The Pros And Cons Of Google And Google

The internet: a place for individuals to search millions of topics and then add those topics to others’ understanding. Google, one of the most used internet websites, is where many Americans spend their time researching. The internet, and Google itself, are filled with an abundancy of information for humans to learn, research, and share their own thoughts and theories. One can say that Google is making Americans stupid, but how do we know that for sure? Carr’s theory states, “the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind” (Carr 315). Carr believes that Google is where he receives and takes in most of his information. Other Americans believe this, also. But,

Americans could spend hours sitting down reading a novel, taking in every detail and thoroughly understanding what they read. Now Americans get onto Google, type in a topic, skim over the topic and log off the computer. According to Carr, “immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” (Carr 314). Not only is this statement true to Nicholas Carr, but it is true for many Americans. Carr spends much of his time on the Web instead of in a book for the convenience of the time it takes to learn about a topic. I understand where Carr and most Americans are coming from. Google has everything I need to know. In just a matter of minutes you can read and learn about a topic that would otherwise take hours to learn from reading a book. Conveniently, you can find an abundant number of books on the Web. Instead of reading a book and having one’s mind wonder in different places, Americans can read that same book on the internet and stay more focused.

However, you do not see that happening much anymore. Sitting down and reading from a book has turned into sitting down and reading from an electronic device. Nicholas Carr admits, “for more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet” (Carr 314). Carr wishes he could focus and read more from a book rather than the Web. I personally do not find a problem with reading from the Web, rather than a book. On the internet you have the option of seeking opinions while adding your own opinions to the list. Along with reading from the Web, you have the option to read summaries along with the book; to reach a better understanding of the reading. Most Americans view the Internet as information that is put into words, only. But along with the information, put in words, comes the information from