Google Response

There is not much to argue about what Carr is trying to say. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr is just giving a lot of information as to how Google or the internet is making us stupid with his own opinion.

To me, I don’t think the internet is making us stupid. It’s just making our everyday lives with the internet more intelligent by reading, or working on our online homework. I also think that he is trying to argue with the readers as to how the internet is making us stupid socially, which practically isn’t. There are tons of people out there who are using technology as there priority. Look at it this way, when you go to the library, you will see anonymous people with their laptops reading, looking up at a source online, etc instead of glancing through the book looking for some information that will take them hours to find what they are looking for. Before technology got more useful, people use to look up sources through books. Technology, however, made everything so quick to find what you’re looking for. But, it may take an hour or so to find the right source.

Google, by the way, is not making us stupid either. People go to this website to look for sources to read, or just to read for the people who love to socialize with their reading habits. There are all different kind of sources in this website. It is like a medication or a habit for most of the people who go online occasionally.

The type of genre Carr is writing about, I think is an academic writing because he is mostly lecturing about how Google is stupid in his own terms using other sources. Carr might have made a point to what he was trying to say about how the internet is wasting our time. In my point of view, I think that we are not wasting our time. We may have by going to Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and all the other non important websites, but that is just to catch up with our family, or friends. The most important about going on the internet is that we don’t have to look through the book. Isn’t that what you would think too?