Journal 9

I found this article very interesting and true. One point to be made is that Google does help us. For example when I'm writing an essay or paper for a class, it is so convenient to use Google to search for the topic we are looking for. Google displays pages upon pages of different websites that have articles or information that we are trying to find. In this sense, I do not see anything wrong with Google because I believe that it is helpful and useful. On the other hand, Google does make us rather lazy. We rarely go to the library to find books that have information we need. We use Google as a fast and efficient means of finding our information instead. It also affects our reading because as we skim over articles after articles we don't deeply concentrate or think about what we are reading. We miss important information because we are quickly skimming over websites and articles continuously brought about by using the search engine of Google. I found it interesting about the type-writer affecting a person's style of writing. I sort of agree on this. When I actually hand write out something, it does have a different style than if I am typing something. Though I wouldn't think of typed writing as mechanical, it does do something to the way I write. Since typing is quicker than writing something out by hand, people do not really concentrate as hard as they should about what they are writing (especially on emails, blogs, Facebook, etc.).