Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Connection is not always productive
My view point on smart phones is not in the norm. Although I have one, I absolutely hate it. In society we are pressured to have the next and up coming thing. We are always connected. I personally don't think that it's not healthy to always stay connected. That means that your brain is always being distracted. I know that I am always glancing at my phone to see if someone texted me back or if I received an email. Currently, while I am typing this blog, I have checked my phone six times; to either reply to text or to answer the phone. It's not always healthy to multitask like that. If we constantly multitask then we are always distracted. This feeds into distractions in things that we need to be focused on. Today, people in school are not doing as well on test, because they don't know how to relax and focus on one thing. I know that when I take a test, I am think about everything from where I am going this weekend, to what guy I think is cute, to how much I need to start working out again. My mind is all over the place because of the constant connection we have to all the different varieties of communication. I mean think about it. We are not only connected by phone but then we have Facebook, Twitter, text messages, computers, emails and Skype. We are constantly connected and have absolutely no time to rest.This also makes problems when going to sleep because your mind is constantly churning. I honestly think that society is going to come to a point that we are going to have major focusing and sleeping problem if not already.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree, I feel that having phones and other devices that are able to handle more at one time than anyone could focus on in an entire day and causes us to become overloaded, almost forcing us to multitask. And when we multitask; instead of doing a few things well ,we would rather do numerous things poorly. My iPhone gave me ADD...
ReplyDeleteI disagree, the human ability to focus has not changed, people just focus on the wrong tasks. The part of the brain that covers multitasking is always engaged. Humans find ways to calm this constant process by doing things like yoga, napping, daydreaming, working out, reading, and many more. I personally like to go to the gym, crank my music up really loud and lift as much weight as humanly possible. I think what you are referring to is "stress." I agree that humans are more stressed out in the 21st century than any other time before. It's understandable though if you think about how many things humans have to do in a single day just to stay on top. We just don't have enough time to do things like sleep or relax. But the smartphone allowed people to interact in a way that no one has ever seen before and this is something people fear. And for good reason, because of the smartphone, most of your information is out there for everyone to see and there is simply nothing you can do about it. However, we "as a nation," have become far too reliant on the "smart" phone that we will soon see a downward spiral in the education of today's youth.
ReplyDeleteOkay, it's about 30 mins. long, but I really think that all of you would be interested in an NPR podcast: Rethinking how we teach the 'Net Generation', which you can find here.
ReplyDeleteyou can just click on "here"
DeleteI agree with you. I have a smartphone and I don't think it's all that "smart." Staying connected is a big distraction in my opinion as well, sometimes we need time alone from all technology.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying, but even though as distracting as they are, they can be really convenient
ReplyDelete