I consider myself pretty savvy on what's current in technology. A million years a go when Al Gore invented the Internet, I had Mail! and I naively talked with strangers in chat rooms! Then I joined Facebook as soon as LSU was given access (for those of you that don't know...in the early stages of Facebook, it was only available to university students with a valid college email address). I did MySpace (does this still exist?!! I forgot my password and haven't logged in in years.), and have a Blogger, WordPress, iGoogle, Picasa, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, and Vimeo account. I got the iPhone right when it came out and have tons of apps to go along with my subscription addiction. . Then I got HootSuite to manage my social media applications. I subscribe to Groupon, LivingSocial and a zillion other daily emails offering me some "deal". And I just recently created a new email address to transfer all the daily emails to so that every morning when my eyes are barley open and I reach for the phone on my nightstand I don't have a panic attack when I see 50+ emails in my box!
Is it just me? Is anyone else completely consumed by all of this? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE having access to all the info but I wonder if it's good for me, for everyone. I must admit that I never really feel rested, my mind is always running and I feel less productive because I am constantly interrupted by all of these mediums.
Meanwhile, I stare out my office window or at the summer ocean theme on my iGoogle page and think about how nice it would be to disconnect from it all.
Then my phone chirps at me as I receive a text.
