i think that growing up in this generation definitely has some benefits, one including technology. As i watched the video clip of Conan O'Brien and his guest Louis C.K, I realized how i sometimes take for granted technology and the affect it has in my life. I'll admit that after waiting for more than 5 seconds for a website to load, i will complain like there is no tomorrow. i will start ranting on about how slow my internet is, oblivious to the fact that some teenagers in other parts of the world do not get the chance to enjoy the use of a computer at all. i think that my expectations for technology and the speed that it delivers are very high because i have been surrounded with it for all my life.

if you asked teens if they would be able to survive without technology, I'm pretty sure most of them would reply 'no' in a heart beat, but if you think about it, our parents were able to survive without iPods, facebook and what not, so why can't we? i mean, is it necessary to text your best friend when you know fully well that you should be paying attention to the trigonometry seminar that you teacher is giving the class at that moment. look at our parents, they turned out perfectly fine without being surrounded with the amount of technology that we have today (what did they have anyways? a typewriter?) when i asked my parents about growing up with technology, they were fast to reply that the closest thing they had to technology was a typewriter. While i'm using a laptop to compose all of my units they were stuck with a paper and pencil. it really made me realize how far we all went regarding with technology and what it does for our lives.yes, technology does make it easier for us to communicate with others around us and even around the world, but are we taking it too far? Everywhere we look, there always seems to be the latest version a blackberry that just came out a month ago. at the rate that we're going, who knows what we won't invent.

I think that technology has a way of entertaining our society but it can also challenge and enhance our minds. Technology has made it convenient for students to learn in the comfort of their own home, but technology also has the power brainwash our heads by luring us to buy the latest gadgets and devices, this and that!

i think that with technology, it can create a positive or negative effect on person, it just depends on how they use it.