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I was on Ayeshah's blog where she posted the following video: A Vision of Students Today It is indeed something to think about. Too Much Information As the video tells us, we 'browse' through so much information, it is almost impossible to keep up.

I think its true that there is too much information on the internet for us to keep up so we end up spending more and more time on the internet. This relates to my topic since my topic is about how technology can be bad for us and some of the problems it causes.

lists several examples of Jobs created by up and coming tech.

This article talks about how technology will not plateau and only speed up

This younger generation of teens is the first to grow up with all of this technology, and how badly they are addicted to it.

How in classes in which students use Twitter interactively with the class tend to end up doing better

I think this article shows us how generalized the word "friend" has become

This article is basically saying that relationships are being affected by technology. It brings up the point that if we have 1000 friends on Facebook how many of those friends are we actually keeping in contact with. Another point is that the more time we spend on social networking sites the less time we spend socializing face-to-face.

Sometimes Social networking makes it hard for us to understand who our real friends are. I think most of us are past having an exponential amount of friends but we certainly are obsessed with how we project ourselves on the internet. It's hard for us to maintain relationships or meet people online without questioning the realness of it.

This article describes how much we use technology everyday of our lives. We check our phone when we wake up and beckon to our electronic devices whenever we hear it go off, interupting anything we are doing. We can be reached anywhere, at anytime by anyone.

Technology is becoming like a drug to us. We need to be constantly checking it or we feel that we will fall behind in the social world.

This atricle talk about internet addiction. This is a really good source for someone whose research is about cell phones being a art of our bodies.

This is a good article. It talks about how we are always on the internet. Is it a drug? This article seems to thing that we are getting too much technology and it is changing the way we act.

I can relate a lot of this article to myself, and my other friends that use technology as often as I do. I think because of technology, our daily lifestyle has been sped up dramatically.

I liked this article because it talks about how we wish for things to be as fast as the internet. As we begin to get addicted to the internet, we get addicted to the speed and its altering our brains.

In this article they explain and give examples of high skilled jobs that have become replaced due to the up and coming technology