Prioritizing the Internet

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This post by Bart Cleveland is about young professionals who don’t prioritize their work over surfing the Internet.

Mr. Cleveland says that he is concerned about the future because the young professionals are not focused on their work, they are instead focused on surfing the Internet. I have a couple opinions about this.

Firstly, I agree that there are people who definitely don’t know how to prioritize. BUT, I don’t think this has much to do with focus. The Internet has been a great asset to the work place. It helps us all to be more productive, be more creative and do twice as much in the same amount of time. Procrastination wasn’t something that magically appeared with the Internet. People who spend time on the web instead of on a golden opportunity are just lazy- and that is their problem.

Secondly, as “young people,” we were raised with Internet. We were raised to multi task and complete many projects at once. I wouldn’t say that the Internet distracts us from our work because we understand how to work with it. Let’s face it, we live in an A.D.D. society and we all need to keep up, even those who are not so “young.” Instead of blaming the Internet for unfocused work, employers should appreciate the new and creative ideas that develop because their employees know how to work with the web.