I agree that the Internet is damaging our attention spans and reading habits. When we have a question that we can’t answer, we turn to the Internet. We Google it, is a term a lot of people use when they are searching Google for something. Google is our answer to almost everything. You can find anything on Google too.
Instead of us searching for our answer, we just type it into Google and we have an answer in almost seconds. Using Google makes our lives easier and gives us more free time to do other things. While this is making our lives easier it is doing more damage than good. It is getting us used to searching for everything quick and doing everything quick.
In Nicholas’s article called “Is Google making us stupid?, “he talks about the more that he uses the web the more he has to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing. Since we get so used to finding everything quickly, our brains only want to read short passages. We get discouraged when we see a long story. In the article I also read about how the brain has the ability to reprogram itself. If we wanted to go back to reading long passages, we would just have to reprogram our minds by reading books all the time.
Irene Pepperberg says” The Internet seemed to have given me a case of Attention Deficit Disorder, but did it really change the way I think, or just made it more difficult have the time to think. When we use the Internet we try to read quickly so we jump from one article to the next. In a sense we have ADD. We don’t even read all the words in an article anymore, we just skim through it.
There are many ways that the Internet is damaging us but we can change that. We just have to reprogram our brain.
Doing research for a project used to take a couple of days. I remember a couple of years ago when I had to do a project I would have to read my school books. Then I would go to the library, take out a book or two and read them. I would also do some research online. After all of that I would have enough information to write my report. Now all we need is the internet.
The internet is endless. You can find dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and everything we would need to do all our research and write a report in a couple of hours. The internet helped us advance in the way we do our work. If we didn’t have so much information on the internet, then I think school would be harder.
We have gotten used to getting the quickest answer. With Google, you can enter any words and millions of articles, etc comes up. The best ones come up first. We also end up looking for the shortest article. We read so much and so fast but we don’t want to sit and read a long article. We lose interest in it after a certain part of the article.
I read a lot of books, so when I have to read a long article, I already know what to expect. If it seems too long, and I start losing interest, I stop reading rest my eyes and then continue it.
Some people don’t think that the Internet changed the way they think. It has made them better. Our mind is like a machine. When machines can perform faster and more efficiently, they become better. Our minds become better because we program ourselves to read quicker and that in turn helps train us to do everything else quicker. We all have a limited time and we don’t know when it up. I think its better spent doing important things such as playing or helping kids. We would be wasting days just to do 1 paper. We would fall behind in school because we wouldn’t have enough time to do everything.
Google or the Internet is our way of life now. I cant wait to see what our future holds and how we advance more. Everything is already turning into hands free.
