Many people think that the internet is good for us, it gives us the information we need, and it makes our life easy. On the web site “think big” http://blogthinkbig.com/a-million-reasons-why-the-internet-is-good-for-you/ says that there is one million reasons why the internet is good for us, and a couple of their example are; the internet is good for our health that it help “ free of charge, about health, depression and sexuality”, the internet is good for our learning “Access to the internet can increase the number of graduates at all universities”, well for our economy “The internet creates jobs”, good for communication. They have excellent information backing up there claim, but what I think is that the internet is impacting us negatively.
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Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet ski.” - Nicholas Carr. In her article “Is Google making us stupid” I agree with her 110% because everything she says in the article is true. Not only the internet has affected us only but also extremely talented writers such as, Scott Karp, Bruce Friedman, Maryanne Wolf, and many more that she mention in her article, all these writers have something in common that they all stopped reading, they slowly stopped reading long books, it became harder for them to focus reading a long articles, the internet has made us so lazy that now we can look up a book and instead of reading it we can listen the the audio,we think that this might actually work but really we don’t pay attention to the book or to the audio. We don 't want to work for anything we want everything to fall into our hands. The Google company mission is to give use the information that we want in a matter of seconds, if you look up “what is Obama 's daughters name” is would come up less than a second, and it also shows you how many people looked up that same question the same time you did, which mean that everyone uses the interment to gather information or for their own entertainment, the more we research the things we want the more Google has more to give to people. [10 page 3rd paragraph]. the internet and technology is becoming our map, our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, our radio and TV. [8page 1st paragraph] the more we use the internet and our technology the more we desperately need it, we can go anywhere without our phones, we cant do anything without getting on the internet or social media, we are so hooked on things like, snapchat, facebook, twitter, youtube. We find things out by being on the internet an not everything on there is true, were so gullible that if it says that puppies can fly on December 21 of 2068 we will believe it, we so manipulated by
Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet ski.” - Nicholas Carr. In her article “Is Google making us stupid” I agree with her 110% because everything she says in the article is true. Not only the internet has affected us only but also extremely talented writers such as, Scott Karp, Bruce Friedman, Maryanne Wolf, and many more that she mention in her article, all these writers have something in common that they all stopped reading, they slowly stopped reading long books, it became harder for them to focus reading a long articles, the internet has made us so lazy that now we can look up a book and instead of reading it we can listen the the audio,we think that this might actually work but really we don’t pay attention to the book or to the audio. We don 't want to work for anything we want everything to fall into our hands. The Google company mission is to give use the information that we want in a matter of seconds, if you look up “what is Obama 's daughters name” is would come up less than a second, and it also shows you how many people looked up that same question the same time you did, which mean that everyone uses the interment to gather information or for their own entertainment, the more we research the things we want the more Google has more to give to people. [10 page 3rd paragraph]. the internet and technology is becoming our map, our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, our radio and TV. [8page 1st paragraph] the more we use the internet and our technology the more we desperately need it, we can go anywhere without our phones, we cant do anything without getting on the internet or social media, we are so hooked on things like, snapchat, facebook, twitter, youtube. We find things out by being on the internet an not everything on there is true, were so gullible that if it says that puppies can fly on December 21 of 2068 we will believe it, we so manipulated by