I can very well say that Google is not necessarily making me stupid, but more so lazy. I wouldn't say much in the terms of using it for school. Well okay, I lied. I do use it for school when it comes to finding sources (not Wikipedia) or articles for papers that I need to do. Sometimes I even use Google Translate to make sure the sentences for my Italian homework is somewhat correct, but shhh.. don't let that get outside the classroom! I feel Google makes me more lazy when I am sick and don't feel like oh.. going to the doctor. I am guilty of looking up symptoms on Google and then making myself nervous by some weird list of twenty some odd others illnesses come up that have maybe one of the same symptoms then I am having. Hey, it's better than paying that $50 co-pay at Patients First, right?
I think as a generation coming into a ever changing technology field, it's hard for us to escape using the internet for anything we do. I'm sure most of us do have the will power to go to the library and get back to more "primal" roots of finding sources, but even in the library now we have that temptation to use the internet with computers in there.
Overall, it's just making us lazy because we can just skim the info that we want rather than taking the time to find good sources. I'm sure Google has some smart links to sites, but we just need to stop being lazy and make better choices to find these "smart" links and use them for whatever purposes we look them up for. Plus also not believing every we read because we want to save time and use short cuts to get out to..oh going to the bar maybe or hanging with friends. :)
-Krissy Z.
I completely agree. Google is making us lazy. We use it as a total cop-out for everything that we need to do. If we need to go see a movie and don't want to pay for it, Google helps us locate websites that allow us to watch the movie online. If we want to find out the hours and location of a restaurant, we rather spend 20min looking through Google, then actually pick up the phone and call the restaurant.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we are a generation that lives on technology, but how much is too much? We obviously can't rely everything we know on Google.
-Laura Chami