Zombification by technology

Technology turns people in to zombies. All uni students love sleep, but how many of us actually get enough? what with our busy social lives, jobs and studies people struggle to get enough shuteye nowadays. Insomnia is an ever increasing problem amongst the youth of today, how many times have you lain in bed late at night, restless, struggling to sleep and then find youself on your laptop? It is important for us as youths to get as much sleep as possible because when we enter the workforce for real sleep will be at a premium anyways and our obsession with social networking sites is setting us up with bad habits! Since we are the what they call "digital natives" the issue of sleep deprivation is more important for us than generations before since our relationship with technology is more commited than any other relationships. So here are some helpful tips to get you to sleep instead of getting on facebook:

1. Exercise! exercise is good way to burn off all the unused energy stored in your body, you dont need to do much go for a walk or something at the very least the fresh air will actually be good for you. You never sleep as well as when you are tired.

2. Read (a book). This is also a good way to stimulate your mind and get that sucker to do some work. Nothing beats the aestheic of reading from a book, stories are constructed specifically to entertain and inform the reader. So forget Mary's latest status and read a book. Worst comes to worst the book will be so boring you'll fall asleep anyways. Its a win/win situation!

3. Turn off your laptop when youre done with it. Laptops can go days on end without actually being turned off. Im pretty sure for some of you the last time yours was actually off was when you forgot to charge it. Leaving you laptop on at all times encourges people to believe they have unfinished business with their laptops which is disturbing all on its own.

4. If your insomnia means you are getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night then you need to distance yourself from your personal techs. Keep your cellphone, iPod and laptop out of your room when you go to bed,this will be a little harder to achieve at first this might seem a little extreme but it is a useful habit to have.

As much as we'd like to believe technology and humans have not (yet) evolved to be the perfect cyborg being. If you can seperate yourself from technology during the evening, your social life will not suffer. Dont turn in to a zombie, distance yourself from technology it will be there when you wake up!