Is google making us Stupid

In Carr's Is google making us stupid Carr talks about how technology has made people stupid. He talks about one person who was a lit major who doesn't even read books anymore. He says he cant do it because hes so used to skimming through articles on the internet.

I kind of agree with Carr. I think that people of new technology people have become worse at reading and writing. Most people now will shorten words or misspell them when they write because that is how they text or im. This is also making people worse readers. People are now reading these messages and forgetting the right way to spell some words. They are also becoming worse readers because they are just skimming. This is causing people attention spans to get smaller and now they can't read long articles or book.

But i don't think this is necessarily making people stupid. The internet in my opinion actually makes people smarter. Now because of the internet people can research things so much quicker. People used to not know things because of the time it would take them to look through books to find the information. Now people can find this information in minutes as apposed to hours or even days. People also now can know things a lot quicker. New information can be discovered minutes ago and people already know it because it can be put on the internet. Now since people can find these things a lot quicker, now they will actually find out more information because it isn't so time consuming.