This is my blog post about Slate's blog post about blog posts.
The young generations of today have grown up surrounded by an exponential progress in technology, and since its basically all they've ever known, they do not question what it means for humankind. I believe technology has only encouraged the lazy side of humans to emerge more often. I know people who barely know how to spell and even write in an understandable script when denied the use of a laptop. Students who become the exceptions in Standarized Tests and AP Exams, because of so and so condition that allows them to only be understood in print through the use of a technological device rather than pen and paper. My point for this blog post is the following: the shortcuts that technology has enabled us to use in our daily lives has lowered the standards for the understanding of the technology itself. I think people don't understand simple concepts such as the difference between a blog and a blog post, not because they're incapable, but because they don't deign to even attempt to understand it. Western civilization, wrapped in all its technological cushions, is paving the way for a culture that instead of wanting to understand, simply assumes that because of similarities, two very different things can be classified as one and the same. Notice how this is something that happens with rather new concepts. People don't confuse an article with a magazine; they confuse a blog with a blog post. These are examples Slate shows us in his blog post about blog posts. It is nonetheless irrefutable that technology has its perks, and to the educational system blogging is one of them. Regardless, learning about blogging and its use is as important as the material being shared and blogged about.
