Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Is there such thing as TO MUCH access?
After reading both articles on the impact of the internet and what is doing to our brains, I believe that if the users, mainly the youth were using it in the right ways there would be less of a negative impact on our brains and development. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Like both articles mention, the access that we now have to the internet every second of our everyday lives is making a huge impact on how much we are allowing our brains to work and grow. Although one may argue that you can read on your cell phone just as much as you can read from a book, studies have shown that this is not the right mentality. Studies at UCLA have shown that some brains are highly more simulated while surfing the web then when they are reading a book. The problem with this is that when you then go to read a book, your brain does not process the information the same as it would before you had become to attracted to the internet. In the article, "Is google making us stupid?" the writer expresses "My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading." He is fully aware that his brain is changing as his interest and interaction with the internet increases. Truthfully, I feel that there was a time were it was possible for there to be a world where the internet is used as a way to strictly increase our knowledge and brain strength, but now believe that where we are as a society is almost unfixable when it comes to letting the internet take over our brains.
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