People need to be more careful when posting about things because no matter what, it will always be permanent online. Jung’s “ The Negative Effects of Social Media on Society and Individuals” points out many reasons on how social networking has its flaws. The reasoning of cyber-bullying, false sense of connection, and lack of privacy should be pointed out to the ones who don’t understand what the negative effects are online. People are blinded by the addictive quality of networking than really seeing the problems of
Carr thinks that excessive use of the internet might cause permanent changes to the way our brains work and we don’t have to remember as much, because we have RAM (Random Access Memory). Carr suggests that due to all the choices and distractions the internet provides its user whilst searching for information, it ‘turns us back to our native state of distractedness’ (Carr 373). Carr feels like due to the constant quick thinking skills that the internet demands us to have; we are losing our higher order cognitive abilities gained from focus reading such as from a book. Our ability to think in a creative and reflective way is diminishing. Carr feels the automatic way of thinking means we are ‘losing our mental discipline’ (Carr 375).
Most be thinking very important right…… Well Damon Beres expresses how he felt about the process of getting into his dream college. We all know that of course college is no easy game, nor a fun relaxing process to begin with. Beres talks about
They can choose to engage in deep thinking activities. Too much of anything is not good for any one, and this also applies to internet usage. Scholars say that the price of technology is alienation and that this indicates that the more distracted an individual becomes, the less able they are to experience human emotions such as empathy and compassion. It is still too early to tell what the results of the future effects of the internet, but as Carr states, “An intellectual technology exerts its influence by shifting the emphasis of our thought. As the brain adapts to the new medium, the most profound changes will take place over several generations’
Uranchimeg Batbayar Professor Lynda Nichol ESL 52A 5 September 2 Does the Internet Make You Dumber? In the article “ Does the Internet Make You Dumber?,” Nicholas Carr discusses the question of if the internet make you dumber or smarter. Even though many people think that the Internet allows us to get a lot of information and makes life easier, it makes people fall into bad habits. The net regularly interrupts of our lives, and it makes people intersperse, shallow, and inattentive thinkers. Also, the Internet affects our brains.
CENSORSHIP Eunice Siu 9-5 As the Charter of Rights and Freedom states each person has his or her own right to express their own thought, belief, opinion, and expression. Especially, on the Internet, a place where most people are anonymous. A problem that can cause the content to corrupt our minds even more than it already has, the harm can effect generations that follow. Cyber-bullies who post the messages that are on the Internet can cause hurt feelings. Thus, the Internet Service Provider(s) [ISP(s)] should make it mandatory for whatever is being posted to have filters, blocks on the content (censoring)- a better filter than we have right now because the main filtering is mainly for pictures (Example: porn).
Vocational Education affects Mike Rose as he is not challenged intellectually, and is being abuse emotionally, but even after facing these problems, he learns to be social and appreciates diversity. Mike’s intellectual was working below his abilities. He lost interest in learning at school or in even paying attention he says, “During my time in Voc. Ed., I developed further into a mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver, and that affected the subjects I did have the wherewithal to handled: I detested Shakespeare; I got bored with history. My attention flitted here and there” (Rose 160).
“Grief in the Age of Facebook” is the article that causes people to think about their lives and eternal things in the age of advanced technologies. According to the author, life is too complicated and people whom we known or see everyday may show us we do not know them at all. People demonstrate their individuality from different aspects and an accident can take life. However, the author wanted to show that memories are those eternal things that help people remember those who have died. The age of Facebook contributes in doing it by means of promoting “memorizing” policy, introduced since 2005.
Response to Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants After reading this essay, I agree with Mr. Prensky that America’s youth is constantly leaning towards the uniformity of digital technology in society today. Each generation is becoming more dependent on technology than the last, consequently forcing them to subconsciously lose their ability to obtain information through books and other tangible resources. As human beings, when one of our five senses are weakened or lost, the remaining gets stronger. Therefore, in the same concept, when one sense is heightened another is weakened. This technological generation lacks what the “obsolete” society calls, sociably acceptable standards: Sociable standards such as finding information and research through
The world today, in most cases, is characterized by the last statement in the previous paragraph. Technology has come to be a catalyst in society today. Indeed, in some cases this technology undoes someone’s capacity to think, but certainly this is erroneous when you look at the big picture. Today, in contemporary society, the internet is used as a readily available knowledge database. One can spend hours on the internet obtaining new knowledge.