What is Technology Doing to Us?
Hm, so despite the fact I said I would be posting here more often, and updating you what I had done this summer, I still have not. XD I'm sorry, but apparently, I need to get my priorities straight. Look forward to a rather long, rambling, and boring post sometime in the next few weeks. But knowing my track record, that might be sometime in the next few months.
Anyway, before I do a real update, I thought I would post this article here. I found it extremely interesting:
Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain
I have to say, I really wouldn't mind embarking on a trip like this. Spending a week (or more), out in the wilderness, away from everything seems like it would be a nice change of pace. Despite the fact that I love my friends and honestly like to be involved in their lives, it all gets to be a bit too much sometimes. With websites that have constant streaming feeds of information, like Facebook and Twitter, it makes me feel overwhelmed. Do I really need to know that you "just woke up! Gonna make myself some yummy breakfast soon!"? I'm sorry, but, no!! Before the advent of social networking status messages, did people really tell each other this? I highly doubt it. So, I think there's no reason for it now.
For about the first half of the summer, I was pretty much absent from social networking sites. With so much other stuff going on, I practically forgot it existed, which was actually nice. But then, I realized that during the summer is the time to catch up with people, since I could actually have a chance of seeing some of them, now that I was back home, so I connected myself back into it. But, instead, I haven't actually seen anyone, and I've forced myself back into the bad habit of checking my Facebook news feed every few minutes. That isn't what I need! And like I said before, most of the updates are rather useless anyway. But I find myself strangely addicted to knowing exactly what is happening every minutes. Same thing goes for email. When email was the most popular method of communication, I had my email client open all the time. And I checked it like, every 5 minutes. So, like the article said, the internet does seem to have some addicting qualities. Also, I think that since I've gotten more "technologically savvy", I've gotten more ADD. I used to be able to sit down, and finish a project (like homework), in 1 sitting. Now, I'm off on the Internet every 5 minutes. I know it's horrible and does nothing for my productivity, but I can't seem to help myself! Maybe I need some intervention.
I guess I sort of felt like I wouldn't be spending much time on the Internet once I got back to school (which is entirely not true), so I would do it during the summer. Now, I'm sort of wishing I just stayed off. I need a break. But not really from LJ. I rather like it here.
And I'm off to check my Facebook again.
Anyway, before I do a real update, I thought I would post this article here. I found it extremely interesting:
Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain
I have to say, I really wouldn't mind embarking on a trip like this. Spending a week (or more), out in the wilderness, away from everything seems like it would be a nice change of pace. Despite the fact that I love my friends and honestly like to be involved in their lives, it all gets to be a bit too much sometimes. With websites that have constant streaming feeds of information, like Facebook and Twitter, it makes me feel overwhelmed. Do I really need to know that you "just woke up! Gonna make myself some yummy breakfast soon!"? I'm sorry, but, no!! Before the advent of social networking status messages, did people really tell each other this? I highly doubt it. So, I think there's no reason for it now.
For about the first half of the summer, I was pretty much absent from social networking sites. With so much other stuff going on, I practically forgot it existed, which was actually nice. But then, I realized that during the summer is the time to catch up with people, since I could actually have a chance of seeing some of them, now that I was back home, so I connected myself back into it. But, instead, I haven't actually seen anyone, and I've forced myself back into the bad habit of checking my Facebook news feed every few minutes. That isn't what I need! And like I said before, most of the updates are rather useless anyway. But I find myself strangely addicted to knowing exactly what is happening every minutes. Same thing goes for email. When email was the most popular method of communication, I had my email client open all the time. And I checked it like, every 5 minutes. So, like the article said, the internet does seem to have some addicting qualities. Also, I think that since I've gotten more "technologically savvy", I've gotten more ADD. I used to be able to sit down, and finish a project (like homework), in 1 sitting. Now, I'm off on the Internet every 5 minutes. I know it's horrible and does nothing for my productivity, but I can't seem to help myself! Maybe I need some intervention.
I guess I sort of felt like I wouldn't be spending much time on the Internet once I got back to school (which is entirely not true), so I would do it during the summer. Now, I'm sort of wishing I just stayed off. I need a break. But not really from LJ. I rather like it here.
And I'm off to check my Facebook again.