Growing up online

I was not surprised...

1.  a lot of young kids first online social experience is club penguin.
2. A lot of kids are just looking at the spark notes instead or reading.
3. everyday more schools try to use computers in everyday classes.
4. not all of the students actually work in school stuff.
5.  some people have a very difficult time working on computers, but that is something that they have to change.
6. people create different identities in online games.
7. some try to like make up for traits they feel are cool.
8. they are anonymous and have competently different personalities online.
9. There are a lot of pedophiles on messengers and social networks.  
10. people try to have competitions where they have the most "friends"
11.  The adults pretend to be teens and convince other teens do the bad "stuff".
12. they get a lot of naked pictures of minors and publish them.
13. they also black mail the people.
14. People become very addicted to the internet.
15.  the internet can be very dangerous if not used correctly.

I was surprised...

1. That people start at such a young age to send pictures. i personally wouldnt do that and havent considered it.  
2. That asians seem to be better users of the Internet.
3. it was normal for people to gather to see youtube videos.
4. Antivirsues isn't the same as spyware.
5. the antivirus companies create viruses to see if there softwares work.
6. it is very easy for people to get control of your webcam
7. they can even make the light that tells you when it is working to turn off so you can't be sure.
8. Asians also play more online games
9. the internet isn't just a rich school problem it happens everywhere.
10. people would get together in public places to play stuff online.
11.  Lan parties and all of their functions.
12. the number of students that don't read.
13. how aware the teachers are about students using sparknotes.
14. Some teachers didn't really care if the students were paying attention or not.
15. even back then schools were trying to incorporate more technology.

How technology has changed since then...

1. now technology companies are the biggest in the world. 
2. now even kinder gardeners have smartphones.
3. books are read online not just sparknotes.
4.  the games have become even more interactive
5. people became more addicted to video games
6. there are apps that entertain in different forms.
7. people download for free the music.
8. social networking is now all in facebook.
9. people post public pictures all over the internet.
10. wikipedia is a big resource for info.
11. there are pages that will do your work if you pay and it is not plagiarism.
12. samsung and apple competing for the smartphone market.
13. people still send a lot of nude pictures. 
14. teens are killing themselves because of pedophiles that blackmail them with naked pictures.  
15. people don't call anymore now everything is with watsapps and i messages.