Imagine a dieter is searching for the calorie intake of their lunch.
Imagine an Interactive Media Studies major is searching for the correct format for an html conversion.
Now imagine the student, the dieter, and the IMS major all ask you how they can find all this information. Easy right? GOOGLE!
Google has truly became so rapid, so widespread, and so prominent, that it's reached a social epidemic. It's not so much that Google itself has taken over our lives, but it's most certainly taken over our every day thoughts. We need not anymore to discover and learn the facts, for the facts are at our finger tips... with no hustle, no work, no adventure.
There lies two significant questions regarding the issue of the Google takeover, one being whether today's society is utterly addicted. Are we? I'm torn between yes and no. No because my own personal definition of addiction refers to one being attached in a literal sense to someone or something, can't live without it in one's every day life. Sure, my day, even a substantial amount of days, will be okay without the usage of Google. However, in the sense of addiction relating to one needing it at all, yes, the world is, in fact, addicted. So, sure, my day, even those substantial amount of days, will be okay without Google, but say those days Google was taken away from me were days I have a huge essay due, and I'd say... okay... maybe I'm a little addicted.
Another question regarding Google refers to the lack of privacy. Are we subject to privacy? I'd have to say no. This isn't to say that Google is a tracking device created for the sole purpose of making me feel unsafe. I do, however, believe that Google takes it upon itself to learn about my every day thoughts, questions, and wonders; the system's features allow it to grasp our frequent and most common searches, leaving the issues that I'm searching that I may want kept private, not private.
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