Anti Social Context

Decent Essays
Provide background information and context. Include a definition of the term ‘anti-social’

- Anti social can be defined in this context as behaviour that consists of hostility, or relating to a pattern of behaviour in which social norms and the rights of others are persistently violated.
State your thesis (your overall position) using a complete sentence

The current generation has grown up surrounded (by rapidly advancing technology, such as the internet. Due to these (advances, socialisation and communication has been disrupted, and the results are showing a growing prevalence in anti social youth.
Outline the arguments you will use to support your thesis

1. Isolation can occur as an effect from excessive use of the internet.

2. Addiction
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This data has progressed since 2008 and the current data of…

Counter argument:
Many believe that isolation is a pathway that adolescents

Refutation of counter argument:

Argument 2 Sources
Write the topic sentence using a complete sentence

Through the use of computers and the internet, the excessive use can lead to Internet addictions.
Excessive use of computers and the Internet can lead a young person to a dependence on technological vices.
Research on Relationship Among Internet-Addiction, Personalitys Traits and Mental Health of Urban Left-Behind Children. GJHS, 7(4).

(Ge, Se and Zhang, 2014) (ACMA, 2008)
Supporting sentences (explanations, examples, evidence)

- These addictions can lead to Isolation and many interpersonal complications

- Out of 796 urban left-behind children 10.8% of the urban left-behind children were addicted to internet the urban left-behind children were more likely to get addicted to the internet than non-left-behind children.
(Ge, Se and Zhang,
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Adolescents Online: The Importance of Internet Activity Choices to Salient Relationships
Julie J. Blais Æ Wendy M. Craig Æ Debra Pepler Æ
Jennifer Connolly
Supporting sentences (explanations, examples, evidence)
- The different activities that are done online effect differently towards particular relationships.
- Internet activity choices influence relationship quality in both best friendships and romantic relationships. (Julie J et al. 2007) Counter argument:
The internet is known as another form of communication, the advancement has given young people another form of this, as well as allowing young people to connect and stay in contact with people in a way which would not have been possible in the pre Internet era.
Refutation of counter argument:

However due to the lack of social skills being developed, it is believed, with our current knowledge, that the effects of this will expand and complicate their further development of their social skills.

Conclusion
Re-state the thesis in a different

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