I’m truly concerned about the space that technology occupies in my life and in the lives of my family. My Pastor even brought up this very subject on Saturday night ~ how we can’t fully spend time with God (or anyone else, for that matter) if we are constantly distracted by Facebook, email, or texts.
I’ll admit that I did fall prey to this several months ago but I can easily go an entire evening without opening up my laptop now. In fact, “Mac” and I are like a couple taking a hiatus while we figure out if we have a committed future together or not. Right now, I prefer to just keep our relationship all business. He’d like something more, I suspect, but the cost is too high.
The NY Times has written an article titled “Hooked on gadgets, and paying a mental price”. Okay, that’s direct enough for me. We’re actually suffering from this need to be connected to the outside world…so much so, that we’re forgetting about people in our living rooms. You know what it is for me? I scan Facebook when I have absolutely nothing else to do.
Did you hear what I just wrote? When I have nothing else to do. Well, that’s just a big lie we tell ourselves. There is ALWAYS something more relevant or important to do than see what everyone is saying in their status update about the cold weather or the fact that it’s Monday or the fact that it’s Friday or whatever.
Ugh. I’m just over it.
I truly don’t want to miss what’s happening around ME anymore to see what’s happening around my friends, instead. Don’t get me wrong; I love that I can check in from time to time and stay connected to so many. I love knowing what’s going on in their lives and seeing pictures and sharing stories. 
But I’m only going to do that for about 30 minutes a day…and count that up. That’s 182 hours a year! 182 hours is my scaled back relationship with Mac…no wonder he’s getting mixed messages from me. I have one foot in this relationship and one foot out!