The dark corners of Internet abuse

Let's face it, we love our phones more than we love most people. If we fell or slipped into a pool, I wonder how many millennials would tend to themselves before frantically unholstering their sleek phones to see if they were still functional. The altar of humanity has switched once again from oil-lit tables with manuscripts, from typewriter tables, from heavy tables with bulky machines that somehow resembled 'computers' to what it is today. This altar today is a bedside table, a handy charging wire untidily placed on it, a station of immense power to the modern human. In a way, the technological revolution has 'affected' the teenage generation to the greatest degree.

Through a pessimist's narrow mind, phones have 'ruined' today's generation, making them 'introverts' and 'social outcasts'. It is absolutely true that the Internet has its shortcomings and its dark corners of abuse and insensitive material, and this is what is noticed by the pessimist.

Through an optimist's cheery lens, the focus lies on the advantages that the digital age has showered so plentifully upon us. We have not shriveled up to the outside world like prunes, but have instead opened ourselves out to new possibilities beyond the realms of our imaginations. We are now able to find old classmates, lost crushes, forgotten acquaintances and all such with a few taps of our screen. Technology brings the world closer together than it ever was before, and as the optimist cleans his camera lens with his sleeve, he chuckles sarcastically at the pessimist, who was giving him a deathly stare.

Like an axe on the indecisiveness of the optimist and his counterpart, the pessimist, the door flew open and in the filtered light stood the realist. The realist nonchalantly began speaking. Agreeing that technology is frequently abused and acknowledging the fact that technology is the penultimate form of communication in today's world, the realist brought up his point. Instead of arguing about whether technology is a blessing or a curse, we should simply accept the fact that technology exists and it is not going to leave. We need to use technology to our advantage while ignoring those who use it improperly. With that succinct message, the realist turned and left, smiling at his brother's reactions.

The author loves skipping homework as much as he loves watching football. But hey, he's 14, after all

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