Summary Of Driven To Distraction

This article “driven to distractions”, talks about how society is becoming more and more depends on technology, that the thought of literature passes through their minds with ease. It's easy even for me to get distracted and lose focus on what's important; but the problem that comes to mind is the fact that society lets us get away with this problem and chooses to ignore it.
I remember my brother once telling me that everyone has some condition of ADHD big or small,that is why people can't stare into someone's eyes more than 10 seconds without looking anywhere else, And told me that the reason being is because of the amount of technology that people use in their daily life. Whether that is true or not it really seems that this is what technology

is doing, it is taking the pleasure of having a simple conversation without looking a peek at a piece of metal that just has small lights that form a picture. Rosen perfectly depicts this by telling the reader an experiment that tested the severity of technology can do to regular student “if the student checked facebook just once during the 15-minute question had a lower grade point average . It didn't matter how many times they looked at facebook, once was enough.” If your gpa is on the line because of one look at your phone is it really worth it? Even with the knowledge of what technology can do to ones life people still turn to it and crave it more.
Growing up in a community where communication was a normal thing and frequent one on one chats were something to look forward to;it's sad to see younger generations get deeper and deeper into this trap that technology has secretly set up for them. So what is a solution? One solution that Larry Rosen (the author of this article) advised was to have “technology breaks” every 15 minutes. Its is great to see teachers give a break to students from time to time but allowing students to give temptations does not seem like a bright idea. If one look at facebook can ruin the overall gpa, I do not think allowing students to have this 15 minute break is a smart idea.
Instead ,the solution that I had in mind was to teach students the benefits of having no technology at all. I learned this from church that talking and going out is much more entertaining and resourceful then being at home and watching netflix.