That College Life

Today I read 2 blogs over social networking, they are; Social Networking: Is it Good Or Bad? and A Little Social Media Rant. Prt. 1 and Prt. 2.. Both posts were strongly resentful towards social networking. They would say things such as how we are becoming "dependent" on technology. I strongly disagree with their opinions on social networking. I feel that their opinions are half baked and just a repeat of what people thought in the past. Think about it this way, adults wish that kids would get off of social networking sites in this day and age, but a few years in the past adults wished that they would watch less tv and go outside. Before the previously stated adults there were adults who wished kids would stop playing as much and work. Adults keep our society from evolving as quickly by holding back kids. I say let our kids be wrapped into social media, they will be leading the world soon and I would like them to be as smart as possible. This cycle of pushing down younger generations exploration of knowledge has to stop eventually so we can perhaps have flying cars. I know but really we could be doing much better off now if children were given more of a chance to explore what they are involved with, within reason. Now I'm not saying that younger peoples lives should resolve around social networking, we would create a generation of dumb kids who believe in the currency of "swag" and who adopt Drake the rapper as their prophet. All in all social networking should be used, for what it was created for, technological communication, when I am a parent I will most likely, as much as I can, adopt the advances my children have that I did not when I was their age.