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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
As Carr explains in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” media shapes the process by which people think. When one is reading a book, one has to think to stay engaged. If the mind wanders, no reading gets done. However, with media like TV or movies, the viewer is passive and can sit and the movie or film will just keep going. The viewer can pop in and out and still get a lot of information from it. With the Internet, there is a constant feed of information and zillions of options that keep one clicking and clicking on to the next page, the next video, the next link. The effect of this addiction to the Internet, however, is that it makes it more difficult for the mind to focus on more mundane work—like reading a book. A book contains no hyperlinks, no amusing advertisements, and no videos will be hard pressed to keep a reader’s attention for long now that the reader is well-versed in the attractions of the digital age and the Information Highway. Carr states that he used to enjoy reading books for a long period of time, but now he finds it harder to concentrate. Google has made him stupid, he says.
At the same time, he owes a lot to the Internet. He doesn’t have to work as hard to find information for writing: no more long hours in the library, no more grinding it out. Now he can just hop online and get what he needs for an article in a few minutes. The problem only comes when it is time to get back to reading an actual book. Carr says that he is not the only one: his friends—literary types—they feel the same way. After so much time online, they find it very difficult to pick up a book and disconnect from the Web. The Internet can definitely be addicting: it does something to the brain and makes it so that people have to keep coming back for more: one more click, one more video, one more article, one more headline. It never ends—and that is why the brain is wired in a different way now.
Internet Addiction It is thought that nearly five million people today are addicted to the Internet. With that many people experiencing addiction symptoms, it is important for the mental health community to develop methods of treatment. In an article in the March-April 1998 issue of Psychology Today, author Carol Potera explores the questions and realities of online use and addictions. Although use of the Internet became common in the early 1990s, it
Paradoxical as it might seem the Internet, which is being touted as a broad socializing medium is silently causing social isolation among some of the users. In some countries like Korea and China, increasing number of adolescents are addicted to online gaming portals seriously damaging their personal and social lives. Internet addiction related deaths in these countries has forced the governments to take a new regulatory approach to managing
How often do you lose sleep due to late-night log-ins? 15. How often do you feel preoccupied with the Internet when off-line, or fantasize about being online? 16. How often do you find yourself saying "just a few more minutes" when on- line? 17. How often do you try to cut down the amount of time you spend online and fail? 18. How often do you try to hide how long you've been online? 19.
At the same time, irrespective of age, race, and gender, a group of people become overly aggressive and obsessive in making frequent use of the Internet, who tend to relegate other activities in order to browse the Internet. Traditionally, television consumed a much bigger portion of people's time than newspapers; however, with the use of the Internet, there has been a massive change. Not only television use has become down,
Internet started way back 3 to 4 decades, but it really took the world by storm through the 90's and till now it has become one of the main assets of modern day computer user. More people get the information through Internet, especially those who use it than by any other means. The world has become a cyber village where simply anyone from anywhere can communicate with other person living
4. Solutions From the above discussion we can deduce that Internet addiction is not just another popular from of 'hype' but is a serious condition that is need of solutions. As awareness of the disorder becomes more prevalent so do the number of proposed solution and techniques to combat this problem. One possible solution suggested by medical practitioners begins with the realization of the addiction; in other words, the first step is