Introduction The current generation has been born in a digital world where the internet is the place where they get all the information. The younger generation is enjoying the internet that has come with the technological changes of the 21 st century. Most of the young individuals are growing up hyper-connected to one another via the internet. This is where they communicate through the various social networks and access information that include those concerning their class work. This has seen some individuals opt to visit the internet rather than sit down in a library and read a book. The internet is a place where the present generation relies for solace but the effects in the future may not be promising. The World Wide Web has been relied upon for various types of information including scholarly information, news, weather forecast, and social interaction, among many other uses. Social networks include Facebook and Twitter (Gladwell, 2010). These are places where people chat and share information including texts, photos and videos (Anderson & Wolff, 2010). This has increased efficiency in communication and sharing of information and has been taken as a positive attribute, courtesy of technology. This reliance on the internet has had various effects including both positive and negative ones but the actual effect in the long run is of major concern. Various experts and analysts have provided their views on the issue and the facts are staggering. Some literature provides arguments that suggest that the internet may take a toll on people’s ability for deep thought and extended contemplation. This is due to some of the habits that people develop as they get used to getting information from the internet as opposed to getting it from books or other printouts. The main purpose of this research paper is to investigate the effects of the internet on people’s ability for deep thought and extended contemplation. Various sources will be consulted in order to get the views of the various authors and analysts concerning the subject. The paper will also narrow down to determine how the internet affects the various aspects of the reasoning ability of the human. This would bring insight on the exact effects of the internet. Literature review Germano (2012) had observed the current trends in the education system and was astonished by the way scholars do their reading and research. He wondered why scholars used books less often than in the past. In the past, they had always relied on books as their source of information but many changes have occurred lately since many of them now rely on the internet for information. Some researchers (neuroscientists) discovered that there was a difference in the brain structure of individuals who had different social behaviour on the social networks such as Facebook. They suggested that those who had many friends in the social network had denser grey matter is particular regions of their brains (Fleming, 2011). This observation could mean one of two things. Firstly, it could be that the social networks changed the portions of the brain. Alternatively, it could mean that those people born with those types of brains behaved differently on such social sites. It was impossible to point out which of the two was the case. However, the difference in the brain structure showed a difference in the interactions (number of connections). The effects of the sites on the structure and functioning of the brain depends on whether the soci