Tuesday, October 12, 2010

googled?

I do not think it's scary or horrible that google is "colonizing earth".  I think that someday it can be an asset to some kind of global future.  My concern is with the fact of how everything is so accessible.  Not just for privacy and the fact that all you have to do is type in some ones name and you can learn how much they paid for their house, things about their future, and so on.  It also makes me nervous for today's youth, including people my age.  The problem with google is it has made it's users, including myself, lazy.  For instance, research projects for school, or even when you have a "real" job.  It is so easy to just copy and paste someone else's work or find false/random  information.  It has become harder to tell what is actually  "legit" information.  It's not that making information more accessible is entirely bad, but when you make things that easy to find, it makes people lethargic.  I feel like in turn this makes people lethargic in life in general.  Google makes everything so easy, I feel eventually people will lose the knowledge of what "good hard work" is.  

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