Social Networking Leading To Less Critical Thinking

Roderick Ioerger wrote an interesting post for Marketing Pilgrim a few days ago, where he asked trust and in the queries you devise to find that information.

As I said in a comment on Roderick’s post:

There will always be some who prefer to find information themselves and there will always be some who ask others for the information. In the end we all still have to make our own decisions on what we think is right and wrong.

The same people who turn to social media as a way to avoid thinking for themselves would find a way to avoid thinking regardless of the existence of social media. Sure a wealth of sources can help facilitate a lack of critical thinking for some people, but it’s not the cause of their lack of critical thinking. Those same people likely view one and only one search result. They likely ask the person sitting next to them prior to searching.

Some people avoid thought at all costs. There always have been and there always will be tools to enable that. The tools are not to blame, though.

A few months back I posted how