Artifact #3

In What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, a few great points are made.  Multitasking is a huge factor with the internet.  When on the internet, I know very few people who do one thing at a time.  Currently, while doing this, I have the weather website tabbed, Facebook tabbed, gmail, my blogger dashboard, and a few shopping websites all up in my window.  Yes, this is a bit ridiculous, but I always find myself getting distracted thinking about something else I need to look up while i'm on the internet.  This is an example of how our world is today.  This does not just happen with the internet, but it happens while kids are doing homework, while face to face conversations are happening, while people are working, etc.  There are not many people you will come across in a day that will tell you they go their entire day with only doing one thing at a time.  I know for sure that I am the exact opposite of that; there is not many instances where that is the case with me.  Is this a bad thing? It can be, yes, because if someone is watching TV, doing their homework, and texting, chances are the homework is not getting done or is being done poorly.  Multitasking does not always have a negative, no, but it is not always the best because one thing is always being pushed to the "least important" factor and is performed poorly.  The internet has definitely changed the way things are done today but it is not all negative unless one makes it negative. This does not effect our brains differently as far as being bad; if anything it will allow us to think more and be able to challenge ourselves to thinking different things at once.  This is not all good but it can keep the brain thinking.  The way that our society has changed can have some positives and negatives, but the internet causing us to be multi taskers I do not see as a negative.