Journal Nine

In the article, Is Google Making Us Stupid, Carr suggests that Google is changing the way we read and the way we absorb information that we see. I agree with him; I think that reading via the internet is dangerous to our way of thinking and interpreting the information we read. I think that the internet can be used positively as a medium to transfer information to multiple groups of people. But I think that there are so many distractions and a feeling of "don't read this" with all of the ads surrounding an article or passage from a book, etc. that reading is impossible to do over the internet. Carr says that skimming and reading quickly are the most common ways of reading on the internet and that is changing the way we think. I think he's right and I feel that the internet is changing the way we think things through, and not in a good way.