In Nicholas Carr's article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Carr proposes the idea that constant Google searching has made us so impatient and “stupid” that we can no longer sit and read anything remotely long. According to Carr, " The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle... I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet." Carr argues that he is not the only one facing these problems. When talking with friends about the issue, they too share the same occurrence of not being able to sit through tedious readings. Bruce Friedman says that, "the Internet has altered his mental habits. 'I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print'” Another example of Carr's support is, "a recently published study of online research habits, conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think." For Carr this effect of Google searching has personally affected his life and has realized that it is happening to more and more people everyday. There was no need for Carr to have to explain what Google is and what people are using it for because he assumes that millions of people use the search engine.
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