This Is Your Brain Analysis

To Read, or Not to Read: That is the Question To be a social guru one must trek through the treacherous minefields of tantalizing tales, mesmerizing messages, preposterous posts and possess an insatiable need to know what is “going down in the DM” (Yo Gotti). A great internet connoisseur feels the need to stay ahead of the latest online content, from acronyms and apps to emojis and memes. Social relevancy demands that the reader scroll through a barrage of news feeds and scan through everything that comes across the screen or enters the inbox. According to the online article, “This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain on #Content,” author Chelsea Hassler asserts, the quality of online content affects language skills. The leisure of perusing through the growing online articles of #whatever my heart desires may come at a steep price to your intellectual health. The online article, “This Is Your Brain …,” highlights evidence that associates literature content to the increase or decrease of reading and writing comprehension (Hassler). Hassler’s article defends a new study …show more content…
Consequently, I struggle to focus long enough to read lengthy articles and prefer to browse quickly through smaller amounts of information. I tell myself that I am just one click away from the necessary information to identify the reason for the story. I rationalize my behavior by thinking, surely, every social surfer has experienced the thrill of discovering the latest tidbit of juicy gossip, instead of reading a thought-provoking article, or fallen victim to the urge to click on the next hyperlink within a hyperlink, within a hyperlink. Prior to reading Hassler’s article, I never contemplated whether the information I was reading was content-worthy or even wondered if the content had any effect on macro and micro-skills, as substantiated in Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our