Is The Internet Making Us Crazy?

[Cheryl Nelson]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/08/is-the-internet-making-us-crazy-what-the-new-research-says.html

I just said tonight in one of the other blogs how my on-line life and real life are so dramatically opposite.  Then I stumble upon this article, as if to say, yes, you are discerning a problem here.

What do you think?

[Cheryl Nelson]

That's good.  The study that said the group's brain was rewired after only five hours was troubling.  Let's hope that's not the case for everyone.

[Rosemary S]

No and I do not think that it is.I am very specific in what I read and spend a limited amount of time on the web.

[Cheryl Nelson]

But, Rosemary, do you really want your brain rewired? 

[Rosemary S]

But even if we have a kind of double personality, we find on internet the information we need. I use to have my own blog. I would spend hours looking at different sites to get the information I really needed. At the same time I grew in knowledge and in analytical skills. To me the same apply here. The added bonus here is that we kind of talk to one another. And this to me is very important. Ok there is the gloom and doom, but we learn so much in the process about other things. You are very good Keith at looking at information in a level headed manner and you express your view that make us think again at what is posted in a new light. Cheryl you give us a lot of links on a variety of angles. It is fun to read from different authors. We either agree or disagree. That is our choice. It may be a kind of addiction, but groups form because we need to exchange ideas with like minded people.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Yes, it's not healthy.