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Is Gadget Addiction Ruining Your Life?
by Maya Wainhaus, January 23, 2008
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Gadget addiction affects everyone: even kittiesGadget addiction affects everyone: even kittiesIt’s easy to romanticize the days of typewriters and rotary phones, but if given the choice, how many of us would really give up our cell phones and laptops in exchange for the low-tech solutions of yore? 

Our increasing dependence on these tools has led the Times to publish a list of the warning signs of gadget addiction. Would you rather text than talk face-to-face? Has the Internet become a more powerful draw than spending time with family or friends? If so, you could be a gadget junkie.



Maya Wainhaus is a writer, painter, Yankees fan and movie-musical enthusiast living in Brooklyn. She also writes a blog about tetris called Girls Play Tetris.


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Marc Hessel

01/24/08 6:02 am
Comments: 49
Friends: 6

Help!

Ok, I am guilty as charged on this one. I have to say I've come a long way from the days of a Day Planner to my Palm T/X that I currently own. It is my opinion that Apple infuses this 'gadget' addiction even more, I need not say more because there is almost close to 10 items of Apple beginning with the letter 'i,' I think this speaks for itself in regards to this topic. With iTunes you are able to synchronize your iPhone, or iPod, even though the smart new iPhone even comes with a mp3 player built-in. Even more so why would I need my iPod, that I currently own when on my PDA there is a media player function as well. I am a gadget junkie through and through, and being an Electronics Engineering professional does not help the least bit. Any suggestions or prescription to help me be more simple Maya!? Great topic, so suiting especially in our society/culture now days.

-M



Maya Wainhaus

01/24/08 12:05 pm
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Friends: 11

Gadget rehab?

Maybe you should be like Thoreau and take a vacation to a remote spot without cell phone service. Or, if you’re feeling more traditional, there’s always the Jewish solution
– use Shabbat as a weekly reprieve from the gadget-filled excesses of daily life. Personally, I’m trying to get into the habit of turning off my computer, cell phone and TV for the hour before I go to bed.



Marc Hessel

01/25/08 7:18 am
Comments: 49
Friends: 6

Gadget rehab it is..

Thanks for all the insightful information/links. Though very humorous I think I might have to settle for a remote spot to vacation someday, I was thinking maybe fly fishing or hiking some random isolated mountain, who knows, as long as there is no wifi I'll be good to go. Traditionally if we were to observe Shabbos to the fullest we would have everything electronic off, however there are some arguments to this Rabbinical, and loosely siphoned Talmudic notion. But it seems you have a plan, thats a start, I think TV moreover is the root of all addiction, or the feeling that we must 'need these things.' I must admit your Sam Fisher cat is the first I have seen, however some of my hippie, tripped-out friends would claim otherwise. Thank you for a simple, and relative article to daily life.

Kindest regards,
-M