January 15th, 2004

here is an arti­cle about the newest trends in human behav­ior: half heart­edly talk­ing on the phone while chat­ting online, walk­ing down the side­walk talk­ing on your cell phone … basi­cally being phys­i­cally some­where, but your mind is else­where. a good read.

the author says it best, when they say:

Just as feast­ing on an abun­dance of rich, avail­able food can make you over­weight, so we seem gorged on too much easily accessed infor­ma­tion. We need a kind of infor­ma­tion diet.

i think we’re all guilty of this type of infor­ma­tion over­load (myself included) way too much in this day and age. when i’m bored, the first thing i do is plop down in my chair and start surf­ing. we always have to be con­nected, always occu­pied. i know that i per­son­ally have to get away from this type of ‘lifestyle’ and start get­ting out­side more.

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