Attached to Technology and Paying a Price (response)

In the Article by Matt Richtel the complicated question about technology is brought up. Is technology hurting us or helping us? The Article brings up points for both sides of the argument stating that technology causes up to try and multitask when our brains are not constructed to do so. The article talks about how multitasking actually hurts us because it makes it difficult for us to weed out irrelevant information. Like a drug technology has even become an addiction in the lives of many who use it such as Mr. Cambell and his son. However, the article does play fair by mentioning that also technology can help us. Those who play video games can gain better vision, and internet users as a whole have been shown to have a better research ability as well as increase our brain activity.
I think most people that use the internet can agree that it does become a major distraction at times. Just like Mr. Cambell got distracted by a tweet, a lot of internet users get distracted when they are trying to do something important. Especially if its more or less, well, boring, like writing a paper. For example, as I read the article about technology with my five separate tabs open I also continued to hold a chat on Facebook with three different people. Also I took short breaks in between sentences to listen to a new song that one of my favorite artist had just posted a link to on twitter. The distractions caused by technology didn't stop there though. As I read the article and noticed a link to see how good I was at multitasking, I just had to click it. With all the distractions on the internet an article that should have taken 20 minutes to read, took about 50 minutes.
We can't escape the world of technology in my opinion. Its too convenient. Of course it has its flaws, but so do we. While we must hope that people can at least control their need for a technological fix while driving, it doesn't matter how much research, in whatever schools, is done; The times that we live in will be a technological time probably until the end of time. As i sit at the dinner table with my family and my and both my sisters have a fork in one hand and our phones in the other; or as I totally neglect my five page paper I have to do because my twitter app is not working or the trending topic excites me; or even as me and a group of friends sit in one room not saying a word but all communicate through Facebook, I know that no matter what studies are done about the effects of technology, we're hooked!