Article Commentary

Technology moulds the youth.

This is the statement I deduce as I braced myself in the facets of technological
innovations that are presented in the paper as trending and efficient looking glass in reflecting
this young generation real insides. It was clearly stated in the paper through support of some
tangible cases that really technology participates in the construction of our youth. It is in fact said
that technology could be that seemingly inseparable to this generation. Needless to say, this
implied that technologies are that vital enough which we cannot live without.

However, despite of these good effects that technologies have to bring on our youth
maybe in terms of searching their identities, a specific question still lingers in my mind which
was left unanswered by the authors. This is the question that given the idea, since our world
today is rampantly chaotic in a sense and many people got their wrong doings at hike fractioning
mostly among adolescents at the scenario, can it also be a haunting reality that this technology
itself may have been, yes bringing our identities, and yet also leading us to wrong identities?

Have you ever tried imagining life loosing electricity? This is where everything is
connected, the technology per se. No electricity equals no technology. Hence, would it be
possible that many of the youths have also to get a brown out in searching the real them? I
guess not. And this is what the authors missed. I understand that their objective is to show how
technology is relevant to our youth, but to how in way, the positive side was exemplified while
the negative ones were kept in the box unfairly as I believe so.
Let use demonstrate this in a certain case. Say a little boy, named Bryan watches the
television 24/7. If we will solely base on the papers results, our conclusion might be that the
little boy is a potential addict. That is his identity. But looking logically in the other way around,
could it be because of the television that drives him lazy and addict, and tags him in the wrong
identity. My point is- that could not be the real identity of the boy if no technology is present.
Technology drives him to be like that, it does not reveal his identity, instead pushes him
unconsciously to be someone in a wrong identity.

Questions in me are just getting ambiguous yet bigger. Could this be really possible that
instead of finding the replica where we ought to recognize ourselves while drowning in kind of
technology we mostly coveted, we also get subdue of our moral beliefs and in the real purpose of
what God has plan us to be. Let us be reminded the times when no technology is present and
compare how life lived before. Maybe today is easier, but if we will come think of it. Do we still
value life the same?

I do not dispute the researcher for their statistics that grants technologies embodiment to
the lives of people. The only thing is that, while we are pampered of comfy means in expressing
ourselves and exuberated of finding ones identity among technologies, are we sure that this
expressions and identities lead us to the right way?

In the article, it was clear that the authors are persuading the readers to view and accept
technology as an extensive inclination our youth can find his lifes meaning. But think of
pornography, addiction, immorality and obscenity. They are also coming from the same source
where we lean our hope. The effects could be real and growing, but would we allow it to
consume ourselves and ultimately become robots of it. You will be the judge.