commentary#1 on Erik Arndt

  I really like the topic of addiction towards the internet, especially social media sites such as facebook. I also noticed that you backed up some facts using some sources, that made your essay more reliable in a sense to your arguments. I also like how you made the topic to your essay aimed towards people at a personal level, since you stated with facts that almost 50% of internet users use facebook. Due to those facts, i believe that your argument as I've said before, will interest the reader at a more personal level. Your essay is also at most arguable, since many people do not behave in the way that you have described them to be through your statistics and points, but nonetheless, is acceptable from your research. One of the things that i have noticed on your essay is that you could back some of your paragraphs up with more facts or related things to the topics that are being brought to attention. overall, your essay was an enjoyable read, and it does affect the reader at a more personal level frrom your facts.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

1.Why would the internet be making us stupid?
2.How can we turn the disadvantages of the internet to an advantage?
3. Even though the internet is having a negative effect on our attention span towards reading, can we make that a good thing?

    Upon reading Nicholas Carr's article, " Is Google Making Us Stupid?," I have noticed that the author tries to convey to the reader that the internet, is a matter in fact, turning our attention spans to mush. According to to Carr, he claims that due to the massive amounts of information being posted on the internet, our brains have learned to just skim through readings, and try to process the information that only seems important to us. This claim seems to be true, I mean, just look at your average magazine. Fashion magazines, to your gossip magazines, or even your informative magazines, the journalists and editors who created them seem to buff up the magazine by adding small little side notes and pictures which can be easily read by anyone. Little side notes and interesting pictures or facts that grab your attention, sometimes even with some of your favorite colors framing them. Nevertheless, we tend to look more at those side notes and pictures than we do pay more attention at the main articles the magazines were meant to convey for the week. Maybe it is the internet and all of its magical wonders that make us not want to pick up a novel anymore. Maybe it's just our fast paced lifestyle that doesn't give us time to read all the grey stuff, and just straight into the action. In the end, however, the internet and Google cannot be completely at fault for all of this. Technology has let us access information better than ever before, in a good way to put it at that. No more searching long hours at the library for some information. Now, with a click of some buttons, we can access that information with ease. The internet is in fact a big part of our lives now, and unless we live in some third world fascist country, we can access it almost everyday. Whether it be accessing public information online, or just checking our some of your favorite sites, the internet, does however play a large role in turning our attention span into "mush".