via Mashable
I find this infographic posted on Mashable quite amusing and scary at the same time. It’s spot on with what’s current in our society, and I know this HOW? Because it’s what goes on in our VERY home.
First it was me, being all in love with my MacBook, then my Android smartphone (LG Shine Plus from Telus, which I would not recommend anymore to anyone: both the phone and the carrier, but that’s another story for another day), then my iPod Touch, and mon Mari was very accommodating.
And then HE got a spanking new Samsung Galaxy S2 as soon as it was launched in Canada and now I’m on the other end of tech-addicted behavior around our house.
Some of the stats on the infographic are totally reflective of what goes on at our place: sleeping with the phone? check. Checking phone during movie? check. Checking phone during dinner? check
But we do have a toddler who needs his mama’s and papa’s undivided attention so we do make concerted efforts to put our gadgets down, get off our social networks and the internet and focus ONLY on activities with le Petit. I’m pretty good at NOT bringing gadgets to the table during any meal or snack times. It’s learning to integrate the devices into our lives without letting them take over. We are actually having to LEARN and intentionally practice tech etiquette in our personal lives. I think that’s a good thing and something we can then teach le Petit, but it really does say something about our society that we need to develop a new set of behaviors around normalizing our interactions with technology in our private and public lives.
As for going without … for a week? Yes, I have given up shoes, exercise (to my dismay), caffeine, chocolate and alcohol to be with my smartphone and iPod Touch. But I wouldn’t give up the other things.
Tags: gadget
