Sam Anderson, Writer of Distractions but is Distracted Himself.

In this article, Sam Anderson begins with a quite potent beginning paragraph telling us to quickly check our electronic items and contacting that last person. While this could be true for many people, it was still quite harsh considering without even knowing the reader, Anderson thought that everyone was addicted and distracted to the internet. It is sadly true for many, but Anderson probably should have referenced here that not all people are like that. Anderson goes on to talk about all of the distractions that modern technology and society is making our mentalities act obese. Anderson also mentions a couple of sources throughout his article, but they are often vague and stretched out to the point where you can not tell where the point of including the source was. Very often does Anderson simply list problems, solutions, or things that was noticed in society and their technological addictions. Sometimes this made the idea hard to grasp and made the main point of the sentence disappear for a tiny portion of the article. Oftentimes people generally are addicted to their technology, however, I personally do not believe that we are doomed. If society took note of how bad this all can potentially be, there would be change. Yet, even after taking notice of these problems, Anderson brings up a good point that we are potentially too far gone. In a way, yes we are, considering all of the aspects of life now that are strictly online with little to no ways of dealing with it in person. Although, with how many studies are being done and talks about addiction problems and attention problems that children alone are facing because of these “technological teddy-bears” as my biology teacher in high school once told me and it will hopefully scare the general public into taking better care of their mental health and stability in order to actually focus on tasks given to them. Overall, Anderson for the most part sticks to an argument that we are all distracted, however, throughout the article Anderson also contradicts the argument and confuses the reader.