Journal Entry #7 -Digital Dummies?

   
 

     Some things I learnt were that there are currently 35 million Blackberry users, 1 billion people own PCs, and $ billion own cell phones.Also i learnt that stress shrinks the brain, and when you text you get stressed. A lot of people are addicted to their phones and there are a lot of sites and books for addictions to these thinks.People think they can multitask but really you cant your just doing many things out of time at a fast speed.People also think that if you want to be included you have to have the latest smart phone.Some observations I made are that people are addicted to their phones and obsessed with technology but it has only been around since the 1980's also that music has shortened our attention span they call it "music ADD". 55% of high school students spend less than 1 hour weekly studying and reading for class, thats more than half!