Response to Rachel's Google Response

Indeed I understand your point of view--this ease of access to the Internet and information makes it so much easier for a person to stray away from their main intention of using the Internet in the first place.  I, for one, am guilty of this act and I am pretty sure anybody who uses the Internet is guilty of this act at least once in their Internet lives.  My brother is also prone to this disease (if you could call it that).  However, I guess he is one of the few that browse around from link to link yet still retain the information he has read for quite a long time.  Most of the time the information he obtains from these periods of browsing is somehow relevant to what is happening around the world--be it celebrity news or international crises, he knows it.  It's sort of freaky at time, but it goes to show that this access to information is indeed useful is one chooses to use the information provided in the right way.