In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” about technology Nicholas Carr argues that technology changes the way that we think. Technology is causing people to have a harder time reading a lengthy text. People are always online and finding information extremely quickly, the internet chips away at peoples concentration and therefore makes it harder for them to stay focused on long texts because they are getting used to the immediate answers. When people are researching online they’re usually jumping from source to source and just skimming over the articles. The way we read today is much different than how we read in the past, the internet causes us to read efficiently and get immediate feedback which may be weakening our capacity for deep
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Reading on the internet causes it to be harder to read longer lengths such as books because you are so used to reading fast on the internet and getting your information immediately. When I read books or longer texts I usually get distracted or bored easily because I have a hard time staying focused. I’m always on the internet and find out what I want to know really quickly so having to read longer lengths takes longer for me to find out information and I lose my concentration. It usually takes me a long time to finish books because I’m always getting distracted or bored and stop paying attention to what I’m reading. My grandparents are the opposite they can read for hours and they won’t get bored or distracted because most of the time they aren’t looking things up on the internet or using a lot of technology as much as I am so they are used to the old ways and aren’t effected by the internet as much as younger generations are. A lot of the time when I’m reading online I won’t actually read the whole thing I usually just skim through it and find out information because it’s faster and easier than reading the whole thing. Many people in school will look up questions on the internet just to find an answer to a question for a class and won’t really learn anything because they don’t understand why that’s the answer, but because it’s faster and easier and gives them the answer they don’t typically care if they’re actually learning. The internet is full of all different medias, so when I’m on certain sites I get distracted by ads or other things that interest me, if I’m writing a paper I often lose my place because a message or notification will pop up so I leave the paper and look at it. In psychology we were learning about the brain and how neurons create new connections and lose old
Reading on the internet causes it to be harder to read longer lengths such as books because you are so used to reading fast on the internet and getting your information immediately. When I read books or longer texts I usually get distracted or bored easily because I have a hard time staying focused. I’m always on the internet and find out what I want to know really quickly so having to read longer lengths takes longer for me to find out information and I lose my concentration. It usually takes me a long time to finish books because I’m always getting distracted or bored and stop paying attention to what I’m reading. My grandparents are the opposite they can read for hours and they won’t get bored or distracted because most of the time they aren’t looking things up on the internet or using a lot of technology as much as I am so they are used to the old ways and aren’t effected by the internet as much as younger generations are. A lot of the time when I’m reading online I won’t actually read the whole thing I usually just skim through it and find out information because it’s faster and easier than reading the whole thing. Many people in school will look up questions on the internet just to find an answer to a question for a class and won’t really learn anything because they don’t understand why that’s the answer, but because it’s faster and easier and gives them the answer they don’t typically care if they’re actually learning. The internet is full of all different medias, so when I’m on certain sites I get distracted by ads or other things that interest me, if I’m writing a paper I often lose my place because a message or notification will pop up so I leave the paper and look at it. In psychology we were learning about the brain and how neurons create new connections and lose old