Thoughts about Matt Richtel's "Attached to Technology and Paying a Price"

I can agree with the message that Richtel is trying to make, about how technology is distracting us from what is important, but as an addiction. Richtel mentions how Eyal Ophir created a test to see how well multitaskers were able to focus. The multitaskers that were chosen did worse than the non-multitaskers chosen. This helps show that multitaskers may be able to do several things at one time, but they do not focus when performing their tasks. Richtel also illustrates the distracting effects of technology by using the Campbell family throughout his report. Mr. Campbell had missed two important emails with major companies to buy his program. Another time he, "signed the company up for the wrong type of business account on Amazon.com, costing $300 a month for six months before he got around to correcting it." Plus he barely spends time with his family because he is distracted by e-mails, video games, and random articles on the Internet. Mr. Campbell's son is becoming like his father. He becomes distracted while doing homework and checks his Facebook and Reddit. This had started to affect his grades and had pulled Cs for the first time. Even though the Campbell's allow their daughter to be on her laptop one hour each day, every time she is on it she blocks everything else out. She cannot take her focus off of her laptop and the Internet. Mrs. Campbell had even been distracted when baking cookies and burnt them; not once, but twice in a row. After finding this out, we can all relate in some way, if it is multitasking, or if we sometimes get distracted by what is on the Internet. The only difference is how deep each person is into this addiction.