Digital insanity. Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his...

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Digital insanity

Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his cell phone?

Ironic how these touch-screens can make us lose touch.

Ignore real relationships

A world filled with iMac’s, iPads and iPhones

So many “i”s, so many selfies, not enough “us” s and “we”s.

Technology has made us more selfish and separate than ever

the social network claims to connect us connection has gotten no better

re-classify Facebookanti-social network

Big friend lists = friend lessFriendships are broken Our self-worth is measured by no. of followers and likes

ADD (attention deficit disorder ) rises faster than 4G LTEAttention span for average adult is 8 secondsgold fish (9 seconds)

people now generally lose concentration after eight seconds (Microsoft corp.)

Effect of increasingly digitalized lifestyle on the brain

Chats have been reduced to snaps (Likes)Can we have cnvrstn without abbrvtn?

omg, srs, smhoh my God, serious, shake my headYou do have a choice: auto-correct Take control or be controlledMake decisionDon’t spoil a precious moment by recording it with a phoneI don’t want to take a picture of all my mealsLeave this vanity and return to humanity