Ups and Downs of Google

After going through the blogs of my fellow classmates a few had stood out to me; Nikki’s, Cris’s, and Dean’s blogs. It got me pondering about the benefits and set backs of Google in particular. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Carr, he proposed the question is Google causing us dim down our intelligence? He describes different people who have been experiencing the lost in ability to focus on a certain task when they are on surfing the World Wide Web. Even in the blogs post by Nikki and Cris they describe how language and writing is dumb down significantly to accommodate those to lazy to use it properly. It is true people in today’s society now use text messaging, instant messaging, and emails. They use short hand text like LMAO( laughing my ass off), OMG( Oh my God) , TTYL( talk to you later), etc… I absolutely agree with their blogs that we are all just getting lazier. I admit I use short hand when I am texting. I can not say for others but for me almost each month I send out and receive at least 4000 text messages, its just one of the main ways I communicate with my friends, because I can reach everyone on my list simultaneously while I can only talk to one person at a time through the cell phone. Short hand slang makes it very fast and simple. However this problem with the grammar is something that needs to be fixed. I notice that I for one write the way I talk with others, I am starting to notice less and less the errors in my spelling and the slang is slowly taken over my vocabulary.
Nevertheless, there are benefits to using Google in today world. Like in dean have mention in his blog, and I very much agree, Google have become more then just a place to search for one topic. Google has become a place where we can use it to learn about different multiple things. If we are confused about a definition or a medical conditioning that has occurred with a love one we can look it up. For example in class crystal had mention that there was as study done where people in a certain profession and those not in the profession where paired up to see if there was a different in those who spent years studying it and those who was just given a pamphlet. She said the out come of the study made no difference between the professional and the ordinary people they were equal. In another example, on December of last year my friend Rose had to go through a little tonsillectomy, the removing of ones tonsil. It a little surgery, nothing major, the chances of things going wrong is not that high. However, I still felt the need to read it so I could understand the procedure, the techniques they could use to remove it, the recovery, and the risk. By being able to read about it on Google it help me feel better, I was able to use the information to help her have a better recovery, this does not mean I am an expert on tonsillectomy now, it just means I have a little knowledge of it. Crystal had quoted; “A master of none”. This is what Google and the internet does we are able to expand our knowledge so we know a little of everything but not all , unless we feel strongly about a certain subject we can dig deeper it all depends on us. The information is there all we need to do is reach for it.
This is what I believe as the Ups and downs of Google. It lowers our thinking in a way where we get lazy in properly using language and writing, so people start using slang and short hand, they lack focus on task that could seem too long, they are in need of action of some sort. But Google benefits us in a sense the information is there, about everything and anything we can imagine. We can use this information to increase our own knowledge. We do not need to just stop at on the surface information, we have the ability to dig deeper and deeper. This all depends on us, so next time anyone us are looking at a certain topic keep going so we can scratch off the surface and understand the text at a deeper level.