What is the Internet doing to our brains?

      I strongly agree that the Internet is changing the way our brains work, and how we remembered the information. In the past before the Internet was created; individuals needed to read entire books or articles to find the information they needed. They spend hours reading to be able to find the answers they were looking for. The more time people spend reading, the longer they remember the stuff they read.

I think that the distractions of the Internet interfere with the way we process information of how memory consolidation is converting short-term memory to long-term memory.   In the first place, we are thinking more like computers, taking the information from the Internet, but not retain it. Not only but, now with a quick search on Google; the Internet gives us the answer.  We quickly read it not allowing enough time for our brain to process the information.  As a matter of fact, it is store in the short-term memory where it is lost, and we will not remember it for long. As the same time, If we Google a question many options will appear on the browser that we only take a quick glance at it.  Therefore, we don't take the time focus on one thing long enough to allow our brain to remember it. If we take thirty minutes to read a website it is most likely to store this information in our long-term memory. After all, we all use the Internet the same way.