Google

1. Questions

·       Does the internet want to make the person read more or less?

·       How is a person’s concentration affected from the internet?

·       How have writing styles of author’s change due to the internet?

2. Response

            In the article “Is Google making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, he suggests that Google has made us not concentrate as much as we used to do and we want things more direct and shorter; and because of this author’s style of writing has changed a lot. Authors, before the internet, used a lot of big words and there style of writing was very descriptive and usually had some social message behind the story. For example, Frankenstein had a lot of social commentary about people trying to play God and that maybe we should not judge someone on the way they look and actually get to know the person. Pre-internet writers also were much wordier when writing using very difficult words to understand. Now fast forward to the internet era authors who are not as difficult reads like their predecessors. To keep the example in the same genre I will compare Frankenstein to the Twilight series which are both about monsters. Twilight from what I have red of it has no social commentary and is mainly just about a girl that fits in with her peers and falls in love with a good looking guy who just happens to be a vampire. The monster in Frankenstein is the exact opposite of Bella. This shows that writing seems to be watered down and is know more about what is trending in society, especially on social media and the internet. Unlike Mary Shelley’s book which has a lot of substance about her time with people not accepting others because they look different to the normal looking. Authors’ styles have changed for the better. Even though there might not be substance behind the stories today at least they are much more interesting to read and I have defiantly seen more teenagers reading books because either they want to fit in with everyone else because it is the cool and trending or it just catches their attention a lot more than some pre-internet book does.