Negative Effects Of Rewiring The Brain

The complex rewiring of the brain is damage caused by excessive internet use. Equally important, the internet has a negative effect on how an individual think’s, read’s and retains information. The internet’s relevance to reading also has an impact on rewiring the human brain. Human beings brain’s neural networks are changing with reading in the course of the internet. Secondly, along with the internet rewiring the brain, the amount of time spent on the internet causes the brain to remember less. People who use the internet become scattered thinkers and focus less. One benefit of the internet is that it can stimulate the human brain in aging adults. By stimulating the brain, the nerves in the brain become lively. Although this is occurring, …show more content…
The internet is a network where any computer can link to information stored in it. The internet is almost everywhere and makes communication and information more accessible. The internet is used in school for students, at work, to play online games, and so on. Knowing that the internet is being used so much show how much time is being spent on it. With the amount of time spent on the net, also known as the “Internet,” the human brain is slowly changing resulting in disturbing thoughts. Without notice, the human brain is being reconstructed all because of the dependence people have on the internet. People are convinced that the internet has so much to offer, but unsuccessful results are occurring with the obsession of the World Wide Web, slowing the brain down. The internet is causing damage by rewiring the human brain, affecting users to be scattered thinkers, and impairing the brain by blocking it to remember any …show more content…
The constant use of the net is changing the brain and the way people think. Let us rewind back to when nobody had access to the internet because it was not invented. People relied on libraries, books, and journals. Nicholas Carr discusses how life is difficult to imagine without the World Wide Web (Carr, 2010). The internet affects how people think, read and remember. When a book is being read, information is being retained and can register into an individual’s long term memory. People can really analyze the text and the material read. With the internet, articles that are read online are skimmed briefly and are quickly forgotten because they register into the short term memory. So many distractions occur while browsing and reading on the internet. People are distracted and interrupted and personalities are hindered. On analytical tests and intelligent tests, Individuals who use the web perform worse than those who do not. The poor performance is due to the impairment of cognitive skills. Information that is absorbed is soon forgotten because it cannot be retained (Brain, 2010). The results are an internet-related side effect. “Google is making us stupid and intelligent at the same time,” (Whitney, 2010). Experts discuss that Google makes people intellectually lazy. With sources like Google, so many sites are available to answer questions and provide information. Rather than working out a solution, people are