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.
Dear Mr. Bratt: Some people consider sex, drugs, violence, and strong language as inappropriate. Others could care less about what they see on the Web. Others don’t even think twice about sex crimes in the newspaper or hearing someone cuss their mother out on TV. Some couldn’t be any more neutral about the inappropriateness of their information sources. Others so strongly that they censor this material so they can no longer view it.
Texting is ruining social skills, which are important to building personal relationships, because there is no body language to show any emotion. This is because excessive texting is ruining people’s ability to communicate effectively. Some people are afraid of real intimate conversations and hide their true feelings behind a cell phone or computer. Texting via cell phones or chatting via a computer does not show a person’s emotions since one cannot determine whether the other one is happy or sad. Through text messaging via cell phones and social networks, people can become more individualized, distant, afraid, and indifferent.
Response to Wendell Berry’s “Why I an Not Going to Buy a Computer.” Wendell Berry is a very good example of a writer who questions the status quo. In this case, the status quo is about consumerism and our dependence on technology. His apparently personal essay about why he refuses to own computer makes us think carefully about our relationship with this miracle machine. However, there are also some problems with his arguments. Let us have a look at his key points and the problems with them.
Rhetorical Reading: “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” (2012), Marche claims social media is a cause of many people becoming isolated from the world. He uses the story about Yvette Vickers to give us an example of how social networks can interfere with our lives. Marche’s purpose for this article is show how social media can make us lonely in order to get us to not use it as often as we do. His attended audience is anyone who is interested or uses social media. I can’t relate to this article because I do not believe Facebook can make anyone lonely.
You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” (Mahatma Gandhi). Gandhi explains it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it and that it if you at least do something about it there will be a result. In the essay Small Change: Why the Revolution will not be tweeted by Malcolm Gladwell, he argues that social networking with such tools as Facebook and Twitter don’t help or are not a part of social activism. This is not the case, social networking is a huge part of communication and organization, being able to participate in something without physically being there, and that social networking increases motivation and participation.
First, he mentions some advantages of net, such as convenience, interest, and conciseness. However, due to these advantages of network, Carr finds himself unable to concentrate on reading a whole passage, instead, he is used to seek the interest word and to skim the whole passage. A lot of examples are used to prove that Carr is not the only one who is experiencing this situation. Take one from the examples Carr mentions, Scott Karp, a man who used to work for magazine has stopped reading books since he is accustomed to only spot the fun part of the passage on internet, which is impossible to abstain in reading a long passage. There are also some people prefer this net reading to the traditional books.
When Siegler tells about going out to eat with his mom and having to check his phone under the table, it contradicts the whole point the rest of the article seems to make, Siegler admits that “cell phone usage is frowned upon in restaurants for a good reason, it can be annoying”. But as he boldly explains later in the article “What’s annoying to me isn’t someone
One can spend hours on the internet obtaining new knowledge. Many believed Huxley’s and Orwell’s visions were a like, but they did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell feared that people would ban books. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who
Especially, in instances where there are students with learning disabilities and because of their disability, technology serves more be a threat. Prensky arguments for the use of such technologies as cell phones, MySpace and twitter are valid arguments. Throughout Prensky many lectures and articles, he does not provide his audience with clear and concise ways to implement these tools for students with