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Just Facebook Me

Submitted by Shutterbug on Tue, 2005-10-18 14:11. community | education | entertainment

As I'm sure everyone knows, TheFacebook is a web community designed to connect students with other students from around the world. TheFacebook is a helpful tool, providing an outlet for students to search for friends from high school and meet new friends at their current college.

However, there is a draw back to this "technological advancement." Everyohe has heard their parents say "well when I was your age, we didn't have the internet, much less cell phones." This article from Newsweek explains how college freshman, now more than ever, are so technologically advanced. Just think about it, almost everyone on campus has a cell phone, computer, facebook account, e-mail, or instant messenger. Are our college-lives easier, than say our parents, because we have all of this technology at our fingertips? How different would classes and class assignments be if we didn't have Blackboard or the Virtual Registrar? We wouldn't even have this class!

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I think about this a lot

Submitted by Like The State on Tue, 2005-10-18 21:17.

I think about this a lot because so often, especially in high school, I would get an assignment and go home and immediately type the subject I have to research into my computer and it would bring up pages and pages of information. I couldn't imagine how much more work it would have been for our parents who didn't have this resource. I'm not saying I never use the library anymore, and somethings require that you go searching through books and card catalogs (well actually most of those are online now too!)... but it's such a great convenience to just go online and google something.

I think our college lives are easier in the sense that the technology we have speeds the research process up considerably. However, the internet still has its drawbacks, the main one being that not everything on the internet is true, and you have little way of knowing if it is, so that leaves us to sift through all those pages. And I don't think that it makes our assignments harder because teachers probably expect more since we have so many resources available to us.

But honestly, I'm not sure how I would have survived in school without sparknotes, google, and online translators.

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