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This article was about spam and add blockers on the internet. It basically told us how the majority of people think if you’re blocking content, you’re overly sensitive and can’t take certain content which makes you weak in some way. However, many people suffer from PTSD and many people can not see certain images or they will have anxiety and maybe some other bad reaction to it. People are bombarded with millions of unwanted pop ups daily and some can not escape it because they are literally everywhere. For example, when I try watching free moves online there is always this horrible picture of open pores under ones skin and it makes me and the friends that I am with cringe inside. Images can shape our thought process and actions and in order. This article also mentioned cyber bullying and how it affects teens, children and even some women in the workplace that ay be dominated by men. People are harassed through the internet because it’s a mask to who you really are and what you are actually capable of doing. It gives the idea that there is a lot of abuse going on online, not only within ads, pictures, content pop ups and more but also through people and certain apps. The temporary solution to this problem may be to block sites and people however, it’s not going to fix the underlying problem of the free internet being a channel of abuse for many people. It is also said in this article that the millennials have a certain immune to this sort of abuse since they were the first young people exposed to this kind of internet and are used to the ads, pop ups and content that may randomly jump out at you. The older generations are more likely to be feel harassment over certain things like this because they aren’t used to it. Older generations are not used lots of things jumping out at you when you did not permit it to. They are used to things coming more slowly. Many older adults also have PTSD because of wars they might have fought in and such things of that nature. I believe one reason for the conflict is because they were used to a slower society and in recent years, America alone has  drastically changed te way we live through technology. Throughout the world, things re getting faster and more of the world is interconnected through the medium of the internet. Many of the older generation are struggling to keep up or they oppose it all in general. We have to find a common balance to fit the need of all the people that now live in this digital age so everyone can participate in our growing and advancing society.

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