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Communication issues are becoming more challenging and they are impacting the quality of our daily life. Numerous issues have come to the surface, and they are not new, however, in my opinion these issues brought to light have the potential of huge benefits or damage to us, just like Lusely said “the new technology can also be dangerous,” and I agree that there are increasingly more things demanding our attention, and the way I see it, there is plenty more to come, and all this keeps our brain engaged in numerous tasks. I have a feeling that we have yet to realize how much we have not thought of in terms of technology helping us to communicate.

Furthermore; our brain has this uncontrollable thirst to keep busy, learning and in some kind of interaction or stimulation. The urge for us to communicate is ingrained in us humans, we are not fans of solitude, and communication between us validate who we are, for example, we always try to convince our friends that we are special, and to some degree better than others, and confiding in our close friends we seek endorsement, this creates a chain reaction that branches out into a million consequences, and technology facilitates the relieve of this compulsion.

Wired for Distraction?  By Dalton Conley, is an interesting read, among other things it say that “when we set our mind to concentrate on something — and reactive attention, when our brain reflexively tunes in to novel stimuli. We obviously need both for survival, whether in the wilds of prehistory or while crossing a street today, but our saturated media universe has perhaps privileged the latter form and is wiring our kids’ brains differently.”  Time magazine. At the end of the day it all depends on the individual, as some may say that multitasking with daily chores and communication devices is no big deal, I’ll say to that: let’s look at the quality of these tasks performed. As the increasing gadgets are here to stay and we just have to get re- acquainted to the meaning of “restrain.”

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