Internet and the younger generation

Define internet!

Do you mean paying for things with plastic cards, or increasingly via a cell phone, so much that paper money and coins are increasingly for collectors, not shopping? I doubt that’s what you object to.

Do you mean the possibility of a hospital to access your medical records held elsewhere before they give you a fatal dose of a drug you are allergic to? I doubt that’s the problem.

Probably you object to use of graphic browsers to see “inappropriate” images – though in all fairness, people found ways to find inappropriate images long before there were computers, or photographs. Some of the oldest man-made objects known appear to be pornographic (and if you hold by our Torah as an historical document, that should not be a surprise).

However the increasing trend of younger people to get information in short bursts, with a high graphic content, rather than from reading and understanding texts is a real problem. Since frum Jews spend a lot of time pouring over documents, we’ll probably be the last ones with decent reading skills.

having heard some yeshivish people talking about their dates, i think many of them could benefit from watching a few episodes of “see dating.”

akuperma: Everything you said was 100 percent spot on.

With one minor exception:

Since frum Jews spend a lot of time pouring over documents, we’ll probably be the last ones with decent reading skills.

I’m sure you meant “poring.” I hope you meant “poring.” Please tell me you meant “poring.”