Briana Weems
6-7th period
Google paper
Nicholas Carr wrote an article describing what exactly the internet is doing to our brains. Not only are our brains changing our thought process but it is also changing the way we read. He goes into great details about the affects and damage that the internet is doing to everyone. He talks to professional writers and psychologists about the affects of continuously using the internet.
Nicholas Carr talked to a friend who stated that the internet has definitely changed the way he reads. He was stated saying that “I’m just seeking convenience.” A lot of readers look for a easier way out and the internet definitely makes it easier. Instead of searching through books and spending ours at the library, you can talk 15 minutes in your home to go on a search engine like Google and type in exactly what you are looking for. You no longer have to ask a librarian or somebody else for help because the internet does it for you.
A study that Nicholas wrote about in his article talked about how people don’t read as much as they use to. They found that people used the sites as “a form of skimming activity”, meaning they browsed through to get exactly what they needed. Carr talked to another one of his friends who said that “even a blog that consists of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.”Before the internet you had to get the book or paper and read all of it until you found what you needed. Now days you can skim the article online until you find exactly what you are looking for and then be done with it. The internet makes it very easy where there is no longer the need to do all of that reading. However Carr is pointing out that now we are missing out on that extra knowledge we were getting before from reading the whole book or the whole newspaper.
Nicholas Carr also talked to a psychologist who agrees with him that the internet is not helping us. “Our ability to interpret text, to make sure the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction remains largely disengaged.” While reading anything on the internet a lot of things pop up. Pop ups about getting new emails, celebrity gossip, sales at stores, and others are a few examples. While our mind was on what we were reading, it is now completely distracted by this pop up and what it is talking about. Our concentration on one thing is completely gone and on to something else. This distraction is taking us away from learning something and on to spending something or helping consumers make more money.
Throughout Nicholas Carr’s article he talked about reading that’s convenient and straight to the point. He talked about how he himself hated reading long things and could tell that he was becoming a product of what the internet is making us to be. However he stuck to what he believed in and didn’t conform like the internet. His article was not just a couple paragraphs but 6 pages long. He stuck to his point that reading is fundamental and gave us all the evidence and proof that we needed to push that point across. We should all watch what he read and how much we read on the internet because reading is fundamental and that is the only way that our knowledge will grow.
6-7th period
Google paper
Nicholas Carr wrote an article describing what exactly the internet is doing to our brains. Not only are our brains changing our thought process but it is also changing the way we read. He goes into great details about the affects and damage that the internet is doing to everyone. He talks to professional writers and psychologists about the affects of continuously using the internet.
Nicholas Carr talked to a friend who stated that the internet has definitely changed the way he reads. He was stated saying that “I’m just seeking convenience.” A lot of readers look for a easier way out and the internet definitely makes it easier. Instead of searching through books and spending ours at the library, you can talk 15 minutes in your home to go on a search engine like Google and type in exactly what you are looking for. You no longer have to ask a librarian or somebody else for help because the internet does it for you.
A study that Nicholas wrote about in his article talked about how people don’t read as much as they use to. They found that people used the sites as “a form of skimming activity”, meaning they browsed through to get exactly what they needed. Carr talked to another one of his friends who said that “even a blog that consists of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.”Before the internet you had to get the book or paper and read all of it until you found what you needed. Now days you can skim the article online until you find exactly what you are looking for and then be done with it. The internet makes it very easy where there is no longer the need to do all of that reading. However Carr is pointing out that now we are missing out on that extra knowledge we were getting before from reading the whole book or the whole newspaper.
Nicholas Carr also talked to a psychologist who agrees with him that the internet is not helping us. “Our ability to interpret text, to make sure the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction remains largely disengaged.” While reading anything on the internet a lot of things pop up. Pop ups about getting new emails, celebrity gossip, sales at stores, and others are a few examples. While our mind was on what we were reading, it is now completely distracted by this pop up and what it is talking about. Our concentration on one thing is completely gone and on to something else. This distraction is taking us away from learning something and on to spending something or helping consumers make more money.
Throughout Nicholas Carr’s article he talked about reading that’s convenient and straight to the point. He talked about how he himself hated reading long things and could tell that he was becoming a product of what the internet is making us to be. However he stuck to what he believed in and didn’t conform like the internet. His article was not just a couple paragraphs but 6 pages long. He stuck to his point that reading is fundamental and gave us all the evidence and proof that we needed to push that point across. We should all watch what he read and how much we read on the internet because reading is fundamental and that is the only way that our knowledge will grow.
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