Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google making us stupid”

I get distracted very easily whenever I use the internet. I find that Wikipedia creates the largest distractions. After five minutes of using it I always have several different tabs open with completely unrelated articles. Sometimes I don’t even finish reading the first few sentences of an article because I already clicked to go onto another page.Overall, people want the quick and simple answers to a question and the internet helps us do that. Because of this, it’s very understandable why people are finding it harder to focus when reading a long piece. It’s easier to search for something on Google and jump to the next link then to sit and absorb something. This very damaging since we’re no longer analyzing material in a deeper context.