Distraction is something that takes you attention from what you are doing. Distractions can be interesting, amusing, relaxing – yeah definitely anyone would love that. But distractions are irritating when you don’t want your attention to be diverted. Just like passive smoking, sometimes a person addicted to electronic gadgets not only is distracted by own self but also wastes valuable time he is expected to spend with others (kids on video games, men hooked onto laptops, women chatting away on their mobiles are classic examples of the above – lot of passive damage involved).
Some of us know about technology distraction and some of us really are not aware of the same. I wanted to write about technology distraction in this blog after a few instances which forced me to blog about this. Sometime back the status message of my "Anni" got my attention, her facebook status message read like this "Bryan (her son) said to his DAD (my bro) you are like Scrat (Ice age - needs no introduction) and his NUT - Pappa and Laptop." Most of the dads are hooked onto the laptops, me too, but my daughter is a toddler and just tries to distract me and grab attention and does not say statements like my nephew. You may think I am cruising off topic, it is not. I am keying here about technology as a distraction for quality family time. Many years back laptops were not quite common but still everyone were doing their job. When people came back home they spent valuable time with the family. Nowadays with wi-fi enabled homes and laptops becoming cheap everyday, most of the homes have a laptop. To be honest, people who use laptop at home should ask themselves a question first. Is it really needed to use the laptop now? I think most of them would say yes, but in reality it is not true. Some people like to take home work (I am talking about people who spend time chatting in office versus people who like to work more, more, more, more even if they are assigned regular work). The technology distraction in the family does not stop alone with the grown men alone. Kids on the other hand are hooked onto gaming consoles or PC games. Social media has made stay-at-home moms busy and they either tweet, scrap, post on the wall, or share photos, videos, among friends. To make everything worse social media is available in most of the phones to bring in more distraction. Okay let me stop talking about home.
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In office many people like to show off their fancy ringtones, it is good if you like that particular ringtone, but think if you are in middle of a very important job or a business and you hear Black Eyed Peas "My Humps" on the next desk, to add more flavor to it MORE LOUD. Not to mention the SMS we receive on our own phones (we have to check on it because it might be an important one from the spouse or family). The same applies to the marketing calls also. Even if it is in the vibration mode, it makes us to turn our heads to the phone and then realize that it is not the call for you. I remember reading somewhere that it takes you 10 minutes to regain concentration if you are distracted.
I think I have keyed in enough for the day, would like to key in more regarding the same in the future. To all GPS users, I have a question for you all, how you guys are able to concentrate on the road and also look at GPS (don't say you listen to the voice commands because I have seen people using GPS and having their car stereo on). I would like to know how you could multitask the stereo, the GPS, the traffic, and in India (shift manual gears).
