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Google is fabulous, BUT ... you have to be able to sift your answers, and recognise what is worth reading/believing.
"Know your source" as we were always told at college.
"check your source" was another.
"Trust primary evidence, not secondary" was another. For those reasons, I don't use wikipediaLast edited by Two_Sheds; 17-11-2009, 07:15 PM.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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The author relates that his friends also have difficulty concentrating on large chunks of prose, I wonder if at any point he stopped to question whether it was their age and not the use of computers?Originally posted by SarzWix View Post
A bit tongue in cheek, but he doesn't seem to have considered many alternate reasons does he? And no I didnt read all the way to the end, it was a bladdy long article!WPC F Hobbit, Shire policeComment
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Uh Oh!
Did this thread go and get all serious?
We can't be having that now can we?
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I wonder if his reasons for making it such a long winded article were to convince us that our own minds have been Google zapped of the ability to concentrate on reading?!Originally posted by FionaH View PostThe author relates that his friends also have difficulty concentrating on large chunks of prose, I wonder if at any point he stopped to question whether it was their age and not the use of computers?
A bit tongue in cheek, but he doesn't seem to have considered many alternate reasons does he? And no I didnt read all the way to the end, it was a bladdy long article!
...I didn't get to the end either!
Interestingly...to me anyway!...I seemed to lose the ability to read a whole book shortly after Daisy stopped continual breast feeding.(probably would have been sooner after birth had I not had the hours that feeding gave me to sit & do nowt but read!)
I started being able to get back into a good book about a year ago...not that long after we got our first computer!
As for a Google free day...I could prossably do it!the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
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Wikipedia is fine if you have time to follow up the sources provided in the footnotes, almost like treating it as a search facility rather than a presenter of facts. That's what we've been advised by the OU anyway.Comment
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Almost every day is a Google free day for me, I hate it. I admit I'm pretty rubbish at using the internet, dont have the patience to search for stuff, so generally ask others to do it for me.
Was recently texted somewhat urgently and asked to Google the price of a bread machine. Came up with answers between 15 and 160 quid. Wasnt sure how this could be so then spent ten minutes going through things to find that some were for bits of a bread maker, some were articles telling me how they didnt stock this article any more, etc etc.
Hate it!!
If I desperately need to find something out I will call someone, or PM SBP who is the Google Queen.Bob Leponge
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