Technological Distraction

Lauren Shinozuka, author of the article “The Dangers of Digital Distractedness,” illustrates in her work the havoc that has been brought upon Millennials by social media. Young adults have grown to be addicted to any sort of social outlet, whether it is via cell phone or laptop; and as a result have long forgotten the importance of face-to-face interactions. The technological age is well underway; and for many, there seems to be no way to reverse the social damage that has already been done. Although there are some perks to this age of technology, such as being able to easily navigate through Web pages and using smartphone apps to make daily life easier, Shinozuka asserts that more and more dependence on the Internet and less dependence on

We also have cell phones now, so we can look up anything, or say anything on social media. Social media keeps us distracted 99.9% of the time because, if you think about it we are always on Instagram, snapchat, twitter, or even facebook looking at peoples post and sharing our own.

Throughout the “A generation of Slackers” by Ronald Alsop he explains and analyzes today’s current societal issues of being able to focus while the consent distraction of the smartphone. This article completely hit the technology issue on the head in all places that is necessary. The article also pinpoints major issues surrounding the how the smartphone can play a role in avoiding people and procrastination in life.

While Tegu describes his surprise about the power of social media as his ideas on Tweets had such a rapid spread and aroused waves of comments and emotions, Sherry Turtle also introduces the strong power of technology that both changes the way people think of themselves and shapes our ways of being. According to her research, technology shifts us from connection to isolation, and in the future technology may become our only companies that will listen to our words and solve our loneliness. Simultaneously, Roger Kay narrates the increasing power of social media which can change our traditional behavioral patterns and modes of thought in“Multitasking: Good Or Bad?”. He indicates that we are likely to spread attention over different sources

In the same article that supports technology, Richtel states, “Humans can process only a single stream of information at a time.” Americans rarely stay on task when they are on their phone, swayed by the desire to check social media or play a game. Cell phone users oftentimes claim that they can multitask. However, research shows that this is impossible and that those individuals are delusional. In reality, they switch back and forth between their phones and work, causing them to waste time.

Technology and Social Media In the essays, “Technology Taking Over?” by Yzzy Gonzalez, “The Parent Trap” by Clive Thomas and “This Is Not About You” by Andrew Santella, each of the authors write about the impact technology and social networking have on our schedules and the images of ourselves. How technology and social media can be a big part of our life distraction, we put more attention to our cell phones. Half of the time when we are doing homework, talking to our parents or in class all we do is be on our phones, we won’t pay attention to what we supposed to do or not end up listening.

“I am convinced that learning to live with both internal and external distractions is all about teaching the concept of focus.” (Rosen 11) Are we being driven to distraction? This question is posed in Larry Rosen's essay Driven To Distraction; he argues students are distracted by technology. He makes his argument effective through use of logos, tone and rhetorical patterns. However, Rosen's essay is weakened by not addressing opposing arguments and by using a false authority fallacy. He explains how technology greatly distracts students nowadays and then offers techniques we can apply to help increase their focus and encourage them to be less “plugged in”.

Today, you can see multiple people walking down the street with their heads buried in their phones tweeting about an event that just occurred or sending a quick text message to a friend. The technology and social media is just one of the many reasons why our society has a hard time maintaining attention. Mr. Schwartz had many respectable opinions in the article “Attention Lessons: A Need We Must Heed”. Within the article, I found many points of Mr. Schwartz’s argument that I agreed with, yet a couple of points and the solution that was presented I disagreed with. I believe society is driven by social media and a person needs focus to accomplish tasks, however, I disagree that maintaining attention is a skill and that children can be taught

Distraction is a useful and powerful tool that has been used throughout all of history. People have used distraction to cover up scandals, when battles/wars and to hide the truth. For example in today's world one could argue how North Korea distracts the rest of the world by making war threats so people can't focus on their actual problems going on in there country. But imagine if a form of society distracted you from living a healthy natural and real life. In “The Brave new world”

The article “How Smart-phones Hijack Our Minds” by Nicolas Carr is about the destructive use of smart phones. So many people depend on their smart phones that it damages with the outcome of their work. Smart phones also make it harder to focus and remember since everything is now saved on your phone. The destruction with the phones don’t only occur with everyday activities, but it also affects your relationships and can cause distractions. Overall, the use of smart phones has shown negative effects on people’s minds.

The article focuses on the distraction of mobile devices in the college classroom. Brenner explains that they are distracting to not only the person using them, but the people around them as well. Through her research, she found that the people sitting next to multitaskers on their laptops tended to score lower on tests than those without the distraction. On that note, she states that people “are not wired to multi task”. Through a study, she found that texting during lectures caused a decrease in student’s ability to take notes, pay attention, and perform well on tests. She also found that the use of laptops

The computer is a work tool, organizer, a communication tool, and after we has been sitting on the computer for eight hours, most will probably still be able to read messages or private e-mails at home, or book the next trip. Some researchers see this as a change in people's attention span, as the oversupply of shorter texts, videos and graphics are preferred and more complex content is pushed into the background. Without the computer, it is no longer possible, and thanks to the development of more and more recent technology, such as the highly acclaimed smart devices, people and computers remain connected all day

Ok, let me start off by saying that a screen free week sounds like a fantastic idea to me. It will give us more time to do more important things than just typing on an iPad or computer all day. Having the technology we have today isn't always a good thing. This technology can cause us all types of problems like getting distracted or even cause forgetfulness and attention problems. It can even crave us to be multitasking and cause us to get injured.

Is technology a distraction? technology can be a distraction it can be a distraction all the especially if you have a cell phone. We are all distracted by technology all the time. People get distracted from doing other things. however it really depends on who can hanndle having a piece of technology there are people who can be responsible and people who can't. there are a lot of people who can't hanndle having a piece of technology there have been so many car accidents for text driving and why does this all happen because it's the people who are distracting themselves for using a piece of technology. Technology distracts people a lot it only depends on the way you use it and time you use it. Technology can be very useful for important things

Our lives seem to be more and more consumed by technology as great advances in this area have continue to be made, especially when it comes to social media. Many researchers have begun to notice that depending on how much time individuals spend on these social media sites, they can negatively affect their daily lifestyle in very significant ways.  For example, social networking has become a huge distraction for students and it can affect their grades depending on how often they check their various accounts while doing class work.  Researchers have also come to find out that social media can contribute to the development of psychological symptoms