, people stop to think. To the student, the level of assignment concentration is no longer the same again; students rely on the information they get online than what they read by themselves from the books. In this case, plagiarism in many institutions has increased since students use same materials from the Internet.
On the other hand, it is always said that time is money; however, to the Internet users, especially the young people, this seems to be just a mere saying. Well, when you spend too much of your time on Internet, it means that other activities will be left pending for that matter. It is very addictive and has no way to get out once you are into it. The kind of entertainment that the Internet has come up with has left many youths like slaves to the Internet. They watch films, play virtual games, surf through social media platforms such as Facebook instead of engaging in constructive activities. The initial purpose of the Internet was not what it has turned to be today; it was to create efficiency in our work. The students have set the Internet to be a tool for destruction, making their academic performance level to go down gradually.
With the existence of free of information that flows from the internet, privacy threat is one of the adverse effects of the Internet that most users should know. Young men exchange pictures, display private information to the public and other data in connection with individual safety. In this case, the information provided on the social media can be misused by the strangers to do some criminal activities that may eventually lead them to conviction (Kumari et al., 2015). Consequently, the youth should understand that not all information should be exchanged on the internet.
With these many effects, the youth have turned the society more immoral than it was before, the community has become mannerless. The level of respect has completely gone down, and the teens no longer concentrate on the academic activities, they no longer participate in games, they no longer help the parents, the society has become insecure and much more. In my view, the internet has done more harm than good to our youths, and its purpose has been abandoned, it has created a generation of anti-social youth as proved by the effects discussed above.
