5 WAYS THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE THINK

           As technology advancement everyday so does I use for it. We found ourselves that we are becomming more and more dependent on things we use everyday whether be cell phones, the way we travel or perhaps more importantly the internet. 
In 2008 Nicholas Carr wrote an article that brought a terrifying felling for the country. He stated that our brain had been acting differently due to the amount of times we spent on the internet. He even said that the way we think and process information have been restructured in a way that’s totally different that people who live 10 years ago and due to the popularity of this article he decide to write a book called the shallows which explain the dangers that our brains are facing every day the more we used technology and don’t get me wrong , he’s not stating the the internet is an evil monster that’s corrupting our minds instead he clarifies although the internet made life easier than what is was before us as a species has also had to make a few sacrifices because of the way we use the internet today now here are the five ways  the internet has change us.

1.     Our  focus has dramatically decreased due to the quickness of online searches.

         All it takes the quick Google search whatever question we have in mind and because the quickness of the internet it has cause our minds to have an unrealistic expectation towards other related channels our way of thinking points more towards what is convenience rather than what’s necessary we began losing patience for the simple things in life that require waiting such as working at the company getting a promotion and dating.

     2.   Even before the internet arrived our minds was already changing the way                       functioned.

                    Because of simple inventions such  as televisions or the computer there's even cases where writer cant work at a computer because it gave them severe headache and are nausea filling and that’s normally because our brain doesn't see your keyboards as an keyboard rather it sees it as an extension of your hand and when you begin using a keyboard your brain sort of freaks out until it learns to adapt with another.


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      3.    We often assume our decisions are our own.

                But its often a tools we use everyday that direct our thoughts and behaviors take a clock for example we use them everyday to determined what time to getup when they catch our transportation system or when our favorite television show comes on and although its hard imagining life without a clock Societies have been have been able to live years without them for thousands of their years. Their brains already knew how the function automatically bought the help of outside tools for support which brings up a question what are automatic senses has the internet has removed from our brains today. Socrates already said that depending your own ability to write and record our thoughts are written paper can actually cripple your ability to memorize but as we already know without writing there will be a chance that our society would forget a majority of events that happened in the past and like Socrates warnings depending on the flexibility of the internet has reduced people willingness to go to the library or go to other public resources to find the answers they’re looking for.

        4.     All the we assume we our full attention in internet we’re really just jumping                   from one distraction to the next.

               When one of a webpage we dozens of possible click-bait materials that are captures our attention. So when we’re using the internet daily is actually overwhelming the mid because our minds are trying to compose whatever is front of us that very seconds take reading an article online. For example all you have is the context of those pages. An online article can have ads running on the side pop-Ups which can distract you and possible click bait thumbnails and with so much information being pushed on you it can cause your mind to lose the main point of what you are reading in the first place.

      5.   Since 1960s people had been attempting to make computer program in interacting people.

2008 Nicholas Carr

                 We find ourselves giving programs like Siri. Human characteristic everyday because as humans were socials beings and today we’re spending more time on the computer than with real people. And that’s the lines pushing humans and computer interaction become narrow. We find ourselves becoming machine like. So you could have a central point of relation with the object were spend our time more. We’re learning to depend on the machines to do a majority of out thinking and remembering things for us such as why I remember these important dates in history when you can just google them in a matter  in seconds. Why I got to find a date when we could simply find someone to date online.

          Now although the facts from this book can seems scary. Yes its true that the natural effects on the internet is unavoidable because we use it for daily activities. After all the benefits probably do outweighs the cost. The author only raises these questions as a general concern that maybe instead of constantly depending on internet for simple information. We should go out into the world and find it for ourselves that we should learn to use our natural tools of communication with people in person rather than online and learn how to read books rather than online articles that can distract us from possible click-bait material or pop-up adds.

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