"Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction"
Now a day, many of us couldn’t even imagine going a few hours without being on Facebook, texting, or checking e-mails. The second boredom arises, we dive into our digital worlds to escape it and pass the time. How might this be affecting us however? Many believe our digital devices leave us constantly distracted, yet we still refuse to put them down. Our digital devices cause such convenient distractions that sometimes there impossible to ignore. However, this takes a toll on other aspects of our lives.
“Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. In many ways, I find this very true. I believe that cell phones, iPods, and other forms of technology leave us with a short attention span due to the fact that their continuously updating you with new and fresh information. This leads us to believe that this is how it should be all the time. When our minds aren’t being constantly stimulated with intriguing information, they become preoccupied with ease.
Although technology provides us with all the information we need to survive our daily lives, it also prevents us from many things as well. But what can we do to avoid this? What will it take for us to not have Facebook open in the browser behind the essay that’s due the next morning? What will make us stop texting five different people in- between homework problems? These are questions that many of us will have to ask ourselves throughout the school year and in the future ahead. We need to limit ourselves and learn when technology is and isn’t acceptable. If not, you may be left “Wired for Distraction”
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