The internet has been our best friend now a day. Nicholas Carr, a Pulitzer nominee writer, wants to inform people who care about intellectual issues, about what the internet is doing to our brains. He felt changes in his own brain, his friends have noticed it mention in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Writer, Joe Keohane, informs to American voter around midterm elections in his article “How Facts Backfire” that we don’t really take in the actual information and it mislead us to the wrong facts. Both describe the benefits of using the internet but also how it affects our brains. However, Keohane explains how our beliefs make people's facts backfire and Carr explains how the internet is making us slower.
Carr's article explains how
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Self-esteem is one of the adapting things the brain works on. Keohane's article says, “If you feel good about yourself, you’ll listen - and if you feel insecure or threatened, you won’t". If you believe in yourself things will be clearer to you and think through what people tell you, but when you have no self-esteem, everything people tell you, your brain will believe it automatically. And on the beginning of Carr’s article, it states that he isn’t thinking the way he used to and it’s become a struggle to read. Spending a lot of time online makes readers question the things they thought they knew. Carr is feeling a little bit uncertain about himself. That’s when people start to skim through things and get facts wrong. Skimming though things will only get you some of the information and not the whole truth you are looking for. Keohane and Carr both have a similar approach to what we adapt to our brains. Having no self-esteem shown in Keohane's article and Carr not feeling good about himself have a toll on how their brain works towards what they …show more content…
But they both show us their different views on how it slows people down and how our beliefs are the reason why facts backfire on them. So, is this relevant? Does the internet make us slow and out beliefs wrong about things? It's true, people are sometimes ignorant of the real facts and our opinions take over our brain. People get lazy to read an article, that they end up searching their questions until they find the easiest answer they can get. It impacts people who are in politics, people with degrees, it can happen to anyone. People need to start paying attention and taking time to look for the right answers. Maybe start actually reading a book or paying attention to what the politicians are really saying and taking a step back to analyze everything being said before going ahead and taking a