The points listed below are exactly how I feel towards the internet and technology. Yes, we spend lots of time on the computer, hand held devices, and video games which are not helping in the way we speak, read, or write. I feel it is actually making it harder on us humans that operate these systems.
literacy experts pointed out that texting isn’t increasing literacy but instead shorthand vocabulary and improper spelling (O'Brien, May).
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