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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

What is the Internet doing to our brains?

I believe that the Internet is changing the way our brains work. Our reality has greatly changed since the internet became such a huge part of our everyday lives. Before the internet we had to actually investigate things in books if we had questions regarding an unknown subject. It has become a normal and everyday practice to look things up on google so our brains are receiving a lot more information and at a much faster pace. I think this constant instant gratification is accustoming our brains to not only receive quick and easy access information, but because of this fast pace information retrieval we are not storing the information received in our long term memory. We are receiving so much information constantly but it does not stay with us, because we know that if we were to need that information again it is easily and readily available. I feel that our attention spans are also very short because we have become so used to receiving so much stimulus all of the time through our phones, that we must be entertained and connected at all times.

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