After having seen the interview with Mark Bauerlein, I started to think about what had been said and quite quickly I came to the conclusion that the expert had some positive and some negative arguments.
To my mind, it is not appropriate to generalize on teenagers and their usage of the internet and networks like “facebook” and others. It might be true that there are teenagers who spend most of their spare time surfing on the internet and forgetting the outside world. Nonetheless, there are also others who only try to use the internet as a research source and some networks as communication platform. Furthermore it could be argued that other cultural aspects such as literature, films etc do not receive the attention they should get, but on the other hand internet and networks can help teenagers/students in order to find their role and position in the society they live in.
So I would come to the conclusion that internet is getting more and more attention nowadays, but that we should not only consider the negative aspects of it. It depends on every single person (student) in what way and in what quantity he or she wants to use the internet. Nevertheless, other areas of culture (books, films etc.) should also be integrated in life. In order to achieve this, students, teachers, family and the society should work together. I would disagree with the expert who argues that the teacher has the whole responsibility in helping teenagers to “access to the adult world”.
