Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Is Google Making Me Stupid?
I do not think that using Google is making me stupid. Lazier? Yes. But ultimately I think that for Google to have that much effect on a person depends on what one is searching and how much time they spend on the internet. However, Google has definitely changed the way I process information, in addition to how I search for it. Perhaps the use of the search engine has negatively affected my ability to focus on reading (as Carr discussed), but not so much that I would consider it to be making me stupid, in the truest sense of the word. The internet as a whole is a different issue, but strictly with Google, I think that the positives outweigh the negatives for the most part.
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I also agree that Google is making us lazier. I admit that I use it to answer online homework questions that I could have found in the book, but Google makes time management so much easier for me.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I find that reading anything on the internet is difficult because the screen has an effect on vision. Maybe the entire internet is to blame?