The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long insisted that very young children should be kept away from …show more content…
As a teenager myself, I find it extremely helpful to have access to a smartphone in college so I have the ability to contact people from all over the world. Without the development of cell phones, I would certainly not be able to remain as close with my friends from home as I have been able to. Snapchat, Instagram, iMessage, and many other social media apps help me keep up with the lives of those I care about who are not right here on campus with me. I have also been lucky enough to keep in contact with my former au pair despite the fact that she lives in an entirely different country. I have not seen her in two years, but thanks to iMessage and other social media, I keep in practically daily contact with …show more content…
While I do not disagree that the internet may have made it more difficult to pay attention to the multitude of paragraphs, I find his conclusion that the internet has completely rewired our brains a bit out there. Carr admits “...we still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how Internet use affects cognition”, thus I find it impossible to take Carr’s insistence that the Internet causing people to take up “power browsing” more often to be a sign of anything bigger (Carr). Carr’s skepticism about the at the thought of the internet supplementing our intelligence seems unjustified, as people have been supplementing their knowledge with that of other humans, books, and many other sources of information outside of the internet for generations. The fear that Carr expresses of becoming technology reliant is rather obsolete, as the world is simply shifting from print books to the same information in PDFs online. If Carr sees no issue with reading books to gain intelligence or information, there is no reason for him to fear technology when it is improving ways to do this and many other aspects of