The Internet Is Changing The Way We Think

How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think The Internet is a continuously growing aspect in today’s society, especially in the terms of how it affects the way we think. Google, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are just a few of the several sites that people today are constantly craving gratification from. The Internet has taken actions in many categories that affect the way we think such as our attention, memory, and even the perception of ourselves. In this age of technology the Internet seems to have taken control over our everyday lives by influencing our behaviors. Attention plays an important role in the process of thinking. Without attention the other aspects of thinking such as memory, perception, creativity, problem solving, language, …show more content…
Memory is a process in which the mind stores information so that it can later be recollected for useful matters. However, the Internet is affecting the functioning of the memory process in people today. With the Internet being such a vast system even a typical session of social media browsing can cause an information burden and make it harder to store information in memory. The thought process of the brain when memory occurs is linked to connections of personal actions and experiences, therefore, searching the Internet for information causes the memories to be free because it is not tied with personal information so the thought process is only able to store bits of the information inquired from the Internet. For example, “If you can only remember the places to look for answers rather than the answers themselves, then even these dots will not be learned and therefore cannot be joined up with other dots to form an individual perspective of the world” (Greenfield 209). When this consistently happens the thought process begins to rely on the Internet and the constant storage it contains to replace the job of making memories to be stored. People today depend on the use of the Internet to hold their information because they cannot relate their findings on the Internet to specific incidents so it is harder for them to process a memory of the information learned. This refers back to the idea of …show more content…
This perfectly yet fake image on social media causes huge problems for other users of the Internet. People in today’s society look on the Internet and start to think about all the things that are wrong with their self image based off of the comparison of these fake people. Furthermore, this leads to the idea of the amount of likes and comments that are received on a picture or post on the Internet. Likes and comments on pictures mean a lot to some Internet users; many teens today constantly try to make perfect pictures just to receive the most likes and comments. These likes and comments cause teens to constantly crave the Internet for they believe having lots of followers or likes and comments makes them some type of famous. This idea goes to show how the Internet has changed the way we think, because people today are famous not for the purposeful reasons they used to be, but just for simply having other Internet users crave their pictures or post. These famous users, however, also make other Internet users feel invisible and cause another affects on self perception. Some people who view the images of the famous Internet users become very jealous and self conscious by the idea of these perfect people. The Internet gives people today an endless amount of people to