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The internet is a powerful source of information, which has wrought great changes in the way we access information and conduct research. A recent study has proven that young minds are thinking and assimilating information differently than older minds as result of the influence of the internet.

A study was recently conducted to analyse the influence of the internet over the thinking process of young people. 100 young people were asked to research answers to a few questions with the help of the internet. These participants were aged twelve to eighteen. It was found that the younger group took less time and also accessed fewer web pages to answer the questions when compared with older participants in the same study. Further, about forty percent of the young participants accessed three or lesser than three web pages in the course of this search. On the other hand, older participants took a longer time to finish the test and also visited the same web page again and again for reference.

The observations made during the study prove that the internet develops associative thinking. This is a process where the mind does not rest on any one source with concentration but moves from one to the other. This impedes the person’s ability to concentrate (

more detailed information about this study on BBC2 Virtual Revolution series).

Professor David Nicholas has warned this change in the process of thinking of the young people is not good. The younger generation, which is more accustomed to using the internet, where information is stored in the form of inter linked pages, is showing an inclination to follow the same pattern in their own thought processes, he said.

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