The Internet's Influence On Society

In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. population age 3 and over used the Internet. The internet has influenced today’s generation by having every answer to their questions just a click away. It has distracted people from learning and students from giving their full potential in school. The majority of people have started to rely on the internet for all their answers to their questions and without allowing our brain to have deeper thoughts. The internet has been taking our time away from learning and while technology is advancing; we as a society are falling behind. To begin, the internet has diverted students from learning. Society’s focuses on devices such as cellphones and laptops making students forget that school and learning are far more important for our futures. Nicholas Carr, author of “The Shallows,” writes about how before the internet, he was able to read a long article or book without any distractions. Soon after the introduction of the internet, his research concluded that reading long articles and …show more content…
Carr, in the book “The Composition of Everyday Life” talked about how the internet’s intent is to distract us and keep us surfing the web. As he mentions, “A new email message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration” (Carr 355). Companies like Google and other search engines’ goal is for society to keep searching the internet and open new information allowing them to post advertisements that generate money for those companies. We have compulsive behaviors that urge us to check our smartphones even though there isn’t anything to check. Society allows technology to advance while it hinders society from learning and wasting our