Blog Prompt #3

Google

 Does Google have too much power over our lives?

Have you seen those commercials with that cute little girl asking her phone if dog's dream? She was asking Google. Google seems to have all the answers. 

There was a time when people had a spiritual connection to find answers. People would turn to God, their priests, pastors, and other members of their congregation for answers about their lives. There were witch doctors and regular doctors to ask questions about their health. There were lawyers, judges, and Liberians to answer logical questions. Now that we have a .000002 second search engine, we don't need other people to help us answer our questions. We don't need that personal connection with other people to satisfy our curiosity.

To be honest, I am one of those people. I use Google for everything. I will ask stupid questions daily for Google to pop up links to websites that may have the answers. 
Here are a few things I may Google daily: 

• Weather for the day
• Lyrics to a song I don't know the name/artist
• To go to my school's website
• The address to a place I want to get to

People use this tool throughout their day. Instead of typing the "www." and the ".com" we just take the extra time to Google the website we want to see.

Are we addicted to Google?

Above proves that I am addicted. The four examples above are some things I would ask on a typical day. There are days where I search a million things because I am either too tired to think, too tired to read a book for the answer, too tired to contact a professional for their opinion, and too tired to ask a friend or a relative's opinion or answer. 

Google can be addicting but on the other hand, people who use the Apple's Siri or the Android equivalent are even lazier.  They won't even take the time to type in a question or search phrase. They just click a button, ask the question, and Siri will either answer the question with her voice or pop up a few websites that can help to find the answer.

Does the Googlization of our lives  endanger our privacy or our independence in important ways (as some critics suggest)? 

It can take away our privacy, but what do we have to hide? If we are planning to endanger others, then yes we should not have any privacy with Google. I feel like Google has the right to penalize anyone with strange activity on their Google account, or tracking where the computer is located.  


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