Unplug Yourself From All That

 

Cohen, S. (2014). A Reunion with Boredom By Charles Simic. In 50 essays A Portable Anthology (Fourth ed., pp. 375-376). Boston, MA: Bedford/ St. Martin's.

In A Reunion with Boredom, Charles Simic (2011,p. 374) says, "a quiet place to sit and think." Simic states this referring that technology has distracted ones deep thought. As for him he comes to deep thought by sitting in a dark house for three days contemplating to himself. Of course everyone is different in their own unique way of finding that quiet place to sit and think but Simic thinks that people are more and more attached to technology that they don’t have time to sit and think. Well as for me, I need the time to just think to myself and I do that by running outside. Back home in high school when times got tough I'd lace up my running shoes and just ran for miles thinking out loud to myself. To this day whenever I am stressed, sad, happy, motivated and a lot on my mind running is my quiet time to myself.  

It's No Secret That We Use Social Media... A Lot

Link: http://mashable.com/2012/12/15/social-media-brain/#m!7e44

I would choose money over Facebook. Not in a greedy way but I am not much of a Facebook person and I would have cash in my pocket for a road trip to Canada. Now if the question was revised and asked "Social media or money - which do you choose?" I believe that there are people out there that value social media too much over other priorities. Social media is addicting because it is all about the user. Talking about ourselves becomes a tough habit to break. Research says that twitter, Facebook and other social media websites are hard to resist from other urges, including: smoking, drinking, spending money, and sleeping. The average Facebook user spends about 405 minutes on the site each month. All it takes is several minutes through out the day to constantly be checking their updates. Those several minutes add up! What I get from this picture is that social media is the new addiction and it is getting harder to break away from.

Are We Unintelligent?

Carr, N. (2008 July/August). Is Google making us stupid? The Atlantic, 302(1), 56-63.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

Nicholas Carr's essay, Is Google Making Us Stupid, claims that the Internet is taking a toll on his comprehension towards reading. Carr supports his ideas by pointing out how he's lost the ability to stay focused and how his concentration often starts to drift quickly. He isn't alone he asks his fellow peers and acquaintances and they state the same claim; that the more they use the web, the more their brain functions is being effected. Carr goes on about how back in the day library access was the only way of gathering the information you needed. Now it is provided within seconds with a click of a button on the web. You wouldn't suspect that reading something off the web would have any savior impact towards your comprehension with reading. We have been so immune with technology devices that in today's society it’s everywhere. Everyone reading off of; their phones, menu's displayed on television screens and schools having eBooks rather than regular text books. In the end, Carr's ideas of technology questions how the system plays so many roles in our lives, or has come to influencing over our thoughts as the internet does today.