“Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.”

“Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.”

“The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.”

“The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.”

“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.”

“SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.”

“Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.”