Technology has led to debate whether we are in the age of illiteracy or literacy. Because some researchers believe that the younger generation writes much more than any previous generation due to so much socializing that happens online, while others who think that this generation has produced more illiterates point to social networks as the cause. They believe that social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. are attributed to sloppy writing and careless reading. The use of short abbreviations or slangs like lol, brb has become the rage du jour. The use of technology has led to more people getting information from the blog, which has been criticized by many journalists who doubt the accuracy of the information; and even in the computer age, the use of paper dictionaries is rapidly falling into oblivion, because every word you need is found online. The words are very precise with their examples and you don't need an editor to know what a word means because you can easily look them up online. Students also learned to understand that they are writing to the public and therefore must be more creative, persuasive and organizational in their writing to make the public understand their point of view. It is believed that the previous generation rarely wrote a paragraph of their own and most students back then needed an interview before they could write anything. But with continued classroom writing in school and online, students have become proficient at writing. Many scientists have argued that online reading does not help people. Their research found that people simply glanced at each page they were reading, selecting individual words and pr...... middle of the paper...... even text messages, Twitter updates and Facebook chats have negatively affected some students. Most university professors complain about the way students use text messages, tweets or Facebook chats to post an essay, which they consider shocking and unacceptable. It could also cover most of the topics that blog writers might be biased with their information on. Take Fox News and MSNBC for example, anyone who wants to get accurate information may not trust either news network because they are sometimes biased and aim to promote the different agenda of the groups they support: conservatives for Fox News or liberals for MSNBC. Finally, it would be fair to say that technology has both positive and negative impacts. But it's okay to say that it has had a more positive impact in our society today and therefore makes people overlook its negative sides.