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The Trouble with Connectivity

Posted August 08, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Smartphones, tablets, and even desktop computers increasingly interrupt your daily activities with buzzing, chimes, and vibrations, announcing that you have received an e-mail or text message. Features like "push notification" only make matters worse by displaying alerts on the screen on which you are working. Unfortunately, all this "connectivity" takes a toll on your productivity. Studies indicate that these distractions can reduce your productive time by 40%. Facebook alone accounts for 20% of the time Americans spend on their mobile phones. So why do people accept these interruptions? They are afraid they are going to miss something.

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08/08/2014 4:33 AM

When the phone rings, it's someone else's agenda.

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08/08/2014 8:27 AM

Stephen Fry on QI once describe the phone as being like a very rude person in the room, continually interrupting until you agree to speak to them.

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08/08/2014 5:37 PM

Steven Fry is spot on.

I've always felt that way about phones. There needs to be a Please Wait Your Turn button and, for the really persistent callers (my ex once called 31 times in 12 minutes), a button labeled GTFO.
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08/09/2014 5:17 AM

I hate telecoms with a passion!
When the phone rings at my desk at work I generally just shout F&ck Off at it.
I'm working on becoming more tolerant

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08/11/2014 12:30 PM

I have notifications turned off on my phone. I don't answer unless I recognize the Caller ID. If there is no Caller ID, or I don't have time, I let it go to voice mail. I also turn off the ringer if I don't want to be disturbed. If the caller doesn't care to leave a message, I don't think of them again.

When my daughter was a teenager, she couldn't stand it that I would let a phone ring until I was ready to answer it. ("If you don't answer it on the first ring, they will think you don't care!" "But I don't care.") Now that she has a life, a job, and children, she understands.

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08/11/2014 8:24 PM

I think...hang on a sec, I got a text coming in...
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