Now, we can all admit, the Internet is our now and our future. We can not hide from it. It has given me a place to go when I want to read a certain topic and want quick access to it. The way the Internet is set up, you cannot just look at one thing and be done. That one topic can bring you to several other topics and before you know it, you have retained lots of new information. People who say they don’t appreciate the Internet and the advances of the Internet most likely still take part in the use. It is hard to not use the Internet at some point in this day in age.
“I keep reading that in the age of screens we’ve lost our ability to concentrate, that we’ve become distracted, unable to focus. But when I look around me and see people riveted to their devices, I’ve never seen such a great wealth of concentration, focus, and engagement.”(Goldsmith, 13). In this quote, Goldsmith is stating how people aren’t moving away from growing and prospering; in fact they are, just in a different way. The Internet is a modern way of learning material and being invested in today’s society.
Linday Saienni has an opposing view to this. In her article, “Instagram Poets Are Ruining Everything”, she states, “Perhaps the poetry by accounts like R.M. Drake are simply fitting for today’s generation, who can’t pay attention to something unless it’s dulling their senses to the extreme.” I do not agree with how she is trying to belittle these poets just because they briefly write and appeal to a lot of people. These people are just using their platforms to get their work across, nothing less.
Literature & the Internet 