It’s Messing With our Attention Spans. Humans used to have the span of 12 seconds. In 2000, the scientists found that it suddenly dropped to 8 seconds. That was 18 years ago. How much worse did it get since then?

We’re Trapped in a Cycle of Perpetual Distraction. According to a 2016 study, the average smartphone user can check their phone around 2,600 times a day. It's become an addiction of sort.

The Internet is Making our Long-Term Memory Worse. Instead of being attentive and remember data, we rely on the fact that we can google for things we need to know and intentionally avoid important knowledge until it's required for something specific.

It Makes us Feel More Connected, and Yet Still Totally Alone. People have stopped meeting face to face, while they connect to hundreds or even thousands of people online. How many of them have you actually met and talked to?

The Internet Makes us Less Empathic. With Twitter beefs, trolls, cyber bullies, comments, it’s too easy to say something mean. It's portrayed nicely in the South Park episode where Gerald Broflovsky loses all moral restraints when he becomes an Internet troll.

It Might be Making Us Smarter, yet Dumber at the Same Time. Sometimes, instead of getting smarter and more efficient, all this data we’re getting online is making us a shallow thinker. You obtain the information you think is valuable and at that point you learn to neglect the information you think isn't.

The Internet Confuses What’s Important. We just get drawn to what’s new and exciting, especially what's causing controversy. Instead of focusing on important matters, we tend to be interested with the lives of celebrities.

We’re Becoming Less Literary Because of the Internet. Kids in school aren’t capable of reading and retaining longer books. While they type and read daily, the quality of that is very low and limited mostly to short sentences.

It’s Creating A Hive Mind. The most popular ideas and fads are the ones most shared.

It Devalues the Importance of Solitary Contemplation. When you're being told what to think it's not easy to develop your own view on things. You're getting bombarded by propaganda regularly on the Internet, and you're not even aware of it.

It Convinces People That it’s Okay to ‘Think’ Out Loud. Now people are using the internet as a personal digital megaphone to say the stupidest things that come to mind.

It Raises Our Ambient Awareness. Instead of relying on body language and other clues, we look at social posts and what others want to share with you. Blatant lies become inspirational stories, and imaginary lives are the online reality some people are serving you.