Does The Internet Make You Dumber Analysis

The article “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” whose writer being Nicholas Carr,was published in The Wall Street Journal by Dow Jones and Company based in New York City, USA. Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is known to be an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Carr states in his article that “we’re turning into shallow thinkers.” He asserts that today, the internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information and due to its constant distractions and interruptions we are also turning into scattered and superficial thinkers. To a lesser extent, I agree with Carr. The internet gradually destroys our thinking ability and its time-consuming since it very hard to stay on track when surfing. On the other hand, I

The internet ‘spoon feeds’ us with any kind of information we would otherwise search for in different creative ways like exploring new places in case of research hence dwindling our reasoning capacity. For example, in class on 14th June 2016, a classmate said that when her child asks her a question from the homework, she consults the internet without even thinking about the questions. This is how the internet resembles a virus eating our brain. When we become addicted to the internet, our focus is lost because it’s very hard to stay on track. Switching on the internet automatically triggers our access to different interesting but ineffectual pages. First, you will open your email to read the hundreds of emails you received hours ago. Then you go ahead to your Facebook account, tweeter, Skype and many others. At the end, much of your useful and productive time is