Internet Access for Students Should be Limited

Nowadays, we are being surrounded by different enhancement in our

environment and daily living. We are already in the 21st century in which all that
we need is accessible and easy to use which is why we are being dependent. We
already experienced the advancement of technology wherein it helps us to make
our daily living easy to deal with. Talking about technology enhancement, let’s
have this as our focus, internet access. Internet is very important today because
most of the transactions can be found and accessed through the internet, especially
to those students, with its help, it will help them to get things done. In our
generation today, with the involvement of technology specifically the internet, it
should be limited in access to students especially those prohibited sites which are
not suitable for young children or students. Internet access for students should be
limited because it might affect their health, make them more isolated, and distract
their studies.
Internet access should have limited access to students because it might
affect their health. Unlimited internet access has the potential to affect the
psychological and actions of children, especially if there is no control over the
content they access. Children who are constantly staring at a cell phone screen,
either playing games or exploring social media, have the potential to experience
problems with sleep disturbance (Aida, 2019). This occurs because exposure to
light can be distracting, making them difficult to sleep. Satria Aditama (personal
communication, December 9,2019) said “ I often forget to eat and sleeping late at
night while playing games.” “Playing games too long also makes my eyes sore.”
he continued. Children who have been struggling with the internet for too long
have become less sensitive to their surroundings. Usually, they have a tendency to
be less interested in relationships in real life. If that happens, the tendency for
children to experience depression in the future can be greater.
Internet access without limits will make students more isolated. In Culture
and Youth’s (2014) review of the article Researchers worrying as teens grow up
online (2000) stated teenagers seem increasingly isolated and less adept at
interpersonal relationships after spend at least one-two hours a day on the internet.
Turkle (2000) (as cited in Culture and Youth’s review of the article Researchers
worrying as teens grow up online, 2014) explains “We’re not only looking at what
the computer can do for us but what are they doing to us.” Teens who used
computers, even just a few hours a week, showed increased sings of loneliness
and social isolation. Technology has a way of making powerful tools accessible,
but technology cannot question its own impact on human life. With the rapid
growth of information technology, it makes it easier for the entry of things that
smell pornography, porno-action, or violence. The Internet is typically praised as
a wonderful way of helping people become more connected to the world, yet it
can promote habits of isolation and addiction. If life becomes all too ‘virtual’,
very real social and psychological handicaps will arise.
Unlimited internet access will distract the student to become unfocused
with their studies. In the real world, adults' attention span has decreased, while
their attention to the cyber world has increased due to social media, such as
Facebook and Twitter. These sites are so popular that even Elementary students
have an account. In this predicament, all students are so glued to their accounts,
that they message their friend who is either right next to them, or in another class.
“Sometimes when the teacher is busy explaining, I am not paying attention
because I am playing social media.”(Angga Wiranata personal communication,
December 9, 2019) When taking tests, they could use messager to cheat or they
could use the popular search engine called Google. Another internet site that
greatly grabs people's attention is YouTube. Where students should be studying
for upcoming tests, they are watching videos. If we can limit their access to the
internet, or even turning it off during tests, it could increase the student's attention
in school and possibly help them achieve better grades.
As we all know,the internet is very important nowadays because it helps
us to get things done. However, the internet does not always have a positive but
also a negative impact because of this negative impact internet access must be
restricted especially for students. These negative effects basically down to the way
teens use the internet and how much they understand about the internet. These
problems may be avoided if they are guided way by an adult in order to be able to
distinguish what’s good and what’s not and teach them how to avoid prohibited
sites on the internet. The internet needs to be limited for the students, so student’s
attention would be more focused on their studies, it will not lead them to do
negative activities which can cause negativity to the society, and not worrying
about what’s going on in the social media world. They should have only access to
relevant information which will help their needs in school.
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