Screenshot from Week 1

I’ve never been good at doing my work without any distractions. I almost always have something else going on while I’m trying to study, do assignments, etc. However, having online classes has taught me how to keep the distractions to a minimum, because I’ve had to deal with the challenge of always being able to go to Myspace, Facebook, emails, and other websites. I tell myself that I can still listen to music as long as it’s quiet enough that I can still think and focus on what I’m doing. In this screenshot, I had just finished setting up my blog and as you can see I gave in to the temptation of Myspace. Perhaps if I had been doing a more difficult or thought-provoking assignment, you wouldn’t see the Myspace tab there. I think of Kelley’s “The Next 5,000 Days of the Web.” Technology has come a long way in just the past 5,000 days and some people think that it’s been for the better. They think it frees more time for us to do more things. I can see why they think that, but I disagree. The web and other technologies such as television and video games actually occupy our time more than ever before, leaving us with less. Some think that since we can download forms and order clothes on the internet that it saves us the time it takes to go to the store or an office to speak with someone in person. The problem these conveniences pose is that we think we have more time in the day to do more things, and we overwhelm ourselves. Life was simple before the internet, but now there’s so much more at our fingertips and so much more to do and people want to do it all.