“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.
According to one article in Science magazine, we're not necessarily losing our ability to remember things. Rather, the internet is changing how we remember things. Certain types of memory are improving as well, when the brain reroutes how we recall information, it develops different types of memory capabilities. Also, multitasking sometimes makes your memory worse as well. In other words, as we get older, we have a harder time with distractions online with the Internet, Facebook, and such.
The Man Who Mastered Fear Mark Estrada He started AA in Detroit, after running from fear for 18 years. He tried to dissolve his fear with alcohol, but found later that he had two problems instead of one fear and alcohol. He came from a good family and was fluent in 3 different languages. He entered the business world with confidence followed by success. There was a lot of traveling in his life and his first year out of college was very busy with dances and diner parties and he was free from abnormal fear.
At the surface, it seems like Google would be considered as a helpful research tool—pages and pages of information are just a few keystrokes away! However, Google has as many disadvantages and advantages. According to Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid, the search engine is changing the way he processes information. “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.
Florence Foster Instructor David English 102 11 January 2011 I have chosen to write about Brent Staples “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow up in Cyberspace.” Staples argue that “so called online communities isolate adolescents and hinder their social development” (241). Which I believe to be true, but the world as we know it, is becoming very advanced to technology. So that would basically leave adolescents with two decisions, either they have to jump on board with technology, or be left behind. Which would you prefer? Social interactive technologies, such as instant messaging and texting messaging are beginning to redefine the social networks of today’s youth.
He states that even as a writer his mind struggles to keep focused on a book, something that is new to him. He blames this on the internet, which he describes as “The perfect recall of silicone memory” (2). He uses his friends as examples, stating that “..many are having similar experiences” (2). While impossible to tell if this fiction or not, one can reason that he’s most likely stating fact. Carr does bring up facts from a London study where results suggest that internet readers aren’t reading in traditional methods and that they do not absorb the text that they are reading.
Perhaps the sensational changes in the technological world might raise divergent opinions on the fate of the current generation. Philosophers in particular are perturbed by the way the internet is wasting away the traditional methods of research and the natural intelligence of the mortal man. In Carr’s essay; ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ Carr alludes from Socrates’ view that people would be thought of as, “having knowledge when they are actually illiterate due to the unorganized internet knowledge.” It is also a worry by scholars that the internet may at great extend induce laziness amongst students on a claim that they will lose the habit of looking for books and reading them (Carr 533-541). Carr is particularly worried that his level of concentration is not to the maximum. The author admits that when goggling, he would sometimes, “sneak into other pages because of some attractive features or because of curiosity and forget about his work.” However, his opinion is baseless as internet - Google in specific - will actually sharpen the society’s knowledge and expound their level of thinking (Carr 533-541).
In all I’ve spent about 10 hours riding in his truck, just listening to him talk about his life and what he thinks about my relationship with his daughter. This is a conversation I surely would not have had if I were not riding in his truck. If there was any way to escape, I would have. In the end, though, it is worth the long boring conversations with my girlfriend’s father if it helped get her into a rehabilitation facility and bring her one step closer to becoming a functioning member of society while building a friendship with her
A good solution might be to block the access to websites such as Facebook, so that technology can continue to be a tool for knowledge and intellectual advancement, rather than socialization. Many friends of mine use Facebook on a daily basis for several reasons: to chat with other friends, to see what other people’s lives look like, or to keep in contact with people that live far away. All five of the friends I asked said Facebook is a very useful website, but it is also addicting and a waste of time most of the time. Works Cited Bugeja, Michael. “Facing the Facebook.” The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections.
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).