"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

The article "Is Google Making Us Stupid," by Nicholas Carr is about one person's story telling how using Google has affected his ability to think (Atlantic Magazine, July/August 2008). The person says that he has lost his ability to concentrate when he is required to read a lot. He spends a lot of time on the internet researching or simply surfing the web. Most of the information in his mind has come from the internet. He asked all his friends if they were experiencing the same difficulties has he is and finds that they are struggling just as bad when it can to trying to concentrate on reading. He has noticed on some of the blogs he follows that they too are not being able to read books quite as well as the used to. The way that people read on the internet now a days is just simply skimming it and not actually reading it. They have noticed that they are now reading that way when they are reading off the internet.

I do believe that people are losing their interest in reading and finding it easier to skim then actually reading every word. Most college students are spending more time on the internet researching than actually reading their textbooks or going to the library to research books. I don't feel that people are losing their concentration or reading abilities by using Google or the internet. The reason why is because people have to concentrate and use their reading skills in order to fully understand what their researching material is about.