Satire
Here is my satire that Andi and I wrote for AP Comp. Let me know what ya think...
Lack of Survival Instincts Plummet as Technology Skyrockets
“Meeting strangers is dangerous?” asks naïve teenaged girl.
“Nothing can go wrong.” Isn’t that what everybody says about everything? Well it sure seems to be what everybody says right before they end up having something go terribly wrong. You can’t even give your complete trust to the ones you “love.” But shouldn’t you be able to? I mean seriously, if you love someone shouldn’t you be able to trust them? Not always…
There’s this thing in the twenty-first century called internet dating. And no, for the ones that aren’t as technologically savvy, it’s not where you hook two computers up and watch them kiss. Actually, you find someone online and might develop “feelings” for them. Computers make our lives easier in many ways. But would you sleep with a computer and let it caress you with its wires? I didn’t think so. So why date over the internet?
Some people seem to try for “love.” But you can’t really “love” someone you’ve never even met. You’re just loving a computer screen that has no feelings and whose heart beats only with the pulse of the music you’re playing on it. There are over six billion people in the world and I guess some people just want the “simplicity” of online dating without actual commitment; but I’m sorry, I wouldn’t trade ten pages of “loving” phrases from someone on the internet for a hug or kiss from someone I can really love any day. You don’t know what’s really going on.
Come on people, OPEN YOUR EYES!!! You can sit and stare at a screen all day but you can’t see anything. And it’s normally the guys that try to fool around with stuff. For all the girls out there, that man that you say you “love” online and who claims to be 18 and to “love” you too could really be some fat, sweaty, perverted 40 year old man who is just looking to get off on easy prey. Every year hundreds of children and teenagers are kidnapped by the people they meet online and that they claim to “love” or that claim to “love” them.
And parents invite these people into their homes! Nowadays almost every child has his or her own computer and most of those that do also have access to the internet. You know, computers do let you retrieve email and aide in homework and some online courses, but computers also bring in all of the things that you want and need to protect your children from. You say, “Nothing can go wrong” and “Nothing can happen” but you don’t realize until it hits your family that there are PERVERTS out there. It’s not like your child is coming up to you with a fluffy stray dog going, “Can I keep him?” No. It’s more like the 40 year old pervert on the other end of your child’s internet connection going, “You’re so cute. I love you so much. I’m going to come get you and keep you.”
So when you think nothing can possibly happen, THINK AGAIN! Online dating might be good for some people but it doesn’t just suction itself to them. “Nothing can go wrong.” Yeah right. Kids think that they’re invincible and nothing can happen to them. They only fall and scrape their knees and cry. But they’re invincible. And, believe it or not, this misconception grows stronger and actually causes immaturity as they grow older! Things happen and you need to prevent them or live with them. But they do actually occur. “Love” or love, it’s up to you.