Once You Go Black You Never Go Back

It's a little funny to think that just a year ago all my phone did was send and receive text messages and make calls.  Now I get emails, handle my banking, tweet, upload a pictures to Facebook, and even edit Word documents.  A year ago I would have probably felt lost with out my phone for a day, having no ability to text or call (because a landline would be useless since I know practically no numbers from memory).  But NOW... I would feel lost if I was forced to regress back to using my old LG Voyager!  Just take a second and think about your own connectivity... Can you remember what you wasted hours doing before you had Facebook?  Did you randomly announce your thoughts and actions out loud before you created that Twitter account?

When I take a step back and look at my increased connectivity and dependence on technology, I find that it has become just as much a caveat as it is useful to me.  My Blackberry is such a utility to me in the way that I can look up the weather, directions, find out what time the movie I want to see is showing and buy the tickets at the same time, and so much more.  But I'm not sure if my Blackberry and technology in general has made me more efficient or just plain lazier?

Some of the positives:
1. Better organization (hypothetically if I actually use my calendar)
2. More time on my hands to be productive (this might go under negatives too)
3. The ability to look up just about anything
4. Entertainment/media with a professional look
5. (insert your answer here)

Some of the negatives:
1. Often an interruption/ distraction (slowing the process of writing this blog)
2. More time on my hands to be lazy
3. Dependence for simple things like remembering a phone number
4. Becoming less social (being on your phone when you are around others, texting instead of calling, etc.)
5. (insert your answer here)

So.. I guess it comes down to which of these positives and negative is weighted the most on your own personal scales.  But at the end of the day it doesn't really matter if technology and connectivity is more positive or negative because both will increase for the rest of our lives.  I feel like it is important sometime to take a step back and look at what you have come from and where you are now, see what has changed , why it has changed, and simply look at the ultimate affects of those changes.

Thats just me though...


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