"What is the Internet Doing to our Brains"

       Even though the internet could be beneficial and is not a distraction for some people, I believe that the Internet is changing our brains. Just as Nicholas Carr has researched, the internet is causing us to become superficial, or shallow thinkers. As we engage in certain tasks, we continue to allow distractions such as a twitter video, or a text message distract us from the task at hand and at times not completing it on time or not at all. The internet creates an information rich environment and encourages compulsive behavior to where we have to constantly check our phones and the internet to seek new information, ideas, people, etc. As we continue to get distracted by the internet, information store in our short memory domain never reaches our long term memory and we lose it. 
      Personally, I do think the internet is changing our brains. Our reliance on the internet only continues to make us robotic seeking new information but never learning it or storing it for later use. I continue to see people around me on their phones at a date, with friends or in the classroom, including myself. As technology advances, our fascination with it increases, new apps are being made, more news is going on in the social media world, and phones are continuing to advance. In conclusion, the internet is changing our brains but if we find time out of our days to focus at tasks at hand without distractions, the internet will be an asset and not a distraction.