“Are you kidding me? I can’t spend a minute without my phone!” This is the sort of reaction that is pulled out of almost every teenager if you try to take their smartphones away. They sleep with it, eat with it, wake up with it nested underneath them somewhere on the bed, and even go to the bathroom with it. It seems like these smartphones have become such an integrated part in the lives of today’s young generation that it has become an infestation. When you ask them something their fingers go tap tap on their mobile devices to ‘google’ the answer. Even to check what time it is, they rely on their devices to know the date and time. It is certainly alarming to see the amount of human dependence on these gadgets because their absence would certainly render these …show more content…
Thousands of cooking recipes, tutorials, are available; in fact, the list could go on and on and never end. These vast amounts of advantages definitely have the power to overshadow the adverse side of this ingenious invention. Just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I believe that for something to be beneficial or detrimental, it depends on the user. Carr’s thesis about Google making us stupid is not completely true. He has a valid point that now people do spend less time deep reading and only go over to look for relevant things, but I don’t understand why that’s a bad thing. Today the world is very fast paced with everything on fingertips and the amount of information available on the internet doesn’t give one the excuse to not go over everything they could get their hands on to do an affective research. If one stopped to ‘deep read’ each and every single article they came across on the web which related to their research, they would never get around to writing anything. The easy accessibility of information on internet and advanced search engines like Google leave little room for deep thinking