Summary Of Miss Growing Up In Cyberspace By Brent Staples

In "What Adolescents Miss Growing Up in Cyberspace," Brent Staples argues that children that have easy access to internet connection have a difficult time maturing. He believes that because they have easy access to socializing through the internet, they lose important connections with adults. Staples uses the example of a boyfriend who doesn't meet his girlfriend's father in person, instead he meets him/sends him an email online. Not only does the internet provide ways to socialize online, it also provides online shopping, instant messages, and etc.which isolates young adults from having to interact with other people. Staples argues that although these young adults may be connected with a lot of people online, they could still experience loneliness.
I agree with Staples that the internet disconnects young adults from having interactions in person. As people start relying on their devices, they start to forget that they have to interact in person. For example, when families

The constant use of the device, can make a person feel as if they're nothing without the electronic device. In "Isolated by the Internet," Clifford Stoll states that the social ties online are not as strong as the relationships made face to face. He points out that often times people use the internet as an escape button from real life, "Where once people... would have worked within the real world and slowly learned how to deal with people, today they are able to turn to the Internet for solace and escape." When people connect with a lot of people online, they believe that instantly they become better at communicating with people. If you were to take away the electronic device from them, they wouldn't feel the same. On the other hand, those people would feel lonely, because all the communication they once had online, is not the same interacting with