know how many times I have heard the line “I never had Facebook or Twitter when I was your age” at family dinners. As a technology that has been rooted into our culture, we need to ask ourselves: how is this technology effecting us? In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr tackled this very question. Carr has a very different answer than I do. Nicholas Carr will attempt to teach you to be skeptical of the internet’s potentially negative effects on your mind. Carr has taken the easier
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indirectly bring out the best in yourself. During group discussions many people never speak up because they’re afraid that people will judge them for saying something stupid. This fear isn’t really justified. Generally, people are much more accepting than we imagine. In fact most people are dealing with the exact same fears. By making an effort to speak up at least once in every group discussion, you’ll become a better public speaker, more confident in your own thoughts, and recognized as a leader
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smartness, as some people nowadays rely too much on technology. Technology helps us in communication. For example, You have a friend who just moved somewhere else and if you want to contact him you can just call him or even face time him but then instead of talking with him on face time, you start looking at his images on Facebook or other social media platforms, that’s where it creates more distance between the two of us. Unfortunately, of what we use our screen time for is not creating intimate connections
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you spend on the Internet. Proven studies have shown that using the Internet too much causes problems concentrating. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr talks about how the younger and middle-aged generation is losing the ability to concentrate due to the Internet. Carr begins by talking about how the Internet is making it harder to concentrate. He claims that the more and more time we spend on the web the more it becomes difficult to concentrate on reading lengthy articles
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In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He address the social topic of the effect of technology on our brain, more specifically certain processes that occur within our brain such as thought process, attention span, mental capacity, and so on. Throughout this article, Carr attempts to use many different rhetorical strategies to bolster the argument of his essay and its purpose. These rhetorical strategies include tone, Carr’s specific use of diction, and the overall organization of
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Running Head: SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 1 SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION SHAWN MYERS SSC 101 HUMAN BEHAVIOR PERSPECTIVE SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 2 Abstract Social media technologies are important tools in our lives. They make it possible to maintain social relationships with existing friends and family, while at the same time building new relationships. The social lives of different
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and economics which have made his books New York Times Bestsellers in addition to being a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee. Aside from The Shallows, Carr has written two other influential books called The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google and Does IT Matter? With the three books, Carr has sparked many debates and awareness. Carr has been a columnist in many news articles such as The Times of London, The New
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Why Google Employees Quit In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names. The thread shows a brutal honesty about what it’s like to work at Google, at least from the point of view of employees who were unhappy enough to resign. Top amongst the complaints is low pay relative
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server and storage software, and digital music players (Zune). The company has used acquisitions to bulk up its presence in markets such as online advertising, mobile devices, and enterprise software. The company makes more than half of its sales in the US. Management style From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he
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do, and we do not think about the copyright or if the thing we are sharing, has an originator. However, the sharing does not only consist of photos it is also movies, programs and other large and expensive things. 1. The text 1 “It’s evolution, Stupid” by Peter Sunde is a text speaking for illegal downloading of movies, music etc. on the internet. Peter Sunde is a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of “The Pirate Bay”, which is a BitTorrent search engine. Peter Sunde believes it is evolution, he says:
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