Grown up digital part 3

Since years ago I started to hear complains about how people in my generation live in their own world, spent too much time online, don't care about anything around us. As soon as internet, social media, video games, gets popular parents started to worried about the influences it can did to their children.  Many of the elders even reject to accept the new technologies. For example, when I was in high school in Taiwan we were basically prohibit  to bring and use cell phones in school. However, I do not think that technologies are making us ignorance. In contrary, I believe that through the technologies Net generations can see a bigger world than before and do something great about it.

Indeed, technologies changed the way we interact with people. We now spending more time texting and tweeting than we actually talking to others. Yet, I don't think this is all bad about this. Take myself as an example, because I am an international student the only way I communicate with my parents and friends back in my home country is through digital technologies like Facebook, Skype, or Line. The digital technologies allows us to interact with people through a long distance and even different time. It doesn't mean that we should abandon the old face-to-face communication and social skills, but it also doesn't mean that we shouldn't accept the new ways of interaction and communication.

Another thing I heard a lot is that young people nowadays doesn't care about their societies or politics. I completely disagree with that. Many of the young generations now actually do care about their country. Take Hong Kong for example, thousands of student went to the street and fight against their government for democracy. Same thing happened in Taiwan in March, 2014.  Many of the social events now are actually done by young people through the power of social networks. I believe that it is the digital technologies and internet makes us see a bigger world which makes us started to care about the problems we never realized before. Just like Tapscott suggest net generation are using  the power of technologies to make us a better world. For example, the ALS ice bucket challenge spread all over the that which raise people's attention to help the people who suffering in this disease. I believe that many people include myself don't quite understand what this disease is before this events happened. The only way this event can raise so many attention and became so successful is through the social networks like Facebook, YouTube, and the contribution of the Net generations. With the technologies young people realized social problems, political problems, environmental problems, etc, and many of us are willing to help with those problems. With the digital technology people nowadays can even work with each other across countries. It allows us to collaborate with the people all over the world in order to make our planet a better place. Although it does change the way Net generation interact with other people and might have some disadvantages, I think we are still doing great by using the benefits that digital technology brought us to make as a beautiful world.