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Networking Sites, Emailing, Texting may Prove Injurious to Public Health
Nada Kakabadse, a professor at Northampton University, says that these technologies are leading to anxiety, reduced productivity and a generation of smartphone orphans.
She points out that people these days are increasingly becoming obsessed with information from an ever growing number of sources.
"One third of our sample suffer from technological addiction. They are addicted to their gadgets - phones, BlackBerries, laptops. It is a problem. It has negative consequences on their family life, their health and their social life," Sky News quoted her as saying.
Nada says that "pop-up alerts" often interrupt netizens from their primary task in favour of reading emails, and then direct them to other online links.
She says that people then suddenly feel low energy, become clumsy and have a spatial disorder.
The expert says that even though people become exhausted, they may check other stacked up behind the new one, have a quick look on Facebook, Twitter or something else, and it may be half an hour before we're back to that primary task.
"You can not any more do effectively the task you were originally doing, even if it was routine. You will suddenly feel low energy, you become clumsy and you have a spatial disorder. You become exhausted," Nada said.
In a survey of 4,000 email users that the US firm AOL recently conducted in America, 46 per cent described themselves as being "hooked" on email.
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