Overloading of Information.

While I read the article 'Attached to Technology and Paying A Price' by Matt Richtel in the New York Times, I couldn't get away from the feeling that I was reading a tragedy. Reading about Brenda & Kord Campbell and their struggle with a day to day relationship as a family, couple and self all because their lives have become so centered around technology. I have always felt that technology was a good thing because it helps us to gain more information in a faster way. But at these costs and at this amount of technology on a regular day to day basis I really think it is going to be detrimental to your relationships and how you are as a person. I really agreed with the last statement at the end of the article which said "paying attention to each other makes you become more human because it shows how much you care". I just wanted to point that phrase out mostly because I feel that even though the two parents are at almost a no turning back addiction of the technology, their children are just beginning in their footsteps, but at a earlier start and in bigger doses. Their eldest child was already having trouble focusing, and their youngest in second grade, Lily is already hooked to her personal laptop, iPod touch and portable DVD player. I have learned in a child development and even as common sense, that a child is very impressionable, nowadays you even see on commercials that a baby can learn another language before turning two years old. How easily do you think a child could become addicted to technology if that's all they live their life through? I doubt many of them would want to stray away from the enticing digital media that is being spurted out of technology now a days. In the end in my opinion I think that technology is needed and useful in society but people can take it out of its context and have an overload to the point that they don't remember how important human contact is. How it feels to be standing out in a field with the wind at your back as the smell of windflowers fill the air, rather than sitting in front of a computer screen, iPad, or video game imagining you're in that scene. Technology is so new and evolving that you can get pulled in and slowly forget what life should be full of; and for me that's family, friends and the love that you feel for them.