Is the Internet a Huge Homogenizer?

Is the Internet a huge homogenizer? So you are viewing an article online, then you get a pop-out widows showing the funniest video on YouTube today --- a dog fights with a baby --- which of course you would like to share; then you find you have got unread massages on twitter; while checking, you notice on Facebook that Taylor Swift has published her new album; then you go to iTunes store to buy the music online. This experience is from an actual narrative of an Internet user. Surprisingly, according to an anonymous online survey, ninety-six percent of Internet users confessed that they had same experiences. Not only do we perform similarly online, we gradually behave identically in the real life. For example, we follow the same route suggestions on Google map when going to some unfamiliar places; we speak in the same style when it is popular the twitter; we imitate the highest-clicking video on YouTube; we purchased the same products listed on Feds.com. In this way, the Internet is becoming a huge homogenization for the much of the world. Search engine like Google and social networking like Facebook, which are two major parts of the Internet, are homogenization Internet users in two main directions. “I google everything I need to know” said Windy Suh, an editor for Washington post. Surely, this habit must be shared by a lot of people, including me. Internet search engine has make people think more similarly because most of users are coming to follow the “Internet thinking pattern”, which means that people tend to throw all the thinking work to the search engine and wait for the result. This thinking pattern marks “Google” as the solution to any problem. One of the reasons why this situation has happened is that the Internet has evolved so fast that an individual can’t handle so much overwhelming information. Without search engine, we would be dazzled by the trillions of data streams. Thus, the Internet gradually does the all thinking work