"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" response

I found with this article that I connected to it a lot. I absolutely find myself more interested in the fast version of information skimming that is presented on the Internet as the efficient way of obtaining knowledge. While reading the article, even though I felt super connected to what the author was saying, I still found myself zoning out while reading and having to go back a few sentences and attempt to concentrate all over again. I think that while the Internet is super useful for research and a great database for everything, importance still has to be placed on traditional forms of media for informational purposes. I feel like I obtain a lot more and think critically when I read traditional media. There is a large distinction between when I read the newspaper with the paper actually in my hands and when I browse it on my phone. I tend to read fully and think deeply about articles in the paper, but those same articles on my phone will only get briefly skimmed to determine the overall point and then I continue on to the next section. I think that this article was fascinating to make the connection between my own concentration issues and lack of motivation to read full length articles or any type of formal information media and the way that my generation especially views everything digitally. While staying connected is great and can provide many benefits, I feel that I even find myself struggling to concentrate as my phone rings in emails, my phone buzzes in texts, and I skim through thousands of pages of information in brief seconds on my laptop. The connection is there, but it is a different level of connection, just surface skimming. There is a whole different level of connection when you delve deeper into an article and have only that article in front of you and no distractions, the brain can focus and actually think critically about the information being presented rather than purely absorbing it.

Article link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/