Reading Response #1

"Is Google Making Us Stupid", written by Nicholas Carr, was an essay written to examine the loss of deep reading ability in our society. Carr believed that internet reading had changed the way our memory circuits work.  The flashing advertisements and multiple articles on one site made it difficult to stay concentrated on one document.  Carr commented that he had difficulty concentrating on anything that was longer than three or four paragraphs.  I found this interesting because while reading his essay I found that my mind was straying to other things unrelated to his topic like he was describing.