Constant Annoyance

For my blogs I want to take a look at how we are constantly in contact with one another. As time goes on it seems like we get more and more impatient on how fast we need to accumulate information from each other. Think to maybe 10 years ago. A lot of people were starting to get cell phones that could only make phone calls and, some families were equipped with a desktop computer at home with dial-up internet. At the time this was considered so amazing we could be in contact with someone so quickly. Now we have Smartphones that are linked to Facebook and can send text messages that get an almost immediate response from people. If we went back in time to ten years ago so many people would probably be depressed at how little communication they can have at all times. We wouldn't be able to watch movies on demand. God forbid we have to get off of our butts and put a DVD in a tray to watch a movie. We would rather just flip out TV over to Netflix and watch a show without getting up. Same way with talking to someone. We would probably lose our minds now if we had to actually call someone to communicate with them on our cell PHONE. Phones are no longer used for physical conversations. Instead we get information overload from constant text messages, emails, twitter updates, facebook posts, news alerts, etc. We get so much information from a tiny screen that we carry around in our pockets that we can hardly see the physical world around us. In this clip from Robin Williams' stand up he gives great insight on how having so much constant contact and technology overload affects us. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52GrSUjVLg)