Multitasking

     In the article "Media Multitasking is really Multi-Distracting" from Boston College they talk about how being on your computer, television, phone, radio, and other technology at the same time can be distracting. they placed some people in a room containing a television and a computer and was given a half hour to use either device. The people on average switched their eyes back and forth between the television and the computer about 120 times in that half an hour. Some of the people thought they were looking at the computer during certain times but really they were watching the television and some thought the other way around, they thought they were looking at the television but really they were looking at the computer. The length of gaze lasted less than two seconds for television and less than six seconds for the computer. No one looked at either screen for more than a minute.

     In the article "Social Media Multitasking May Damage Attention Span" by Doug Caverly talks about how checking social media and email to regularly can hurt adults ability to concentrate. Adam Gazzaley, the senior author of the new study, added, “The impact of distractions and interruptions reveals the fragility of working memory.  This is an important fact to consider, given that we increasingly live in a more demanding, high-interference environment, with a dramatic increase in the accessibility and variety of electronic media and the devices that deliver them, many of which are portable.” he also says that depending on what type of attention span a person wants they should probably cut back on the social media, smartphones, ipads, and other technology.

     When I went to college before I would have the television on while I was doing my homework. I had a single room and I liked the noise of the television while I was working. Sometimes I had music playing while I was doing homework or studying. I still do the same thing today when I'm alone at home cleaning or doing work around the house.