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Is Digital distraction a good thing today??

Created by : Dipti Mehta, Project Manager, IBM  | 11 22 2010 11:51:13 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : Web 2.0 +(Technology)
Keywords : internet google facebook social media social networking sites email digital distraction
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This morning, I pulled out my iPad to read today's news paper. After reading a few hundred words, I tweeted about reading it. Then I realized it was something like 4,000 words, so I took a break to go check Twitter. Then Facebook. Then my email. Then I came back to reading — for another 1,000 words or so, before something else popped up. I hopped over there. Then I came back and finished the article.


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This is pretty much the standard way I read things nowadays. It has taken a while to get used to, but now I’m fine with it. And increasingly, like it or not, this is the way the world is going to work.

Is Digital distraction a good thing today??

  
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Yes.... today there is too much of digital distraction and according to me there is no cure for this. If anything, it’s going to get much worse. So we can either just talk how much it is impacting our lives today, and how it’s ruining society. Or we can adapt and change some of the fundamental concepts of what learning is.

That latter idea isn’t going to be easy for some people to swallow. Parents, in particular, even though I’m not a parent. But I’m also not that far removed from being a kid. I didn’t grow up in a world where everyone had a computer in their pocket (smartphones), but I wish I had. But it was already a time when everyone had a computer at their home that was connected to the Internet. Infact I have definitely learned a lot more on the Internet than I ever did in high school
By Dipti Mehta, Project Manager, IBM  11 22 2010 11:51:13 +0000
 
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Digital distraction is surely not a good thing. We have become so much addicted to it that we cant cut ourselves from the digital world for even a short time. We find some long article or something which isn't as interesting and we just switch to other sites..or better said 'social networking sites'.Even I bookmark pages,at times, to read them later on and that 'later on' never comes..:| There's so much in the digital world that it becomes impossible for us to stick to one thing..and has just added to the restlessness of minds.. The only option left is to adapt ourselves to this as u said Dipti...But I must say that the life before this was much better..
By vasu , B.Tech/B.E. student,  11 22 2010 13:19:01 +0000
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it depends on how we utilise resources available in constructive way.
By Phani Mohan krishna, Head/VP/GM- Purchase/Material Mgmt, ANAGHA DATTA TRADE  | 12 16 2010 12:20:14 +0000
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ya it's really true that all are becoming slave to their gadgets .. but it can be controlled by us by suppressing the use of gadgets...
By Janardan Kumhar, IT ENGINEER, IUAC (University Grants Commission, India)  | 12 13 2010 15:34:11 +0000
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Any distraction is manageable by self-control
By Basil Cheriyamadathil, IT Specialist ( System Testing ), Genting Malaysia Berhad  | 12 13 2010 12:23:41 +0000
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It is call of today's life.
By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 11 30 2010 07:56:17 +0000
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Yes it is good. In these busy life’s it is very much required.
By Vidya Sagar, Freelancer, IT Products  | 11 22 2010 17:28:48 +0000
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We are surrounded my digital world and have become habitual to it. Other than information, its has become our interest. However, its good till the time it does not makes us lazy or unfit. We should not look at the world just through window or windows:-), but go out and explore.
By Vinod Rajoria, Recruitment Executive, CompuCom  | 11 22 2010 14:40:21 +0000
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Yes, it's good for us, today we know our world is now in technoworld. And we also doing new thing in our routine life.
By Prashant Adesara, Software Developer, SI  | 11 22 2010 12:57:57 +0000
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yes it's always nice to get technology involve in our daily life more and more , it encourage us to do something new , i won't say i'll make life easier enfact it opens the way for new ideas .
By Rahul Sharma, Sr. Software Developer, Mobile Comm Technology  | 11 22 2010 12:44:39 +0000
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A big 'NO'..At this juncture its a major scare..The digital distraction is overshadowing people,relations,the real talent,ability,performance and even health too..People are expecting themselves to be spoon feeded..gone are the days of reading habits,writing correct english(Not the SMS style),Giving time to beloved ones, practising yogas..
By Ravi Kumar Choudhary, Planning Manager, Encube ethicals Pvt. Ltd.  | 01 20 2011 17:26:01 +0000
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simplyee its not good. when v use digitisation more then required mind stops creativity. The mental ability gets weaker and physically we get lazy day by day... totally it makes the human lazy and week by both ways.
By Iranna , MCA student, karnatakuniversity  | 12 15 2010 11:49:26 +0000
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I do not support this. Too much of digitisation is not good. Gagets should be used as and when necessary and we should not become slave of it.
By anuradha , Education Coordinator, A to Z Technologies  | 12 15 2010 03:51:42 +0000
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It ruins the Peacefulness of the human, both mentally and physically
By sundaresan , Software Developer, Mycura Technologioes  | 12 14 2010 05:01:08 +0000
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No until and unless it is on a good note
By Saradhi Vamsi, Senior HR, Avon technologies  | 11 23 2010 07:16:45 +0000
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