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.