Is the internet making us stuupid?..

[Urban]

I read most of this article and thought it was really interesting.. I noticed that some of the points apply to me too, cuz sometimes when I read the long(ish) messages posted here, I find myself losing focus after the first few lines and can't remember the point of the message a few minutes later. And I know that wasn't always the case.

 

Anyways, this is a small summary of the article (which is pretty long) I pasted from Neatorama.

 

~Nicholas Carr started noticing the change in the way he thinks a few years ago, starting with his decreased ability to focus while reading books.

 

When he mentioned his problem to his friends - most of them literary types - many said they’re having the same problem … the InterWeb is making them ******!

 

The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing. Some of the bloggers I follow have also begun mentioning the phenomenon. Scott Karp, who writes a blog about online media, recently confessed that he has stopped reading books altogether. “I was a lit major in college, and used to be [a] voracious book reader,” he wrote. “What happened?” He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”

 

Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,” he wrote earlier this year. A pathologist who has long been on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School, Friedman elaborated on his comment in a telephone conversation with me. His thinking, he said, has taken on a “staccato” quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages of text from many sources online. “I can’t read War and Peace anymore,” he admitted. “I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.”

 

What the internet is doing to our brains

 

“We are not only what we read, We are how we read."

[FatB]

I skim it

like i did with this piece

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Nicholas Carr started noticing the change in the way he thinks a few years ago, starting with his decreased ability to focus while reading books.

I don't know about the internet and whether its result of my using is the cause for this, but myself I had noticed that as well. I cannot read the books the way I used to, long-winded articles as well.

[AYOUB]

The culprit is TV not the internet. Even kids who hardly go online are affected by channel-hopping. Never mind reading, they can't even sit down for 5 minutes without being "bored".

[Jacaylbaro]

Same problem ,,,,

 

Now i'll copy this topic and send to all my friends. They're all suffering from the same disease.

[Fabregas]

it could be sum ppl are istubidz alreedhi

[Jacaylbaro]

Like you and me ,,,

[Fabregas]

aniga maxad iga rabta..........I don't equate water to women, unlike some beebal