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There are other things I should be doing. There are so many more productive tasks to be done. I could use some improvement in all aspects of my life. But instead I sit in front my glowing blue-white screen and listen to the quiet clicks of my keyboard with satisfaction. And disgust. I need to do some work. I need to do homework, study, read, exercise, clean, get a job, be social.. the list goes on. I have small tasks to accomplish and larger ones looming. So many things to do, but no focus and no motivation. I can't even motivate myself to read up on how to improve my motivation, much less how to better focus and not multitask so much. Skimming over those, I can see that their procedures include tasks I'm simply not motivated to do.

I really should be studying. I'm a college student. I like to think I'm smart, but I'm so distracted. Instead of school work, I sit here to write in my brand new blog. And there's more to distract me. There are facebook profiles to stalk, tech news and blog posts to read, music to discover, computers to troubleshoot, galaxies to classify, zombies to be killed… I just received an IM, and I'm waiting for a text message or two. It never ends.

Not only am I addicted to the internet, but I'm trying to overcome my gaming addiction as well. Both are serious problems, and they are starting to get a lot of attention from doctors and psychologists. I'm not quite that bad.. I don't think. But how would you know? Having a constant connection in some way is so commonplace. The border between normal and disorderly is not clear enough yet.

Generation Y has been raised in an environment that encourages multitasking. We're finding out that this is having good an bad repercussions. One thing is for sure: technology is not going to become any less intrusive any time soon. The solution lies in channeling attention and making efficient use of technology instead of letting it distract us. How do we do that? Nobody knows for sure yet. We are the first to encounter this sort of problem, so we must be the first to fix it.

I'll get around to it eventually.

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