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Literacy. To me, the word literacy means that one has the ability to read and write. I think that people are not really losing the ability to do those things by using the internet, but I do agree that kids don't read for fun anymore. I would blame this on schools rather than the internet. Kids read stuff online because they can pick the subject of the stuff they are reading. At school, they have to read boring books, and it turns them off from reading. When i was younger i went to a private school and never was REQUIRED to read anything. I loved reading and would always be in the library looking for mystery books to read. When i got to public school I was so shocked that they made you read books. I had never done a book report, and when my leisure activity was turned into work, I started to hate reading, and still do. I think it is extremely important for english classes to turn to other forms of writing besides text-based things. Just because it is a published book does not mean it is interesting, and in today's world there are so many different forms of information besides scholarly articles. I think technology is a good thing. I disagree that it is making this generation stupid because we just know how to find more specialized information. We know what we want, and the internet is the place to find it. I still know how to read and write even though I don't have my nose in a book all the time, or ever for that matter. After all... this blog post and mostly everything we do for classes at FSU involve reading online, so people better get used to it, because it is easy to access an it works!