The article on Addiction and Distraction, written by Tony Schwartz summates how distraction on the internet is practiced as a habit which interrupts daily routines. The author connects this idea and elaborates by describing his experience of how he realized his insane addiction to the internet. He realized his compulsive behaviors towards internet through the close observations on his deteriorating health. The effects on health were quite detrimental as he drank lots of diet soda, and increases consumption of alcohol almost every day and was no longer exercising regularly as he used to before.
Similarly, I also find myself addicted to distraction. Like Tony, I am compelled towards Facebook, which is my primary interface for distraction instead of checking emails. Now, that I recall the effects of distraction, I remember that I snacked too frequently when being distracted. The hunger for some reason just drastically increases at an instant and other time it makes me sick of it. My resolution was very much like Tony’s ambitious plan. I informed my father to shutdown Wi-Fi after bedtime. This plan showed positive results, my chronic procrastination reduced by a great amount and I was more focused and my irregular cravings for food had stopped. This issue is not only relatable to the author and me, rather to every being who utilizes internet as a part of their daily routines. The distraction nature of the internet is definitely a problem because many internet users have not yet realized of how major this problem is and can become. Others who know that this problem exists cannot map out a way from this problem. The rest who are like me and Tony still remain the victims of distraction of internet; though know how to manage time and internet wisely so that it would not interrupt our lives with a negative impact. As mentioned in the article, Tony references a survey in which it states of how millennials check emails outside of work more than during work hours. This evidently proves how distraction caused by internet (in this case with emails) is accumulating as a major concern. Distraction to the internet is so widespread that it’s hard to control. It causes build-up of pressure because distraction causes one to fall behind in schedule which pressurizes them to work harder to get the task done on time. This pressure can cause the change in eating habits which directly impacts on their heath and cause more issues of not taken care of them. Distraction on the internet can also cause the unnecessary shopping which results in less wealth. There are so many more issues; the ones listed just scrap the surface of the problem. If I tried to disconnect myself from the internet, I wouldn’t be able to function appropriately because I’d feel as I am lacking the information which I need to harness it from the internet. I believe that the point of vacation is to enjoy it in every aspect as one would wish. Personally, I would hate to have myself disconnected from the internet. Otherwise, it would kill the purpose of vacation. I want to enjoy moments in my vacation and be in touch with the world (in terms of information and with long-distance relatives). As a result, I would not eat properly because I would feel that I am incomplete (missing out on the information that I should know) if I were disconnected from the internet. Hence, in a way I would go insanely crazy without internet on a vacation. Schools should address this issue because as mentioned above, many individuals are unaware of the existence of this issue. More importantly, it should be addressed to students in the school because majority of them struggle to create an effective plan on how to evade distraction from the internet. They suffer the consequences such as stress form the pressure created from the distraction on internet and seek opportunities to reduce the impacts. They should be educated on this topic so that they can know how to improve their current results with few simple, personal steps.
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