Internet Child

The Internet has become the fastest means of communication. People of all ages communicate to each other by Internet. Is the Internet the new way of making friends or just a way that leads to isolation and alienation?

From one generation to another, friendship acquires new values. Some time ago, when a boy wanted to tell a girl that he was in love with her, he would write a little note and put it in her backpack. This was happening a few generations ago. Teenagers back then, used to go to the cinema, used to play football in the backyard or used to go to the park and take long walks. 

Girls, on the other hand, used to go at one another’s houses and talk about everything that was important in their life. Younger children used to get together outside and play until late at night, when parents had to drag them home. How many children do you see nowadays playing in the park, or playing football in the backyard? Or haw many little girls go out with their dolls and carpets to play outside on the grass? Unfortunately, none…

Today’s children and teenagers communicate to each other via Internet, very fast and constraint by time or distances. Nowadays there’s no need to go out for a drink with your friends in order to talk to them. Just a buzz and an “ r u there?” is enough to start a conversation.

But is this enough? Do children really make friends by using the Internet? Actually, it has been proven, that the Internet leads to loneliness, isolation and even alienation. Why is that? Because there is no face-to-face contact, there is no hand shaking and because sitting in front of a computer obliges you to stay indoors and not have any live human contact.

Where is the fun in that? Where is the physical and intellectual activity in that? Where is the skin-on-skin contact? Where is the real friendship? Are true friends behind an “asl pls”?…