Calling someone stupid is mean....but sometimes necessary.

I couldn't even get past page 2 of the article before I had something to blog about this week. I can't help but agree 100% with Carr already. Why? Because I put the piece down to blog about it before I finished page 2. My thought process is this: I have this assignment to do for class, so I started reading the piece for the blog. Before I even get to page 3 I feel compelled to put the piece down and write my blog because I experience the same thing EVERY DAY. What Carr describes in the first two pages of the piece has already happened to me (3). I am going to read the rest of the piece, but I can already tell you that he is correct because of what has just happened: I put down the reading, which isn't arduous or hard to read, and I turned my attention to the electronic medium by which we submit our assignments because writing a blog is now far more entertaining that reading is for me.

I don't think it is necessarily Google that is making us stupid. I think the ease of accessing the Web for information is making us inattentive and lazy. I am not A.D.D, but the overload of information that I receive on the Web is making me that way. My attention span in very short unless I've turned off everything in the house, including the modem, and sit down to work on homework. If I don't alienate myself from the tech in my home, I will get distracted and not finish my assignments and reading for school because entertainment is just a click away.

Our instructors are constantly having to repeat themselves in class as well. A lot of things for classes at UVU are "on the course website". We have to access our school work on the Web, and it's so hard to concentrate when your bookmarks are looking at you and with just one click you can be doing something far more interesting than writing your research paper...or reading about HTML & CSS for class. We want to actually do something with what we're reading, so we get a blog going and play with everything we have learned. Before we know it, it's midnight and we have done nothing for school.

The internet is a HUGE distraction from our daily lives. Marriages deteriorate because of social media addiction, communication is almost purely electronic because of smart phones and the internet and the world is SO impersonal because people don't care about what's going on in front of them. I think the internet has caused a huge gap between generations as well because parents no longer know how to communicate with their children face-to-face, so instead they Facebook stalk their kid and the relationship just gets worse. It is necessary to unplug at every opportunity you have, or you'll end up sucked in like the main character of Tron. We need to consciously think about what we're doing, because face-to-face communication is dying due to the Internet.