As we can see in the article "Is google making us stupid?" Writers tend to lose concentration when using the Internet. Taking in count that more than 30% of the Internet is Porn, and there must be a huge percentage of cats and viral videos, there is not a big percentage of useful information or academic web pages, Most of the internet is basically free, infinite source of fun or entertainment. This is the reason a big percentage of people tend to lose their concentration really easily doing an academic work while connected. our concentration on the internet is extremely low. When, for example, someone is going to make an Article for his english class, he opens youtube or spotify, while opening facebook and 9gag, and Losing ourselves with Social Media. We can't concentrate.
Another big issue is the detachment of reality. There are people who can stay extensive amounts of time playing videogames or watching netflix all day. There are various issues with this. First, there are people so addicted at the internet games such as League of Legends or World of Warcraft that they literally die in front of their PC´s for Starvation, because the game is so immersive and absorbing that the player lost sense of reality, and control of the time played. this is a big issue, because the person gets addicted to the game and can stay up to 46 hours playing. So they became zombies. But let´s talk about “common” people, not “Addicts”. The “Common” Average american citizen spends more than 5.5 hours a day in his phone/PC on the internet. And i bet they are not working. Because the absorption of the media is extremely time wasting, and people don't know where to stop. Basically we lose our time to think, to hear good music, to play an instrument,to talk to someone, to write or to just simply relax with candles, a hot tub and classical music because we are all the time connected, texting, watching videos, looking at social media or playing videogames.
Another big issue is the detachment of reality. There are people who can stay extensive amounts of time playing videogames or watching netflix all day. There are various issues with this. First, there are people so addicted at the internet games such as League of Legends or World of Warcraft that they literally die in front of their PC´s for Starvation, because the game is so immersive and absorbing that the player lost sense of reality, and control of the time played. this is a big issue, because the person gets addicted to the game and can stay up to 46 hours playing. So they became zombies. But let´s talk about “common” people, not “Addicts”. The “Common” Average american citizen spends more than 5.5 hours a day in his phone/PC on the internet. And i bet they are not working. Because the absorption of the media is extremely time wasting, and people don't know where to stop. Basically we lose our time to think, to hear good music, to play an instrument,to talk to someone, to write or to just simply relax with candles, a hot tub and classical music because we are all the time connected, texting, watching videos, looking at social media or playing videogames.