There are many reasons to worry about it. This social media is hurting our society in such way that it causing harm to one’s privacy, it disseminates misinformation, and effect on student’s grade. It is clear that social media is hurting our society by putting one’s privacy and security at risk. In the article “Teens Privacy Is Threatened by Social Networking” author Peter Bazalgette said, “Can you truly delete entries from social networking sites with the confidence they no longer exist on a server somewhere? You cannot” (Bazalgette p.1).
And accuracy further reduces speed. With up to 7.8% of tested sites being wrongly blocked you begin to wonder if Conroy is trolling. And of course with such dodgy plans for censorship, there is a strong opposition. Also opposing the filter is internet superpower Google. They comment that "moving to a mandatory ISP filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such material (child abuse and terrorism) is heavy handed and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information."
Google: Dumbing Down Society Does the Internet make us stupid? Or does it simply allow us to become more efficient? The answer is yes to both, and these are questions that come to mind while reading an article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. If you were born in the early 90’s or before, it is safe to assume you have witnessed the rapid evolution of technology, which has now led to the simplicity of tasks that used to require a great amount of time and effort. In this article, Carr explains to us the ways in which he believes that technology has affected our society.
Not only does Carr believe this but states others, including friends and colleagues are also experiencing this affect. Carr’s goal is to push readers to think more critically about the negative impact internet usage can have on one’s ability to read and articulate articles. Although Carr provides some anecdotal evidence it is not sufficient evidence to prove that Google is making us stupid. In completing a critical analysis of Carr’s essay I will examine both the weaknesses and strengths of his argument and provide research and literature to support my belief that Google is not in fact making us stupid. Carr begins his essay by saying “I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling that over the past few years someone, or something has been tinkering with [his] brain”(91).
Is Google Making Us Stupid? 9/30/2012 ENG140 Introduction to Writing Kanesha Howard In Nicholas Carr’s story “Is Google Making Us Stupid” his main point is the question, is quick access to the internet making humans more impatient to read and want to skim through stuff more. This story is a very well informative story. Carr uses google as a metaphor for the wider internet. When Carr asks the question is google making us stupid, he may have set an alarm for many.
Google is by far the worst example of an information supplier, in that, a search on Google can inundate the reader with an outlandish list of results. The majority of these results are often not what most educators would consider scholarly work, but instead opinion and conjecture. Wikipedia on the other hand, advertises itself as an encyclopedia type service. While their information is rather extensive and referenced for the reader, its basic flaw is that it is collaborative software. It allows its contributors to freely edit the content that is broadcast through the internet.
Visualize every search you make and every purchase you make online affects every news and ads your given. So if you’re only given what you know, then how can you discover what you don’t know? The Filter Bubble written by Eli Pariser, is an excellent argument against the very personalized internet we are given today. Pariser helps us understand how to much personalization is dangerous and how it makes for a more narrow minded, dumb, and biased community. He explains how this is done silently and how we don’t really notice it, because
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr Thesis: As the Internet becomes our primary source of information, it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives. This process of rewiring our brains carries the danger of flattening human experience even as it offers the benefits of knowledge efficiency and immediacy. 1) The author begins the article with a description of the closing scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey when Dave dismantles the memory circuits of Hal, the artificial brain that controls the space ship. 2) The author feels that someone has been tinkering with his brain, making it change.
SOPA AND PIPA SOPA will have a far reaching effect on the Internet community. It is your right to know the negative and positive effects this will have on you as an internet user. What is Washington's Stand on SOPA? For years authorities have been lamenting the lack of law that will hold in court to convict perpetrators of online piracy and counterfeiting. On May 12, 2011 a bill was proposed to the Senate to address this deficiency, the Protect IP Act or Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.965.IS).
Nicholas Carr and Clay Sharkey debate whether or not the internet is actually making us smarter or dumber. “Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives- or exerted such broad influences over our thoughts, as the internet does today. “that is one of Carr’s viewpoints. Shirkey believes that “every increase in paperback book to you tube, alarms people accustomed to the restrictions of the old system, convincing them that the new media will make young people stupid. This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.” I tend to agree more with Sharkey because there are a lot of learning toold we can gain from the web.