I've had my IPhone five months now, and it has been so awesome. Say what you might about our phone-dependent society - but the greatest benefit has been spiritual. I love downloading podcasts and listening to sermons as I go about my day. I love having my worship playlist always with me. I have this thing for Spoken Word - like Amena Brown or cool scripture recitations set to music - I download them off Itunes. My favorite app is my Pinterest App. Email so easily accessible, movies and the kids and I like to play Finger Battle.
On yet another technological matter, I think Pinterest is making me LESS creative, and certainly LESS productive. Pinterest is so amazing, but I don't have to come up with my own creative ideas anymore. And... if I do carve out some time to do something crafty and amazing, I often just sit and get lost in finding more amazing things to do and pin to be done at some unforeseeable point in the future. I am generally only on Pinterest at night when Byron and I are watching a movie or hanging out when the kids are in bed. But, then I realized, I wasn't snuggling with him during that time!
All in all, I think any of our technology use has to be evaluated. Am I wasting my time with this? Is it keeping me from being productive? Let's don't even talk about Facebook shall we? I think we should all keep a little log and record how much time we are accessing some form of media. You'd be shocked. I wonder how much more family time we could come up with? Kids today are suffering from Attention Deficit in more ways than one. Kids need more direct eye-contact from us! ... she said as she typed on the computer. Signing off now - I got a date with the two youngest to go look for blackberries in the woods!
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