chris98251
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knownone":jxe8cdab said:As someone who's hired a bunch recent college grads over the years, I've noticed a trend that most of them have very poor interpersonal skills and it seems to translate in someways to cellphone usage in the office. It's gotten to the point where we have a strict no cellphone policy during office hours, and by that, I mean you can't even have your cellphone on your person with very few exceptions. We even have cellphone free lunches twice a week.
The thing is, I need my employees and my coworkers to build relationships outside of social media; I need them to communicate with each other without the convenience of looking things up to facilitate an understanding and the level of trust that comes from TALKING to your peers and knowing that no one knows everything, and everyone can learn something from somebody else. That way they'll ask for help instead of trying to google everything.
The internet does not make people smarter. Information is not knowledge it's access to knowledge, and the convenience of having it everywhere you go can hamper your ability to understand concepts because it acts as a buffer memory between your working memory and long-term memory. You need to work through these things and hold them in your mind in order for them to make connections in your brain in such a way that you can apply it abstractly to other situations.
Kids should have limited access to cellphones with the internet. Teams and organizations should not be giving cellphone breaks. I honestly believe they are detrimental too many aspects of our society and we should not be trying to enable this behavior by rewarding or encouraging its use in a job or learning environment.
I agree with this 100 percent, if you don't have keep something filed away and choose to absorb it, and I think this is a subconscious thing as far as information. When you read and have to physically research something you are filing it away in your brain in memory. When you adapt the mentality all I have to do is google you are not filing it away, you are depending on a device to bring it up.
Socially we have been getting slowly broken over the years, the closure of areas of Teenage intermingling, lets say beaches, cruising areas parties etc that past generations used to gather and learn to associate with each other outside of a school where they learned communication, and behavior in a group etc has hurt them as they become adults. They become more reclusive and withdrawn from those that did not have the privilege of a Cell phone all the time.
In fact Schools are starting and have been using computers and Cells now in leu of books due to costs in many districts which I think hampers peoples ability to research and find information as well. Ask someone to find a place in the yellow pages or a encyclopedia, or a manual of some type and they have issues. Table of contents, Whats that?