Dumbing Us Down

Do you get distracted easily? Have you stopped reading books and articles because they take to long to read? Well in Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What The Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” article in the Atlantic magazine, he states numerous details about how Google and the internet in general is making many people less focused and more lazy.

            Throughout the article, it states that the internet is making humans less literate and more apathetic about getting things done correctly. The quote “We are not only what we read, we are how we read,” said by Maryanne Wolf, means that if you read short crappy pieces of literary works you aren’t trying as hard as possible and by reading below your standards, you wont get much better at reading. It also says that Google is making researching easier. Instead of sitting in a library for hours looking for the information you need, you can just open up the internet and go to Google and search whatever topic you’d like. The article also says that the internet can be very distracting.
            Thoughts of mine about this article are close to the same as Carr’s. When ever I am doing an assignment on the computer, like this one, I often stop many times and check my Facebook, my grades, get on iTunes, and check many texts. Im petty positive that I read more texts chat messages and Facebook profiles (as said in “A Vision of Students Today” ), I also get up and “get a glass of water”, not really.  Thanks to the internet, its made reading books (that are long) a lot easier. The internet provides websites like spark notes, even with that I barely read books, I more like skim them. Also when I read books, I normally read a few paragraphs then stop because I would just rather be on the web. Personally I do think that google is making a lot of people stupider. But if people just cut back on how much they use the computer they won’t be tempted as much to be distracted by the web.