As the internet becomes our primary source of information, many people believe that it is changing or rewriting the human brain and affecting the way we think. I say that they are right. We use the internet like its backup memory and do not bother to remember, we hardly give tasks and assignments our full attention and our concentration is suffering, and we are becoming more addicted to technology.
One reason we believe the internet is affecting our brain is that we use the internet like its backup memory and do not bother to remember. We do not have to remember mailing addresses or long phone numbers anymore. Now we can just save it in our phones or get on our email or Google to look it up. According to a study by done Science Magazine, "the Internet has become a
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In the Nicolas Carr article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he states that the Internet has been a useful tool for him to search for information and communicate, but he also feels that all the time you now spends online is affecting his ability to concentrate and feels that someone has been tinkering with his brain making it change (314). It's a benefit that comes with a price. Other people having similar problem staying focus after using the Internet. Scott Karp, an online blogger, has stopped reading books despite being a literature major in college. He thinks that the way he thinks has changed, not the way he reads (Carr 315). Bruce Friedman agrees his abilities to read long article has been affected by the Internet, and describes his thinking as having a "staccato" Quality because of scanning short passages text on the web (Carr 316). A developmental psychologist and author, Maryanne Wolf, notes "we are only what we read; we are how we read." She also believe the reading online causes us to become "mere decoders of information" and that ability to interpret text remains disengaged (Carr