Is Our Cognitive Process In Trouble?

This article is talking about how the internet is helping retrieve information, but could possibly be hurting our cognitive process of making knowledgeable thoughts on our own. It says that the internet is a quick way to gain information and its training us to only be able to focus one one thing for a short amount of time. Many have even said that can't read a few pages of a book without seeming to lose their train of thought. Literacy can be defined in this article as being able to swim deeply in your thoughts while reading rather than just skimming the top of the water. The writer provides much evidence from interviewing his colleagues and asking how the internet has affected their thinking process. The evidence seems to be very strong and convincing and could provide further research into this area.

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson is one of the hosts of the British car show called Top Gear. He is very active on twitter with posting pictures, interacting with people, and he also tweets freely and pretty colorfully. He also is very sarcastic and likes to speak his mind on certain global topics. This creates an interesting and very funny twitter feed.

Social Media

I am an avid twitter, facebook, and instagram user. With these social media sites I try to tweet mainly about sports, my family/friends, and a lot about music also. With this I hope to interact with family and maybe even introduce people to new music or other subjects. Many photos I have posted lately are about the Pittsburgh Pirates, because my whole family lives there and its nice to talk to them about our favorite sports teams. I also post a lot about the Pittsburgh sports teams on facebook, that way family or friends can start a conversation with about whatever I had posted. I also post videos of myself playing guitar, because I like express myself with music.

My social media accounts are a great representation of what kind of person I am. I dont like to think that they define me, because I am not always posting everyday, but it would be a great way to get to know who I am. I dont think I have a certain standard to uphold in social media, its not that big of a thing, its just nice to have something that helps you keep up with the world. I would still get the job, I usually try to keep it pretty clean on my accounts and I believe I would still get the job.