Negative Impact of The Internet on People

Before Internet people wrote their experiences, discoveries, and thoughts in words on paper. Books were written, and were used to teach a person how to do Math, to write their language, about the history of their country, and other subjects. This made people have to read the books to gain knowledge about certain topics. When the Internet was invented it had only certain knowledge about variety of topics. Today, Internet has made a huge progress in the information it contains. Searching for information has become easier, and quicker to do. Not only is it easier it has many more topics and information about anything one could think of. It has become so easy to find information, that books have simply become irrelevant to many.The way Internet is used has made it hard for one to keep focus, made it harder to read, and is lowering our ability to attain knowledge.

When people read books, back before internet was a big hit, they would read long passages and read many of the pages in books to find information. We read these pages with out interrupting out reading habits, and keep our mind focused on the reading itself. As we read the full text of a book we had a mind full of information. We remembered the information better because we read it with out interruption and knew exactly what was going on. As internet became more popular it became more updated with information. One can look up anything in mind and be able to find multiple sites for a specific topic. When they search for a certain item the search engine browses through the web and picks out different sources that highlight the key word making it easier to skim through and find a site that has information that they are looking for. With us skimming through pages of keywords, and relations of topics to keywords, we loss focus in actually understanding the text and learning anything from what we look at.

Now that people rely so much on internet to look up the information they need. It is harder for anyone to keep on track and read long passages without getting bored of the reading and stopping. Instead of having the mentality to read and stay focused, internet has caused us to skip through and pick out key words in writings making it harder to read the text. "They found that peoples using the sites exhibited "a form of skimming activity," hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they'd already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before hey would "bounce," out to another site. Sometimes they'd save a long article, but there's no evidence that they ever went back and actually read it."(Carr 961). The way we skim through the pages of sites affects the way we read and the way the mind functions while trying to comprehend the written text. Our reading habits today have greatly affected the way our brain functions, making it more difficult to actually be able to engage in the reading and understand the text completely.

Google, Wikipedia, and many other sites use references from many different types of sources. Some of these sites are written from people who don't have the qualifications to fully write a factual piece. They write from their own point of view and from their own opinions. Only certain web sites have real information that can is documented. From reading all these sites on search engines such as google may bring up information that is false, but we may not know that. The way we read through the internet had decreased reading rates, and made it more difficult for those to learn from the bits and pieces they pick up from skimming through multiple sites. Which may cause someone to miss an important fact, or important note that could have made them more knowledgeable. The way we type words into search browsers has also affected our learning ability. We use short terms to abbreviate different things, such as u, for you, ur, for your, and many others. It has affected our grammar and speech. Causing us to not be as educated as we should be. Internet has changes many ways of how we were taught and how we learn.

Google, Wikipedia, and other search engines have impacted the way we focus, the way we read, and the ability to learn in many ways. They are affected by the way our mind reads and understands information. How we learn has changed drastically through out the year through the enhancement of technology. As we dull ourselves down from learning things in full text and understanding what a person is saying through their writing, we loss what we could have been taught. We have became more dumb than we ever have been and have lost the decency in the way we speak. As much as technology is enhancing people rarely ever talk, other than through email, text messaging, and sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. We need to start reading more and working our brains so it can function correctly and be more knowledgable.