Is Google Making Us Stupid?

I agree and disagree with the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?.” I agree that it has changed the way we read. We just skim the reading online or jump from one article to another. When I am online I know that if I find an article that is long I can find one that is shorter than that one or I scan the article. With the Internet it makes it easier to find what you are looking for unlike when you had to find a book or an encyclopedia to find it.

I disagree that Google is making us stupid I think that its not just Google it is the whole Internet that makes us not want to read or keep our attention. We usually have more than one page up at a time and jump from one thing to another when we are online. We also rely on the Internet too much anything we cannot remember we just go to the Internet and look it up. It makes us become dependent on the internet and not remember like we use to. If technology keeps going then the next generations to come will become totally dependent on the internet and will not have to remember anything. They will also become less likely to pick up a book when they can go to sparknotes or any website and find the summary or what they need to take a test. It will make them become less intelligent if they never read and always use the internet for there needs.

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I think that with the growth of internet that people do more collecting and sorting that actually looking at them images. Before Internet began to get really big people use to go to art shows to see the work and that meant they actually looked at it. Now with the Internet most people have multiple pages up and have other things going on around them. Many people glance at the image and go on to the next. People do not admire the work like they use to. Some people the only images that they see are on advertisements and they do not think about the work that have been put into it just that is a billboard or pop up. The Internet has increased the accessibility to get to see the images but I think that people abuse it. Instead of really looking at the images in person they would rather pull it up on a web page and look at it. The person that looks at it does not get other people’s opinion on the work. They do not think about the real meaning that the image is to convey. Many people just look at the physical things in the image when they glance at it. If they would take the time to look at it and really analyze that the photographer is thinking when they take the picture they would understand the work more. I believe that the internet will keep growing and collecting and sorting will become more popular than looking at them images.