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The Digital Diet: How to break free of your smartphone and other gadgets
by confuzzled dude Sat May 28, 2011 11:21 pm
Q: Do you ever feel the urge to pull out your smartphone while someone else is making a point in a conversation?
Q: Have you ever realized that you were texting or checking your e-mail while your child was telling you about her day at school?
Q: Have you ever felt that something hasn’t really happened until you post it on Facebook?
Q: Does a flashing red light on your BlackBerry make your heart flutter?
Q: Are you spending time with your spouse or significant other without talking to each other because you’re each immersed in a different device?
If you answered yes to at least a couple of these questions, you’re among the millions of Americans being overrun by technology
Say you spend a total of two hours each day posting on Facebook or Twitter, mindlessly surfing the Web, sculpting your online image, or all of the above, in ways that don’t relate explicitly to your job. It doesn’t seem like much, but over the course of a year, that adds up to roughly 30 days — an entire month vanished in the ether. What do you have to show for it? What else could you have accomplished in that time?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-digital-diet-how-to-break-free-of-your-blackberry-smartphone-and-other-gadgets/2011/05/16/AGJy8nCH_story.html?hpid=z2
-> Dang! so right, you have got nothing to show for the lost month in a year.
Q: Have you ever realized that you were texting or checking your e-mail while your child was telling you about her day at school?
Q: Have you ever felt that something hasn’t really happened until you post it on Facebook?
Q: Does a flashing red light on your BlackBerry make your heart flutter?
Q: Are you spending time with your spouse or significant other without talking to each other because you’re each immersed in a different device?
If you answered yes to at least a couple of these questions, you’re among the millions of Americans being overrun by technology
Say you spend a total of two hours each day posting on Facebook or Twitter, mindlessly surfing the Web, sculpting your online image, or all of the above, in ways that don’t relate explicitly to your job. It doesn’t seem like much, but over the course of a year, that adds up to roughly 30 days — an entire month vanished in the ether. What do you have to show for it? What else could you have accomplished in that time?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-digital-diet-how-to-break-free-of-your-blackberry-smartphone-and-other-gadgets/2011/05/16/AGJy8nCH_story.html?hpid=z2
-> Dang! so right, you have got nothing to show for the lost month in a year.
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