Is Google Making Us Stoopid?

Citation: Car, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stoopid."Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader. Ed.Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger. Boston: Longman, 2011. 558-566. Print.

Summary: In this piece Car talks about the dangers of the internet. He speaks about how the internet has changed and influenced the way we educate ourselves and how we read. The power of the world wide web is in a constant increase with the way it manipulates us with it's advertisement and corrupted media. Google has only contributed to this. Making internet users become lazy and skim from click to click.

Quote: The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data processing machines is not only build into the workings of the internet, it's the network's reigning business model as well (564).

Response: The internet has created a whole virtual world where everything is accessible at your finger tips. With everything just a click away, it is easy to just skim from page to page. Many students who have to take on a reading assignment in a class will automatically go onto the web and search for the easy way out. Having such websites as spark notes has allowed young students to become lazy in their studies. Students begin to spell words in correctly knowing google will correct them. Google has allowed us to access and search for anything you need with just a click of a button.

Web browsing has also exposed internet users to many advertisements making it easier and faster to buy products. Also, many advertisers making money with every time you click on their add. Along with the exposition to advertisements many young internet users are exposed to violence and sex. Many kids are glued to their computer wanting to play video games and parents have to pull them away for dinner.

The internet is definitely consuming many peoples lives. I wonder what would happen if for just one day the world didn't have internet. Maybe families would actually have family time or kids would go outside and play. Although the internet has many positives, the world depends on it far too much.