Getting dumber by the clicks on Google
I would be greatly surprised if there is a person who never did and never does use ‘Google.’ These days, everyone types “google.com” 
in the URL bar( the bar on the top of the page when you open the internet, where you type the web address) whenever they are to research for school work or even small things in life such as cooking and random and personal questions. However, people find Google to be very useful and helpful, but Nicholas Carr, an American writer who published books about business, technology, and culture has written an article about that Google makes us people who depend on it so much, stupid.
The first thing that he says in his article about Google making us stupid is that since we started using Google, most of us are becoming lazier and worse at reading longer articles. He is saying that because Google gives us short, simple, and direct answers to our questions, we are so used to them, and we are pushing away those articles which give us more descriptions and exact explanations. This is causing us to become stupid because when we receive new knowledge about something that we never knew before on Google, we do get wider range of knowledge, but not shallow, instead of wider and also deep. Basically, instead of saying that Google is directly making us stupid, Nicholas Carr is saying that Google indirectly leads us to only have shallow knowledge, which leads to becoming stupid.
I do agree very strongly to how people are becoming lazy to read longer articles with more descriptions because I, myself, am just like that, too. But I do not agree that it is just Google that makes us stupid, because I think that we are more likely to be the ones who are making ourselves to become stupid. Google provides us with information that we need, therefore, it is useful and helpful. But, it depends on the way we use it, if we are to talk about Google making us stupid, because Google is just there to help with information; Google neither makes us nor only has short and direct answers for things we search for. There are also long articles on Google and everyone is free to read them just like short ones. It is just us the people who began to and who do look for short and easy answers, not Google.
Google is always there to help us, not to make us stupid. Google’s mission is to provide information, not making us just search for short and direct answers. I conclude that if we don’t want to become stupid by Google, we should know how to use it in a proper and good way, instead of using it in the way it can cause us to become stupid and just blaming on Google which was just there to give us information we need.
Bibliography
- http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/is-google-making-us-stupid/blog-234225/
- http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/2008/CUEBC-google.html
- http://www.edge.org/discourse/carr_google.html
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