Some suggest that reading books is dying out because
of the increasing popularity of the Internet among young people. Do you agree
or not? How may this impact the future of society?
It is an indisputable and worldwide fact that printed
books lose their popularity of Earth's population day by day. More and more
often people devote their free time to the Internet, social networks and other
computer activities. Books cease to play a former cultural and educational role
in human life. Plunging into virtual life, people forget that leisure-time
might be spent with a great number of advantages of reading a cognitive book.
Therefore, I firmly consider that reading books is dying out because of the
increasing popularity of the Internet.
World Wide Net's influence is the most powerful
phenomenon which impacts human race not to read and can lead to several
irreversible negative consequences. Firstly, not reading population is accepted
as degrading population. A person, who spends more time brushing teeth than
reading books, stops thinking and speaking clearly. He can't formulate thoughts
correctly and accurately. It takes him a lot of time to write a composition or
an essay, to answer a difficult question or to participate in discussion. His
speech becomes incoherent, inconsistent, ugly and uncivilized. Thanks to
reading books, both reflections and the speech are improved, but the obsession
of the Internet kills these skills as in the virtual world people use
reductions and even unacceptable words.
Secondly, the rejection of reading books for the
Internet can lead to the absence of education of future generations, the
problems of forming their own views and opinions and lack of foundations of moral
values and principles. Teenage generation which only starts living perceives
the world from the point of view of authorities. For them authorities are their
parents. It is no wonder, a teenager won't be keen on books if his parents
spend leisure-time searching World Wide Net or social networks. A person will
lose book's interest absolutely, though they are teachers of each person who
loves literature. There is a curious fact, which is based on scientific
researches , that people which are not reading books, can't define for
themselves what are evil or good. They do not study on ancestors's life
experience through books, so have no idea of destinies, life difficulties of
people and ways of their overcoming. As a result of Internet obsession people
will not know history of the world or even of the mother country. The
uneducated generation is a clay from which it is possible to mold everything
someone wants, it is an army which might be inspired by anything, as such
people cannot rely on their knowledge and to create own living position.
For all that, the problem of the increasing Internet
popularity is serious enough to reflect on that how to prevent extinction of
books. If young generation will continue to devote all spare time sitting in
social networks, not reading books, our population will be like slaves that are
inspired easily. There will not be the end of the printed book, if even one man
saves his love to literature.
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