internet 101

Internet 101
by Vina A. Benemerito

When there was not any computer with internet connection which is being paid through inserting a peso coin in B.Rodriguez St., Cebu City yet, the residents (especially the children) used to play around the basketball court of their “Sitio”. The said court is used to be filled up with youths and kids..running and playing all around. Their parents/guardians will look for their children there, for that is supposedly where they can be found most of the time. The youths also are hanging out there and playing basketball.

By the time the said technology arrived in their place, almost everyone there wanted to use that technology in which you will insert a coin due to its affordability. The handler of those is a couple; they franchised this business and established this outside their house. The residents, not only the children and youths got so interested and engrossed with this but as well as the “young-at-heart” parents. They would just drop one peso and they can enjoy 5 minutes of internet surfing. Their attention (especially the children’s attention) was diverted from playing basketball and other Pinoy games into playing internet games and surfing the internet. They spent much of their time doing so. They used the internet unwisely.

As an outcome, the children are hurrying home so that they can enjoy playing the said technology. Their attention in their studies is drawn out by this technology. There was even an instance when they cut classes just to play the said technology and got failing grades, confessed by one of those kids. Their parents were pissed off and were alarmed by this situation that it made them tighten the rules to be followed by their children.