Technological Psychosis??

delilah · #1 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 05:22 AM

The technological monsters like a PDA phone or a laptop with wireless in it..could these things be contributing to make our lives more stressful rather than simplifying or facilitating our lives?

Gemini · #2 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 05:35 AM

oh you mean Technostress

Hell yeaah.

bengaltiger · #3 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:14 AM

it actually depends on what u get...if u get more than u need ull stress urself...like i only use cell phone for talkin and alarms...so if i go n get a blackberry right now...its just waste of money n more stress...but on the other hand if i was some kind of ceo or big shot exec then i wud use most or all of the blackberry functions n it wud actually facilitate my life more

delilah · #4 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:16 AM

well yea...i agree with bengaltiger...but then also dont u think that there shud be a clear and separate definition for work, home, and leisure? I always see people in subway making a technological bubble around them using either sidekick or blackberry or a macbook. do we really need to keep in touch with technology all the time?

Gemini · #5 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:28 AM

I suffer from separation anxiety if am without my cellphone or ipod or whatever gadget I have for more than 10 minutes yet I don't miss my parents or my husband if they're not around waaayy longer than that

Buttttttt....I love them more anyways. Nothing beats real people

bengaltiger · #6 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:35 AM

some ppl start missin coffee or smoke if they dont get it for 10 mins....there r lot of things that u just get used to and miss it wen they r not arnd...why blame technology specifically??

delilah · #7 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:37 AM

no body is blaming technology ...I am just saying that people often forget how important personal communication is. Technology should not make us its slave...technology is for our use...we are not for its use.

Gemini · #8 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:41 AM

Well am sure we're not blaming anything but if we must blame one thing...it should be ourselves because whatever happens we let it happen to ourselves and no one else is responsible

bengaltiger · #9 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 04:56 AM

so then its just stress in general..no such thing as technostress...unless u or on E n in a club that plays techno music

Gemini · #10 (**permalink**) 05-03-2008, 05:05 AM

there IS such a thing called technostress, unfortunately.