I couldn’t agree more with Nicholas Carr that the internet distracts and interrupts our brain rendering it shallow. The persistent usage of the internet hurts our productivity at work, makes it tougher to filter out vital information and leads to scattered thinking. Even though, the internet allows us to collect information swiftly, increase various avenues of expression like the blogs, helps to socialize through Facebook, Twitter, but it also chips away our concentration in the sense that the mind now expects to take information the way the Net distributes it. We don’t want to think anymore but expects the internet to work harder rather than exploiting our brain. In a nutshell, the internet has overshadowed our other intellectual technologies.
Teachers and professors think the Web is great to a certain point though. Teachers have noticed students are carried away by the Web because they are focusing less on reading. Carr agrees, “…. They don’t necessarily read a page from left to right and from top to bottom. They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318).
Have they all just become dangerously lazy? Is it something in the water? Are the schools to blame? It’s a good thing students are forced to do a minimum amount of community service hours in order to graduate otherwise many students wouldn’t gain a sense of civic responsibility or build lifelong habits of helping others. Teenagers of America are obsessed with social networking sites and online gaming.
For example Laurent B said that life online wasn’t always friendly, there were a lot of gossip. So using social networking and keeping in touch with friend online is the good thing, but they still have some trouble when the teenagers spend too much time. Response: According to Jan Farrington in “Online Friendship” research about the socials networking and connecting friends online. She explains more about the positive sides, but I think that they still have some negative sides. For example: In my country have a lot of place for rent computer to go online.
Most people find reading books easier so don’t some people like me because I prefer researching on the internet to searching for stuff in the library. Some people will support Carr by saying that the internet really makes us dumber but I’m on the opposite side because I defiantly think it makes as smarter especially with this technology that keeps improving as years come. All these things we have today and are able to access to will not be available without the internet because people or researchers wouldn’t have been able to get accurate information about what they were looking
Do we really even have the focus and dedication to sit and read a traditional book anymore? The Internet is a splendid addition to our society but we are allowing ourselves to depend on it fully and ultimately permit this technology to affect our mental health. Contrary to the many ways technology has benefited us, it can be harmful for our brains by hindering our concentration, promoting our inability to focus, and causing us to neglect deep thinking. Being distracted is not something new, although it is more frequent now causing us to live in a perpetual state of interruption thus weakening our ability to concentrate. We are just as busy in our offline lives as we are on the Internet.
The internet simplifies schooling and research, and computers keep our world functioning properly; it’s a good thing. New technology keeps making everyone lives that much easier; we communicate easier, we learn faster, we eat better and basically have a much bigger life span compared to our ancestors. On the flip side, it changed the population’s lives. We don’t have the same routines; we don’t even have the same values anymore. For example, technology has changed relationships.
This revolutionary way of communication can help build relationships and bonds between people. This fast speed of communication will also help one broadcast them self, and allows them to do it almost as soon as whatever they are broadcasting took place. This new way of communication can only make the world a better place, by linking people together and telling them what they need to know as quickly as possible. Building relationships on the internet is dangerous. Anyone can be behind the computer you are engaging with.
Advances in technology such as e-mail, cellular phones, and the Internet have made global communication more convenient. Companies create their own website to operate powerful information and sales channel with augmented geographical reach to inform and promote their businesses and products. By establishing a website, a company can endorse its products and services, and be able to give a little bit of its history and other information to those interested viewers. Technology has affected the learning environment tremendously, because training methods have evolved to a more advanced setting. I will not go far in siting an example.
There are no real answers in identifying which category of addiction to the Internet. This is for the reason that, the Internet has been used not only for the adult, but at all level of age these days. People are neglecting other important activities such as time with the family, socializing, work and health concerns. They stayed on-line more hours at a time and day after day. They also felt anxious and irritable when off-line and desire their next date with the Internet.