Communication technology has never been faster or more accessible than today. Gone were the days of snail mails that took almost a month to reach their final lonesome destinations. Teenagers today have never been burdened by telephones heavier than a two-pound dumb bell. The youngest of the young today have the cell phone in one hand and the face glued to the Internet. They may be communicating…in more ways than one and in whatever reasons for that matter. The world has changed and shrunk immensely because of technology.It is this same technology also that blew our top this week – our prefect of discipline’s, the student activity coordinator’s and mine. Some imprudent seniors from Section Prudence took incriminating pictures and uploaded them to the Internet all in senseless glory for the world to see. I have been cautioning our students that though the Internet may be as important as man’s discovery of fire, it could also douse us all to cold for simply being insensitive and insensible.
Students should understand that the Internet is for all people of all ages. What pictures they uploaded that to them were saintly glorious may be obscenely absurd to senior netizens. Ours is a case of wrong judgment. We may be partly to blame; however, I would like to believe that our CL teachers have never missed setting good examples for our students. Our computer curriculum explicitly warns them of the dangers of technology too. Could it be that ours is a case far deeper than what the school can fathom?
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