Essay in Internet Dependence

Internet Dependence among Silliman University Students

“‘Google it’, the go- to answer for most of us when general interest,

skepticism, or flat out nothing enters our brain”. For the past few years, many of

us gather information from the internet, and Google has become our know-it-all

friend. Internet offers a lot of information in the fastest and easiest way

especially to students. Some students have even declared that their life would be

meaningless without internet which only shows how important accessing internet

is to them. It has been noticed that internet dependent students cannot initiate

ideas without turning to the internet. Although internet had been a very useful

source of information to us over the past years, it has been observed that

students tend to rely too much on the internet that they end up collecting all

information from internet sources without deep reading and further analysis on

gathered data. Are they really learning the information they seek or are they just

remembering how and where to locate it?

Study shows that too much reliance on the internet is fundamentally

changing how our brains work and how our minds function. Evidently, thinking is

important since it teaches how to assess questions and situations from a

different viewpoint, and therefore learn more than originally thought and such

processes include remembering, forming concepts, reasoning, and translating

thoughts into words and so on. Generally, Internet dependence hinders students

to generate their own ideas and with those mentioned skills discourage, it may

end up to fractured thinking. In line with this, Internet dependence among

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Silliman University students greatly affects their memory, reasoning

and creative thinking skills.

This paper discusses on how Internet Dependence cognitively affects

students thinking particularly their...