Strange Ways of the Internet

     The internet has grown us, humans, into what we think we are as "smarter." When in reality all the internet is doing to us is changing how our brains process things.

The internet is said in the article, How Does the Internet Affect Our Thinking? is causing our brains to slow down. With all the distractions, our brain is having a hard time understanding what it is trying to understand. Distractions around us every day cause our brain to work harder than it normally has to. And normally just reading anything off the internet will make you dumber. Because with any types of ads on a page it distracts us from the said story. 

Then when you read something online compared to a book in front of you, your long-term and short-term memory are also changing. With reading online, your long-term memory won't hold as much information compared to when you would read a book in front of you. It would only go to your short-term memory which wouldn't stay in your mind as long as something in your long-term memory.

In the second article, How Can We Protect Truth in the Age of Misinformation? A false tweet was sent out on Twitter saying "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barak Obama is Injured." This misinformational tweet lead to the stock market crashing as soon as people started to tweet about it. There was a major problem in that because if more tweets were sent out about this at any time, the stock market could completely crash. So misinformation tweets can seriously damage our country or others at any point without us realizing it. 

Celebrity Influence

     With the whole system of advertising and celebrities being influencers, its had a huge impact on the Generation: Z. In the video "How Generation Z Has Changed Who Our Celebrities ARE" by John Comonitski, He brings up the fact that the celebrities we knew, are meant to stay on "brand" or to stay popular. Which is why in the reading "In Defense of Our Tabloid Culture" It is important for all celebrities to keep their daily lives up on the internet. People are always wanting to know what is going on in a celeb's life, so when they get something from them, that celebrity will remain popular. Another thing between the articles is some of the video/movie scenarios. For example,  a video that was posted by Logan Paul a few years back went viral because of how real the video was, it was too real. Just like when movies are so good, that sometimes they may feel real to others, especially if it was based on a real story. But Logan took that whole scenario to a different level. Children, even my generation, has seen this video.  But when it comes youtube and actual actors. Actors always have some kind of person following behind their footsteps to make sure they don't step out of line. But when it comes to YouTuber influencers, they are responsible for themselves, so when something goes wrong, it would all be piled onto them, and not another person. Which is why Generation Z is changing, We see videos, we want to either recreate those videos, or we just idolize the types of people we see on a daily basis. Celebrities are a major part to a kid's life. Which it is important, Why Generation Z, needs that good Celebrity Influence.

Culture is Challenging.. :(

     In our everyday lives, popular culture is always around us. Cultures have ways of challenging people to get out into the world and explore each other's perspectives. Perspectives are different for everyone, so when we learn and change our views on what we learn, popular culture is testing us in that very moment. In the video "Clear Eyes on the Full Heart of Popular Culture" Jamie states that popular culture has people confronting each other on their views everyday. Just by pulling a certain view of life can set something off that will have people confronting each other.    She gives examples of the areas of where confrontation mostly happens, and that is Facebook or any other comment thread. This is important because people can confront others about what they don't believe, and what they do believe. It's just a matter of how people view things.  She then says something about confidence and how it has better value than having a skill. People would probably even discuss this over and have their own views. So it's always important to listen to another person's views and respect their views on a certain topic, rather than pushing your views onto them. A positive way of popular culture challenging us would be finding other's views on life and then realizing that you have a similar outlook on life. It gets us out of our comfort zones everyday. It allows us to connect with people and to have basic interactions with them. So when popular culture allows us to actually interact and get to know people, it helps us in the long run.  But negatively, popular culture can start arguments. This may be due to someone not agreeing to what someone is saying. Then when they keep bickering about it, it can grow to a much bigger problem. Problems being physical, mental or emotional abuse. So with that, popular culture can really challenge our relationships with others and how people view us as a person.