Exemplification Essay: Life Without A World Without Internet

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The world without Internet at this point is a world without air. This is what we have came to when you honestly think of how our society would function without air, I honestly do not this this generation can do it as a whole. How would you correct a habit if you cannot even allow yourself to live without Internet? I do believe this is why it is hard for society to live without something when we only just recently received it.

How would a habit be broken that nobody would want to be broken, if the internet was no longer then they would have to do their internet work on there own. If you are not even willing how can we expect this society to become any better, I honestly do not believe our society can grow as a whole due to the fact that we can barely live without internet it’s self for longer than a few hours if that. We also cannot grow as individuals if all you …show more content…

Although most people do not care would never walk into a library and or some would never even think to consider this outrageous thought. I have thought about this, actually I have thought about this thought a lot. How could we inspire people to start opening up books, or using a road map instead of Google maps, or to give up one of your social media sites for a week. I honestly think if there were a challenge in the United States the only people who would be able to survive this challenge would be the older bunch of people because the older group grew up with out having the entire world at the tip of their fingers. There are three year old who openly know how to run an ipad, now I do no even know how to run an ipad. Children in elementary school should not be doing rigorous work on computers they are much to young for that they should be doing this work with paper and pencil. Even once they get home their reward for most of them that I have experienced is on they get home it is TV, video game, little computer games or just time on their cell

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