How to be Tech Savvy
These days, everyone is a brand. Websites, social media apps, and podcasts sandwich valuable information between external gratification, “likes,” suggestive imagery, and sensational catch-phrases. Social media has us networking more than ever yet reduces real-time human connection. Feelings of inadequacy arise while we compare our bumbling lives to carefully curated, filtered, and perfected images and media accounts. All the while, the ease of a click, swipe, or scroll is a constantly dangling distraction. Not surprisingly, a recent study in young adults showed a correlation between increasing cell phone use and decreasing grades. While previous generations used to grasp for information, our challenge today is to sift through it.