The End of The Internet
The internet offers what seems like endless ways to communicate. Just over the past 15 years, sending letters has morphed into sending the same messages digitally (or “electronically,” as the name implies): referring to email. And even still, in many ways, email has taken a backseat in digital communication. Friends don’t “email” each other and ask about going to the movies. They use snapchat, they text (technically not internet-based but I’m including it for the sake of this argument), they post their thoughts on facebook, and they “slide into dm’s on twitter.” That’s just a start of it.
It’s estimated that the average “millennial” in the US uses the internet for up to 54 percent of his or her daily communication (Kotzanikolaoa, 2017). Over half of the communication taking place is nonverbal, internet-based.
That’s why if the internet disappeared today, there would be a significant loss in the social life, which is highly communication-dependent.
Gerhard Lenski’s theorization about “sociocultural evolution” is defined as “"the process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure which is qualitatively different from the ancestral form (Blute, 2016).” Basically, slow change taking place over time will eventually change the society. Think of an artist with a solid white canvas. If that artist brushed blue paint onto the canvas, one stroke at a time, eventually it would change color completely.
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Both authors point out the negative reasons of using “too much” internet and less interaction with people. Because people lose their focus from doing the work. Carr offers concern by stating how writing few pages is hard and reading long articles has become difficult. Car writes, “Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it” (55). Even he has become the victim of online browsing and not able to write long articles, which shows how he has problems focusing on writing a blog. More easiness has made people lazier because people do not have to put extra effort to do any tasks. Therefore, Carr says that some people would save a long article to read it later, but the chances are less that people actually go back and finish it (55). He also shows how people may forget to work on something they had saved for later while doing something online. However, they tend to forget it because some may get distracted from scrolling through one link to another which slips out of their mind. Bauerlein would strongly agree with Carr that people are becoming more distracted and technology-like. Bauerlein also shows the concern that people use fake facial expression to describe their expression. He argues that people send “smileys” and “emoji’s” when they send text messages on phones or inserts an emoji on Facebook, but their actual expression could be completely different and no one would figure it out (77). It prevents people from knowing a person very well because they could have a totally different perspective about them over the phones. Bauerlein describes his concern that people are not at their benefits when they talk through “emoji’s” on the phone because they would not be able to figure out a person’s hand movements when they talk about certain things or their actual facial
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