Digital Nation

After watching Digital Nation, I feel like a lot of my reservations about the use (and maybe abuse) of technology and the digital world are validated. The whole multitasking phenomenon sometimes makes me crazy when my friends are doing it and I have a close family member who very well might meet the criteria for video/computer game addiction (the Asian criteria-the show indicated that the US doesn't yet recognize this addiction). While technology is great in many ways, the constant connectivity seems to make it impossible for many friends of mine to relax and truly unplug from work, even when they are on vacation. I hope that as a society we are able to find ways to truly use the digital world to serve us as people and not as ways to live in our own isolated digital worlds