DISQUS

Drape's Takes: Time Suck

  • Chad Lehman · 8 months ago
    I know exactly what you mean. There have been too many nights when I was on Facebook or Twitter when I should have been sleeping or doing something else. Rarely can I visit these tools for only a few minutes. Usually, I start and the next thing I know, it's an hour later.
  • Darren Draper · 8 months ago
    I hear you, Chris. These tools are very useful, engaging, and
    ultimately essential to learning in the current landscape.

    Therefore, it's not that they're inherently and always "bad".

    However, how "good" would a hammer be if we were to focus hours upon
    end, daily, even to the point of longing for it when separated from it
    for a mere 24 hours? In my opinion, this kind of infatuation is
    definitely not healthy, but is assuredly shared by youth and adult
    alike in this, our modern world.
  • Kim Caise · 8 months ago
    Hi Darren! I co-host Classroom 2.0 LIVE! with Peggy George and Lorna Costantini each Saturday in Elluminate at 11am central/12pm eastern. We would like to invite you to join us on May 2 to talk about 'Inbox Zero' and managing social networks. Could you email so I can send you more details? Thanks!

    Kim Caise
    Classroom 2.0 LIVE!
  • Tim Wicks · 8 months ago
    Yes Darren, it has crept up on me. I only realised this week that I was checking twitter, writing in blogs, updating my status in facebook and installing another plugin on my own blog, instead of tending to the long list of things I had been 'meaning to get to'.

    Still, I am an adult and I choose my behaviours.
  • Darren Draper · 8 months ago
    Exactly. And are you sure you want to live with the consequences of
    these actions (I'm guilty, too, you know)?

    In this vein, what consequences do you foresee?