Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Journal Nine
I feel very indecisive when it comes to this topic. In many ways I think the internet is very helpful to people. I think it even makes us smart or at least more "in-touch" and aware. Being able to access definitions, news articles, facts, statistics, images and all other forms of information is useful to everyone and can help strengthen any argument or idea. However, I also believe that the internet is changing the human species. Although I don't see at as a completely negative thing as many other people have said, I do see it as a tool that is shortening our attention span and frankly making us more lazy. Being able to access so much information so easily is good in the sense that it's accessible and information but bad in the way that it isn't valued the way it should be. Overall, I'm glad we use the internet the way we do but I can't deny that I'm a little bit nervous for the future.
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I do believe this article had made a very valid point. I do find my mind wandering on lengthy articles but it my mind has always been that way. I grow up with the internet making me believe i would struggle to read long articles even with out the internet. I believe people just adapt to the norm in reading lengths and the internet has cut that down so much that our attention sand had dropped with it. I do not believe the internet is bad at all though. It encourages writing and reading just in small doses.
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