While reading Alexandra Samuels ‘Plug In Better: A Manifesto’ I realized how her view on distraction is different from Andersons. Though Anderson goes off on some tangents here and there talking about Adderall use and becoming less creative, he says that technology is the one that is distracting us, and we get too distracted all the time and we should go outside more and use our phones less. Whereas Samuel says “So unplug from your distraction by giving that on-screen item your full attention: turn off your phone, shut your door, close all the windows and apps that are competing for your attention in the background” (Samuel 2). She is talking about the people that work online, or have more than one screen on at a time, to shut everything except one off and focus for a moment. Samuel isn’t saying get off technolgy, stop using it its the reason your getting distracted, she had accepted the fact that is needed and used and that there is no way around it. Samuel also came across FOMO, or the fear of missing out. Samuel talks about how, you have probably always missed out on something, but nowadays you know it more because of the constant reminders from social media. Twenge never says anything about FOMO but hints to it a couple of times by mentioning dating, and not getting a job, and how kids just hang out together, and then just sit on their phones.
