Affects of Google blog 5

Is Google making us student? This was a very interesting topic that I agree with and disagree with. I do agree that it the internet does make it hard to concentrate sometimes. I am not sold on the fact that he internet is chipping away at the capacity to concentrate. When on the internet it is easy to be distracted and not concentrate on one thing because there is so much to do on the web. We are able to search anything we want and get results in a matter of seconds. When people have so much at their disposal at once being distracted will happen easily. When I am on the internet I do not concentrate on one thing I always have multiple tabs open and constantly go back and forth between them.

I think that Google and the internet would expand a persons’ memory. Since people can look up anything they want at any time of the day they should be able to remember more. Especially since when people are on Google they are searching something that they are interested in. When people are searching topics they are interested in they remember that over something they dislike. The memory should expand when constantly searching interesting topics because that person is feeling their brain with things they like. I do not think the internet is the reason people cannot concentrate on long pieces of writing. I would believe this is everything that was on the internet was short abstracts and summaries of things, but there are text that are long on the internet so concentrating on writing should not be that difficult. I feel that texting and emails have a bigger impact on not being able to concentrate on long writing and making people stupid. Nowadays people are texting more and talking less so they are not using proper grammar when communicating. People are using abbreviations for words and mixing letters and numbers together to create words. Things like this carry over to school and have negative effects on student’s grades. I have assignments given in school where teachers and professors have to write “no text talk” as a part of the instructions. An article that I read stated that “Overall there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores based on the number of adaptations in sent text messages.”(Ho/Cingel). There has already been a decline in test scores and there does not seem like people will start texting less anytime soon, so scores will continue to decline. People do not care how they are spelling and wording things when texting they just want to make it as simple as possible so people will eventually start doing this with assignments in school, and is it possible that someday this could be accepted in schools?

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