Internet Addiction
1. State the author’s thesis in your own words. Then, using the guidelines on pages 126-27, evaluate the effectiveness of the thesis. Answer: In the article, “Internet Addiction”, Greg Beato’s main purpose or main idea is about how Internet affects people’s lives because of being addicted on the Internet.
The author states that people that are addicted on the Internet turns out to be out of their minds and having some kind of disorder. He explains and gives examples specifically of people being addicted on the Internet.
He also cites lots of evidence to support his thesis statement. The first evidence that Greg Beato put up to is about how many people are using Internet on their daily life basis. Greg Beato said, “The internet is a tool that many of us use on a day-to-day basis. We use it to communicate, interact socially, keep up-to-date with news, play games, took up information and provide us with an unending supply of inspiration and entertainment”.
And lastly, an 18-year-old guy who chose to move out from his parents rather than to quit playing Internet games. Many teenagers had lost their social life because their attention is all about video and Internet games. They don’t have the time to interact to people because their focus is to stay at home and play all day. Greg Beato said, “In 2007, an Ohio teenager shot his parents, killing his mother and wounding his father, after they took away his Xbox”. 137)
Worst scenario was because of too much attached from the video and Internet games, people lost their minds and began to kill at some reason. The author specifically writes about how the use of too much Internet affects our mental ability. He also writes about the program reSTART; a treatment for the Internet Addiction disorder. The author gives specific examples and explanations and focuses on one central point. Moreover, the evidences that the author put make his article more coherent.
2. Cite one paragraph from the essay in which you think the author provides detailed, specific information. Explain why you chose it. Does it support the thesis? Why or Why not? Answer: Granted, 3 percent is an awful lot of people…Cosette Rae tells me about a Harvard student who lost a scholarship because he spent too much time playing games, a guy who spent so many sedentary hours at his computer that he developed blood clots in his leg and had to have it amputated, and an 18-year-old who chose homelessness over gamelessness when his parents told him he either had to quit playing computer games or move out.
I chose this paragraph because it provides detailed and specific information about the author’s article, “Internet Addiction”. I also chose this paragraph because it supports the main idea or the thesis statement. It tells how using of too much Internet affects us human kind and lead us to do stupid things. This paragraph gives us details about how Internet can make us different and can make us build a new personality.
