I watched the Frontline documentary "Digital Nation" last night. If you spend a lot of time online, you should watch it.
I think I spend way too much time online. I noticed it yesterday when I couldn't make a decision on what I should do next: Check email? Check news portals for another post? Clean the house? Work in the yard? Paint? Read? Take a nap? Go online? Oh wait, I was online.
Too much information. Information overload. Reading stuff. Writing stuff. Writing opinions or news other people have already written. Re-writing things I already wrote. Desperately trying to be funny by making fun of someone I disagree with, in order to get affirmation or praise for my: a) humor b) orthodoxy c) stats d) all of the above c) none of the above.
How can you believe when you accept praise from one another? [John 5:44]
How true...
ReplyDeleteHoly carp - you didn't tell me it was an hour and a half long. Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
ReplyDeleteThe first half hour of Digital Nation was the best.
DeleteOkay - you can watch the segments you want to see. So right now I'm listening to the second segment about the brain (which, I might add, I know all about since Harold and I have studied brain development extensively.) And what am I doing? Listening while leaving you a comment.
ReplyDeleteI need an intervention...
haha! Say hello to Harold.
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