The article "Is Google making us stupid?", written by Nicholas Carr, talks about how the the internet is actually affecting our brians and how it changes the way we think about things we read on the internet and how, instead of reading a whole article, we just skim form topic to topic and we rarely return to the same article again.
This probably has had the strongest effect on me of all the aricles I've read so far for several reasons. The main is reason because it makes me look at how I actually read books myself and it startles me how I truely can't stay focused on the book for more than an hour and a half, tops, before I have to go to a new assignment or go listen to some music. The other reason it had an effect on me is cause it has me worrying about my reading because I've loved reading for as long as I can remember and I still do, but I've started to notice, since I read this article, that I have lost interest in the actual story line of the book and I now just read it because I feel as though I have to to get to the end. The last reason this had an effect on me is because I've always been taught that the more you read, the better your writing skills will be, but I've also noticed that as I write, even while doing this blog, I make mistakes that I have never done while writing before. And this opens up a couple questions for me. The first is, what will happen to the books if no one cares about reading them anymore? And what will this do to us if we dont have the focus to do something as simple as reading anymnore? All in all, my answer is yes, the internet is making us stupid.
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