Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Destiny Massey

English 100O

In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, he tends to talk about the internet in not just a horrible way but also shines through the importance of the internet and what we have learned from it.

In his article Carr talks about how the internet has made things a lot easier for him such as looking up information that once required you to go to the library and look things up. Carr also states in this quote that, “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer.” He says this quote mainly to explain that without the internet he wouldn’t be able to find the information he needs very fast and would have to spend hours looking up the information at the library.

Carr also states that the more you begin to use the internet the more you have to fight to stay focused on what you’re doing. For example many teenagers around the world and some adults use digital media in order to get their points across. Digital media such as Facebook, MySpace, and twitter are merely gate ways to losing your focus on something you need to get done.

In one of Carr’s paragraph an author by the name of Scott Karp, who writes a blog about online media and how it effects people recently explained that he stopped reading books altogether because he has started to read books using the internet instead. Carr also tells about the influence the net has on us as human beings. While you’re using the internet you’ll notice texts that crawl and pop up ads that try and make you believe you’ve actually won something.

As Carr explains the internet can be a useful thing as long as we use it properly and correctly. There is not such thing as a perfect search engine or a perfect site to find the correct data. As Carr once quoted, “The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and bigger hard drive.”