To figure out what to write about I went to google and typed "is" and then a letter. Then I let google instant fill in the rest. What comes up are the most searched. Like this:
It's so much fun! The things that come up are ridiculous!! I'll answer these:
1. Yes
2. Who cares?
3. No
4. Obviously not.
So i found my topic with the letter "g" This is what came up:
Hmm, is George Jones dead? So I looked up who George Jones is and I don't think he's dead. And everyone should know George Clooney is not gay. And then is google making us stupid? HA! Well, I thought that was interesting and so i searched it. (btw idk if gluten is bad for you bc i eat anything i want for those of you who were wondering) I found this article. It was very interesting and I think majority of us can relate to it!
Information is so easy to access these days that we don't even have to use our brains much. We just google everything. Don't know what to write? Google it! Don't know where to live? Google it! Don't know how to drive? Google it! Don't know how to take screenshot on mac? Google it! (I did this one for the above pictures.) Admit it guys, it's a problem. But nobody is willing to fix it. Life is easier with the internet. It's always faithful. So anyways apparently our dependency on the internet is leading to lack of concentration. So yes, google is making us stupid. Blah. Ok read the article! I don't feel like writing if you haven't noticed. More google questions! (because those are fun) (i just realized that this post is an example of how google is making is stupid) sigh. Oh well.
No, youtube is not down. Is y a vowel? Sometimes? (i just realized i don't know when) Is yawning contagious?!?!??! What! The first article to come up says it definitely is. It can be almost impossible not to yawn after watching someone else do it. WHAT! Is yahoo mail down? I wouldn't know. I abandoned my Yahoo for gmail. (google ftw!)
Okay bye. Sorry that this post is poorly written!
This was a really interesting blog post. Sometimes the strangest things show up on google. I remember I was looking up Alexander Hamilton and typed "Alexander Hamilton is" on Google once and I got "Alexander Hamilton is hot". I am a bit disturbed that there are people who are crushing on one of the founding fathers.
ReplyDeleteHaha that was such an interesting way to figure out what to blog about! I don't think Google is making us stupid. I think that people tend to be lazy because they have access to and can depend on a useful search engine. They may lose motivation and initiative, but they're not necessarily stupid. People learn new things every day from using Google.
ReplyDeleteI see where you're going on this and I agree. But this laziness and loss of motivation may lead to lower intelligence. (stupidity would be going to far) With no motivation to acquire knowledge, it becomes difficult to learn much past the basics.
DeleteThis has to be the most creative thing ever! I love how you did that. Ok, well on the Gluten thing (my mom has an allergy), Gluten is in all wheat and bread. So the only time it is bad for you is if you have Celiac Disease or an allergy to gluten. Also, for the yawning thing, I don't think that article was extremly scientific. I mean, personally, I think it is contagious, but I wouldn't count on that article being legit.
ReplyDeleteI like your out of the box thinking. The Google article reminds me oh how Mr. Sager calls the internet the "dumb world of idiots" or something like that lol.
ReplyDeleteI thought your idea of finding what to post was very cute. I too think that google is making us dumber.
ReplyDeleteI thought your post this week was really awesome! It was something that i never thought of doing. I also agree that we live in a world where we base of lives off the internet.
ReplyDeleteYour post is so intriguing! The way we rely so much on the internet is so heavy that we are all losing valuable skills! This reminds me of our memory lesson in psychology when she said that our generation is so bad with essay tests because we hate having to think analytically about things. We just want to give that ONE definite answer.
ReplyDeleteThat was a creative way of finding what to blog about haha. I agree with you. The internet is making human kind stupid. We are so reliant on Google or other websites, we don't even try to do anything by ourselves. Our generation is based on the internet. I doubt George Cloney is gay.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was so interesting! Nowadays we don't need to remember everything that we learn because we have google to think for us! I think this will affect us as a society in the long run because we won't think for ourselves because we will be accustomed to just google everything.
ReplyDeleteAutocomplete. Such an ingenious invention, and yet the source of so many problems.
ReplyDeleteI tried typing "is " into the search bar and I saw "Is Morgan Freeman Dead?"
That is blasphemy and I will not stand for it. Morgan Freeman is GOD.
Also yes I completely agree that Google is making us stupid. It's not because of what everyone else is saying, though. It's because of autocomplete.