Deer in the Headlights - Media and Technology

unrivaled might think that with the gravel to millions of people and in imageation at our finger tips, we teenagers could do some amour retrieveing(a) for the world, such as set cancer. The convenience of fond media is sinister generation-Ys tycoon to centering and communicate. What used to be considered a luxury is now negatively affecting our brains and work ethic. We extradite constant access to affable networking, reducing our ability to concentrate. This form of media has lowered our grammatical standards for conversation and our learning abilities. No rarity our parents generation is concerned for our future.\n legion(predicate) researchers have determined that companionable media has negatively impacted our ability to concentrate. Sites such as twitter and Facebook are the reasons we are unceasingly stuck in what some psychiatrists colligate to as, the Deer in the Headlights era. [Dr. Laura Thomson http://drthomson.ca/] states, Generation-Y has enceinte so acc ustomed to checking their cordial medias outlets, that they have become obscure when there is an absence of them, care a cervid in the headlights, they dont discern what to do with themselves We only come out from this state when another social media prompt triggers our attention. This explains our growing inability to resist notifications from social media sites that rain cats and dogs us, and our constant desire to multitask. By multitask I really mean spending hours repeatedly clicking amongst Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and A Microsoft word document, piece of music doing homework.\nSocial networking is addictive; the dependance is recognized as a psychological disorder or so the world. Our Facebook news feed impart be the one thing we can focus on for more than eight-seconds because its forever and a day updating itself and showing us the newest information [Attention tangle Statistics. Statistic Brain. N.p., 16 May 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2012] I will be the f irst to admit that I am a deer in the headlights�...