Clifford Nass is a professor of communications at Stanford University and a renowned authority on Human Computer Interaction.

I was quite alarmed by a radio interview with him on CBC Spark.

Are you wondering why you can‘t seem to get the important things in your life done?

… “Chronic multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy. Everything distracts them. They can’t ignore things, can’t remember as well, and have weaker self-control,” writes Stanford University communications professor Clifford Nass in a report that’s not well received in nearby Silicon Valley where buildings are full of computer experts who get lost in cyberspace. …

Technology pushing new multitasking apps, while experts say it’s too much

I consider myself a fair average multi-tasker. One of the few people who doesn’t seem to have some sort of ADD.

… But social networking has gone too far for me.

How are kids handling the new reality?

Young people, readers of Discovery Girls Magazine, are online 6.9hrs / day.

Yet they report feeling ‘better’ when face-to-face with friends, rather than on Facebook or texting them.

Here’s a good article on the topic – Multitasking and the Brain: The War on Productivity

THAT”S IT. As Oprah commands … No mobile phone for me.

I don’t trust myself to manage that distraction.

If you MUST have a mobile phone, schedule OFF time.