Article 1 Response

After reading "Is Google Making Us Stupid" I feel that a lot of what the author says is true.
"They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited."
I found that I do the same thing, and I also started to skim the article as soon as I started reading. The article also mentions how reading longer articles on the web is hard and is easy to loose concentration, while reading the article I agree completely. I also feel myself that Google makes us smarter as a group with internet access, but slower without electricity. Google is revolutionary to the internet and forever changed the human race accordingly. I think that the way people use Google makes them dumb but if people just use common scense along with Google people can adapt to use the internet in a smarter way.

Reading Response 3: The Shadow Over Innsmouth

    The Shadow Over Innsmouth is about a man that travels to a place to visit his family, but along the way discovers a small fishing village. He asks the local people  in the nearby town about it and finds that the locals are afraid of the area, because people would go there and never come back. I finished reading when the main character is on the bus to Innsmouth.
    In case you have never heard of the book; it is an older book written by H.P Lovecraft. It is a horror style book just like most of the writtings from Lovecraft. I like the book so far, and it is short.
        Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.