Life in the "digital now"

I agree pretty much in all that Abha Dawesar says in her TED talk. It was quite an interesting subject that she developed and it made me think of the considerable time that I spend using technology. Actually I am surprised that I am not such a big fan of 24 hour connectivity as a computer science person should be(?). In fact, it rather stresses me to keep track of all the messages and feeds from Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, mails, etc, etc. I see every day how my friends and family (including my mother lately) have these digital meetings in WhatsApp or Facebook and then they consider unnecessary to get together to talk because they have already exchanged news. Also, some people goes online and makes public all that is in their minds or everything they are doing, almost minute by minute. I do not like it.

It would be better if people used these applications as a way of making an appointment instead of actually realizing the appointment online. Being wired all the time is not healthy, we are living in a digital now which takes the moments of our present lives from us. We are more concerned about our digital life than the real life and we cannot even cope with all the information that our eyes see on the internet. We cannot handle it and we should not. Let's be unplugged once and then and enjoy a real moment with real people instead of digital avatars.
"Time doesn't flow in the digital world in the same way that it does in the natural one ... Not just is the digital now far from the present, but it's in direct competition with it ...The digital world cannibalizes time". We have to be aware of the impact that technology has on us. Of course, it is a good thing and it brings us a lot of improvements to our lives. What would we do without technology nowadays? But like everything else, it must have a limited use, excesses are bad.