{"id":2004,"date":"2014-02-23T19:13:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2014-02-23T19:13:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:13:14","slug":"our-love-hate-relationship-with-our-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2014\/02\/23\/our-love-hate-relationship-with-our-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Our love\/ hate relationship with our mobile devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/happiness-is-a-warm-iphone.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0\">New York Times article<\/a> in the &#8220;Sunday Review&#8221; section explained the conflicting feelings many of us have about our iphone or other mobile devices.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the one hand, some of us constantly check our mobile devices with great hope or expectation&#8211; perhaps the important work message I have been waiting for all week has arrived, or, even better, perhaps this time when I check my messages there will be some sort of life-altering communication!\u00a0 (Just like when you go to collect your snail mail and think that perhaps this is the day that you will find some unexpected gift&#8211;\u00a0 a large check made out to you?!).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, then there are the times when we just feel overwhelmed by our email in-boxes, and we feel compelled to go through our messages on our iphones to re-gain control. \u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes we need to delete the inundation of messages that are not relevant anymore\u00a0 so that we have enough time to devote to the important messages that are left. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/02\/photo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2005\" alt=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/02\/photo-168x300.png\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/02\/photo-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/02\/photo.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a>And with a mobile device that we carry around with us, it is even harder to escape this tension.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/happiness-is-a-warm-iphone.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0\">NYT article<\/a> discusses the broader context of actually falling in love with technology, as referenced in Spike Jonze&#8217;s recent film, &#8220;Her.&#8221; 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