First post.

I recently watched a documentary about students my age and younger who are distracted by everything. I didn't fully believe it until I watched the video. We are. We're on our computers: sending e-mails, gchatting, creeping on facebook, and typing a paper. Then we're talking to our roommates, texting and bbming, working on a finance midterm review, and have music in the background (hence, the title being Ventura Highway).

We want to be proactive, multi-taskers who get everything done quickly and EFFICIENTLY! That's the trick though. According to the documentary, we're unable to accomplish our tasks efficiently with all of these outside distractions. It makes sense... yet we're unable to accept that we need to slow down and take things step by step as opposed to 5 steps at once.

The scariest and most revealing part of the video for me was the section that described the human brain after being so distracted... we lose strength in our memory, our thoughts are fuzzy, and we are ultimately worse off than if we didn't try to be so "efficient."

This is the PBS/Frontline documentary - very informative and a little shocking.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist