Has technology impacted my literacy? Of course it has. And I absolutely hate it. As much as I hate how the way human kind communicates now days, I can't say I don't buy into it all. I text all the time, I have a facebook (I don't use it a lot though) I have an email, and at times I love it all. To be able to be in contact with someone in a second is great at times but if that's our only way we communicate with those people, then it's just sad.
Let me just go on a tangent about communication for a second, our generation is frowned upon so much for our use of the internet and texting. And I can't say it's great but now that people other than our generation are using things like texting and facebook, good god they are worse than we are! I mean maybe it's just the adults I know, but it's the only way they communicate with each other and they lose so much in the internet or through text. They'll get all mad at each other and it's just ridiculous. I must say that since we grew up with this stuff we learned at a certain point what a good idea to talk about over texts was and through facebook and what was bad. (Okay not EVERYONE has learned, but it's gotten a lot better) I think we learned in middle school when we all first started using these things, and at first it was really bad. But as we grew up we got some common sense about how to deal with these things. Now that adults are using this stuff that seems new to them, and I hear about these miscommunication over the internet I feel like I'm hearing about a middle school student. I mean come on! Grow up and just call them or go visit them! Okay that is my very opinionated tangent about these things.
Back to my literacy...I prefer not to blend literacy and technology. I hate it when teachers assign reading on the computer. I just go home and print out what I have to read because it hurts my eyes to read all that. And just books in general are better, and then have a feeling and a smell and you can bring it where you want with you. I don't really want to snuggle up with my laptop. It's a machine, I'd have to bring the charger just in case the battery dies, and then I'll get distracted with facebook or a TV show.
Books are just wonderful. It's like opening another world, and you forget where you are. When I read on the computer it's like working, I don't enjoy it at all. Technology I guess has really made me appreciate the wonderfulness of a book, how each is different, even if it's the same story each book is unique. Maybe I'm old fashioned...which would be weird because I'm 16 but I'd take reading a book over reading a nook or on the computer or whatever else there is, any day.
I totally agree that reading over the internet/nook (when teachers assign it), is not nearly as good as just reading from a book. And I also don't think it's always a good thing that technology has influenced everyone. I don't think that you sound old-fashioned.=]
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