This week’s topic “Reality, Authenticity & making Sense of it All” is the closing topic for the blogging. And it is covering the rest of the material. The articles and the materials give for this topic is all relevant to the topic.

Starting from the article, “Addicted to Distraction” the author has made the discussion about how we are so addicted to the things that make us distracted. He raised the point that when a person has access to so many seductive things, he/she would get distracted so easily. He further said that: “It’s not only substances that can be addicting; it’s activities as well. If an activity compulsively pulls you toward it to the extent that you shirk responsibilities, fail to finish projects, neglect your relationships and more, and consider yourself addicted to distraction.”

The next article: “The Kids Are Not Alright” the author mentioned the story of a young man who used to have a shelter when he was studying and when he passed out he was left all alone and he had to have a gun with him all the time. After sometime, he was gotten out of jail after serving six months for gun charge. The author said that: “In recent decades, policy makers have recognized early childhood as a critical developmental period. Yet emerging science indicates that young adulthood may be just as significant. Early adults’ brains are still developing, and, as Kim writes, it’s an important transition time, when one learns to live on one’s own. Universities and colleges provide support for young people who are fortunate enough to attend. But we’ve done little to help young people who come from families of limited means.”

He mentioned in the article that kids who used to get raised in a poor neighborhood or children from the foster houses are more vulnerable as compared to other children. So these children end up having an insecure future and bad habits and thus fall in crime. I felt this thing, I think there should be proper policies and these policies should implemented in order to protect the rights of such children.

What do you guys think about this fact? Do you agree that policy makers should make it clear that policies are being implemented or not?

The next article: “The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy” the author said that the internet was always bad, but at least it used to be fun. At the start of this decade, being online still had less of the feeling of chaotic good than the years preceding it, but it wasn’t yet consumed by the monolithic forces that rule today’s web. Since the turn of the millennium, we’ve been used to the flood of emerging platforms — Myspace, Xanga, Friendster, Napster, Flickr, Tumblr, Neopets — each vying to be a better version of the last.

The author further added that “As user experience became more seamless, we began to miss the internet’s seams. We used to begrudgingly click through individual pages and archives — now everything has an infinite scroll. Where we once felt in control of the amount of a site we wanted to see, feeds now pull us down and down into the ever-widening abyss.”

I agree with the author. The internet had given us many of the problems as compared to the benefits. What is your opinion about this fact?

Keeping in view this week’s topic, I am going to share an article relevant to it foster children and the crime rate.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1541204020939643