Digital Distraction Explorer Gifts

"Can I call you back? I'm shopping."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'My name's Google and I'm being inundated with requests for information about every damn thing imaginable, by people I don't even know...It's endless!'

'3 Second Loading Zone.'

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

Girl with smart phone enters door that says "Social Media Studies"

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

Likes: $2.

'I can't wait 'til hunting is googling and gathering is calling out for delivery.'

"I don't know what else we can do. He won't look up from the screen!"

Screen Time vs Book Time

Breaking News: Earth Crosses Multiple Lanes, Crashes into Sun... Distracted Orbiting to Blame.

"Waiter, can you heat this up? The wild salmon got cold while I was posting it to Instagram."

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

"But how do I accomplish that in 140 characters or less?"

"Pokemon...Pokemon...Pokemon...."

'There's no art to the mind's construction on Facebook, Macbeth.'

Real Life/Surreal Life

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

'Hey...remember T.V.?

'I bought him to retrieve my e-mails.'

"I find it so stimulating to learn new software."

Computer games

'This computer has a fast modem, the latest Pentium, increased RAM, a huge hard drive and broadband connections. Only one problem...slow pointer fingers.'

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

'An encyclopedia? I don't know. Let's look up what it is on Wikipedia.'

"I had an Android, then I switched to an iPhone. Then I went back to an Android, then I switched back to the iPhone. . ."

"Yes, you were born into the era of passwords and user-names. . . why do you ask, Mycat_2014?"

'After researching our dream vacation online with reviews, commentaries, we cams and pictures, we felt we'd been there and didn't need the trip!'

Downloads.

"Baldo, why don't you turn that computer off and do something else?"