I thought we could think for ourselves?

After all of the reading done in "The Shallows" I realized that the content of the internet is what is changing us. Every little thing that we use on the internet affects how our brain thinks and works. its like clocks for example... we are so dependent on them that if they no longer existed what would we do ?

Confessions..

"It is people who are disappointing each other. Technology merely enables us to create a mythology in which this does not matter".  Technology is very advanced to the point where you can say and do anything on any social network. I kinda thought about a twitter concept when I read this. "Subtweeting" People get so annoyed and irritated when they figure out that someone subtweeted them, after this happens a big arguement will come out of it on twitter. Technology just made that happen because you know that the person who subtweets someone wasnt going to confront them in person. People always dissapoint others because that is just life, but technology allows us to do it in a easier and not the best way.

Betrayal of ourselves

I highlighted this in Chapter 11. "Online worlds and role playing games ask you to construct, edit, and perform a self. Yet, In these performances, like the performances we saw with sociable robots, something else breaks through. When we perform a life through our avatars, we express our hopes, strengths, and vulerabilities".  I think that a lot is wrong with the world today, that people can not express those qualities about themselves in real life but they can online. No one is proud of who they are enough these days to express it out loud. Technology has made it so easy for us to ignore our hopes and strengths and create everything we image in a avatar online.