http://www.goamerican.com/is-the-internet-making-us-stupid/ Helping you benefit from today's technology. Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:37:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.goamerican.com/is-the-internet-making-us-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Linda Lynch Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:53:31 +0000 http://www.goamerican.com/?p=934#comment-86 Can I agree with both sides of this? There are times when the 140 character word bytes are very distracting and I find it difficult to focus. Other times, the message is well crafted and the 'headline' leads me to read more in depth articles. I am exposed to many, many more topics, and sometimes that is overwhelming. But it also leads me to books that I might not otherwise have known about. In my mind, the danger is for those who rely ONLY on Google or Twitter for their learning, rather than as a tool to figure out what you want to learn more about. Can I agree with both sides of this? There are times when the 140 character word bytes are very distracting and I find it difficult to focus. Other times, the message is well crafted and the ‘headline’ leads me to read more in depth articles. I am exposed to many, many more topics, and sometimes that is overwhelming. But it also leads me to books that I might not otherwise have known about. In my mind, the danger is for those who rely ONLY on Google or Twitter for their learning, rather than as a tool to figure out what you want to learn more about.

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