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I love multi-tasking.
I do think I depend on it, survive on it, and can't remember the time when I lived without it.
But I'm starting to think people are taking it too seriously.
It's as though they are pushing the boundaries of their attention span, to see how many windows they can open on the desktop, how many gadgets they can use at one time, how little time they can spend doing everything and anything.
But to what end?
People are multi-tasking to get more things done, presumely to get some free time which from what I see, somehow only translates to more multi-tasking.
Where does the line get drawn?
If multi-tasking is simply to get things done quickly so that we can do more things, then the question arises of why then do we need to do so many things?
I admit I am guilty. I try too often to do too many things and never truly getting the satisfaction I believe would come if I were to do less, multi-task less and pay more attention and spend more time on what I AM doing.
I kind of made a revelation over these few weeks of catching up with friends.
My line for multi-tasking get drawn when direct contact with people are involved. And I enjoy catching up most with people who too draw this line while those with people whose lines are blurred, put gently, irritate me.
I do like multi-tasking, but I hate being multi-tasked (and most likely, many feel the same).
Sure, you can update your Facebook status, check your emails, read news , watch a video and play a game all at the same time and none of these programmes are going to feel hurt your attention is split into 10,000 directions at any one time.
But try to mutli-task your friend by talking to 10 at one go, each engaged in a different conversation and chances are, someone is going to be pissed because you're not listening.
An exaggeration, but not far from the truth.
Can you remember the last time you had a meal or a lengthy conversation with somone without a handphone being whipped out in the process?
It's like noone can even be bothered to pause for a second to think of a conversation topic anymore. If noone says anything interesting, then we can all pull out our gadgets to fill in the silence. I mean, who need real friends when you have virtual ones?
It's like having one conversation isn't impressive enough and we have to multi-task with more conversations to better use our time.
But perhaps the reason why our conversations have awkward lulls and unexciting topics is simply due to fact that the other party or both parties are multi-tasking?
I do actually stop trying to continue a conversation with someone who continuously reply smses and return the favour by starting to sms as well. If you can't be bothered, neither can I.
Shocking as it may be, picking up a non emergency call during a conversation with someone is actually considered rude.
But I find phone calls alright, but sending smses (and whatever it is that people do on their phone nowadays) simply cross the line.
If something is truly important, the person will call and not send an sms, and therefore, you need not reply immediately.
If your facebook and twitter feeds are more important than me, I would rather not waste both our time catching up and just stick to virtual updates.
It is bad enough that communication tools such as sms and msn already require minimal attention from the people involved.
But isn't there something wrong if physically being with somone is not even going to be able to warrant their undivided attention?
And this post probably runs the risk of me coming across as a self-absorbed bitch who craves for attention.
But the truth is, I treasure the time I am spending with the people around me (most of them anyway =P), and I wish they feel the same.
