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n fact, there's not much that adults today don't experience through a digital lens. And while the benefits of technology are many-increased information, social connectivity and even communities and tools for spiritual growth, to name a few-the hyperlinked life also opens up new challenges. Because the relationship to personal devices is so strong, it naturally affects personal relationships-for better and for worse. Social media, of course, lives up to its name. As Barna data show, more than one-third of adults (36%) stop whatever they're doing to check their device when they get a new text or message. About the same number (35%) admit their personal electronics sometimes separates them from other people.

n fact, there's not much that adults today don't experience through a digital lens. And while the benefits of technology are many-increased information, social connectivity and even communities and tools for spiritual growth, to name a few-the hyperlinked life also opens up new challenges. Because the relationship to personal devices is so strong, it naturally affects personal relationships-for better and for worse. Social media, of course, lives up to its name. As Barna data show, more than one-third of adults (36%) stop whatever they're doing to check their device when they get a new text or message. About the same number (35%) admit their personal electronics sometimes separates them from other people.