Growing Up With Technology Essay

Giselle S.

Jan. 9, 2018

Comp. 2

Growing Up With Technology Many people will argue that the children who grew up at the start of the twenty-first century do not know how to have fun or that all we care about is our electronics. I would argue that kids who grew up in the 2000’s are more informed about the world around us and have the potential to become more educated than older generations. Growing up at the start of the twenty-first century was such a great time to be alive, for the most part. I remember the first computer that my mother had bought. I was about eight years old and Miley Cyrus’ music video for “Party In The USA” had recently came out and all I did when I got on that computer was listen to that song. I also remember playing many games on that computer for hours with my little brother. Even though we had a computer in my family’s house we still played board games, went outside to play, and played imaginary games. I recall the times when we would do some of our assignments at school with books. I remember dreading the fact that I had to do a handwritten bibliography for my one page research paper that was probably due at the end of that week. Now that I am older and almost all of my

Vine was the place where people would make the most hilarious videos. I loved Vine. Vine was my favorite app, until I started using Instagram. Instagram was created in 2010, I did not have an account until 2014. Instagram is where you can edit and post photos and videos for your friends and other people to see. Instagram is my most used app and I think it has helped me become more aware of issues going on in the world. Another app I use frequently is Twitter. I enjoy using Twitter because that is the quickest way I receive news about important things that are happening in the moment. Twitter has also helped me make new connections with people and issues going on in the