When exactly did this world become to computer savvy? Well, its been said in 1993 when the Google generation was born. Yet, as contradicting as this is, its not computer savvy at all. The Google generation isn’t a generation of nothing but instant gratification, easy application, and short attention spans. All the Google gernation need is instant gratification. No matter how this is meet, it is needed.
The Google generation has no attention span. They can not stay focused on one thing because they are a generation of instant gratification. If a web page is taking to long to load, the Generation will stop and go onto the next website. There are no down time. The generation has grown up in a world of fast internet. Even internet commercials now put up how fast their internet goes. The Google generation has gotten so impatient, that its even leaking over to the elders. One article said that, for the writer, its getting harder to read longer articles. Google generations’ brain has come to the point were they want the next flashiest thing. When the brain can’t be satisfied, it will want to go onto the next thing.
The Google generation isn’t really all that computer savvy either. Its made out to seem that way however. The generation before its to be known as someone who takes up more time on the computer and doesn’t really know what they are doing. They will sit and wait for a page to load, and they don’t mind being patient. However, the Google generation can’t wait. That’s why it seems the generation is so much fast on the computer. They get the first application they can find off the search engine Google. They won’t ready what the application is about, and won’t take the time to actually see what it does. However, the generation before is used to slow computer, and computers that used to cost you a house mortgage. These computer were slow and didn’t have a lot going on for them. So when someone would need an application, they would take the time to find out and research want they really wanted. Downloading an application could possibly take up your whole day. But now that the computer has better graphics, flashier designs, and quicker run time, the Google Generation wants to apply that to everything. They would like to find the first application and BAM! it’s done. However, older generations tend to know more. They also tend to understand that the first choice on a Google search link isn’t always the best. So they will take time to read and understand applications, they are patient.
This whole idea of instant gratification leads to attention span, then attention span leads to how well you truly learn. So what happened to the learning process as the Google generation became more impatient? It all came back to instant gratification. It’s the fact that the generation will just want to see a picture and be done with it. They will not want to sit and read a long explanation to why the people did not cross a river. They would rather see a picture, with people sitting at a river with alligators in it and know that’s why they didn’t cross a river. The generation has grown up on internet giving them the fastest possible information there is.
Since the all information the generation needs is a few flick of some keys away, there is not much need to inter a library to try to find information. Trying to sort through all the ideas and catalog numbers there is, would take twice as much time then it would just typing in the question you have into an internet search engine. So children are now turning away from libraries, but libraries are bringing them back by keeping up with technology. Now things are done by search on a online catalog here at the University of South Florida. Other places now have “ebooks.” Theses are book that are printed in full text online. This makes it easier for students to access the information they need form a desk top. This, once again, goes back to instant gratification. Libaries want to make everything digital. By making everything digital it would be very easy for anyone to access any bit of information they needed. Also if it was digital it would help the libraries become more useful. No student or child wants to search through every book and every page when they can find the same information online. To make it even easier, they just hit “control F” and find a key word they are looking for. Libraries would also like to add ties to online search engines which would also help by making their information more accessible.
All the Google generation needs is instant gratification. It needs it because the generation has grown up in a world were everything it trying to be the faster then the next thing, specially internet. When growing up in a world were everything has been flashy and big from day one, its not that hard to fall into a rut that has all these flashy and fast things. If information is only a click a way, there is no need to trudge around a library worrying if your going to be able to find the information when its truly right at your finger tips online. If life could get any easier, it would. And it would be the next commercial for the “faster internet out there on the market.” All the generation needs is the best and fastest thing there is. This gives a person of the generation fast gratification, which isn’t that horrible because isn’t that what we all strive for anyways?
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I do not like your paper because i feel like you only focus on the bad points about the google generation.
I think your focus statement is that the google generation is nothing but instant gratification, easy application, and short attention span.
I think you need to do a little bit of revising on word spelling and consider putting in some good things.
I didn’t like your paper because it was a little redundant. I was a little confused especially at the end because I’m not sure whether in your paper you think that instant gratification is a good or bad thing. At first it seems as if you believe it is a bad thing, but then you add in that the internet makes finding information faster, which seems like a good thing. If you are trying to say it is a bad thing. Try to make your whole paper sound like it is. Like I said, in some areas your paper seems to be a little redundant, you seem to be saying the same thing just in a different order. I know it’s a first draft, so just reread the paper and you will see what I’m talking about.(But don’t worry, I know my paper is the same thing.)
There are just a few things that caught my eye while reading that you might be able to expand on or explain better
In the sentence, “But now that the computer has better graphics, flashier designs, and quicker run time, the Google Generation wants to apply that to everything.” How exactly does this apply to EVERYTHING! Remember in class where Miller said that when using this word all your reader has to do is find one instance where your statement doesn’t work and your argument is no longer valid. So just be careful.
In the sentence, “To make it even easier, they just hit “control F” and find a key word they are looking for.” What does the “control F” do? I have never even heard of this. I’m not sure if this fits into your argument completely. The sentence seems to be a little out of place. But maybe just explain it a little better and it should be fine.
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