Quotes about Instant Messaging from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Let's rediscover the unity in community
In the twenty-first century—an age in which we are increasingly connected by cell phones, e-mail, and instant messaging, but paradoxically drawn further apart by quick and impersonal exchange—there is a great need to reengage with our communities to overcome the isolating effect such technology has had on all of us. Investing time in your community not only builds your cognitive reserve, it also builds social capital that benefits us all.
Health care will also find a more fruitful future by reembracing the myriad benefits of community."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "Food marketing to children now extends beyond television and is widely prevalent on the Internet [209]; it is expanding rapidly into a ubiquitous digital media culture of new techniques including cell phones, instant messaging, video games, and three-dimensional virtual worlds, often under the radar of parents [210]."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Increasingly too, children become involved in virtual friendships on the Internet, through chatrooms and instant messaging on websites, such as the CBBC and PlayStation sites. Children often value these types of chat as ways of making easy non-face-to-face contact (ideal if you're shy or socially isolated) and keeping in touch with friends. As they tend to be much more chat-sawy than their parents - nearly twice as many online teenagers use instant messaging as online adults - parents may feel technologically left behind."- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
 "Lately, cocooning has taken on a new wrinkle—the creation of and deep immersion in our own customized on-demand "digital environments," which combine the realms of Web surfing, video games, instant messaging, cell phones and their photographic and text messaging capabilities, cable TV, DVDs, and on-demand television and movies."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "Instant Messaging Another service driven by P2P technology is instant messaging. Instant message services enable you to send short electronic messages back and forth to other online users, in real time, without the need to enter a public chat room.
P2P Groupware and Other Future Applications P2P technology has also driven a new type of software program, dubbed groupware. Groupware enables multiple users to work together on group projects, over the Internet or a corporate network. Traditional groupware programs, such as Lotus Notes, require the group to be connected by a central server."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
| "As they tend to be much more chat-sawy than their parents - nearly twice as many online teenagers use instant messaging as online adults - parents may feel technologically left behind.
However, as there are many dangers associated with electronic friendship, parents need to wise up about chat - perhaps by visiting some of the websites listed on page 278. For instance, as seen in the previous chapter, marketeers increasingly make contact with children via texts, Internet messaging systems and on websites." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
 "We have become distracted by technology and its many tools (cell phones, computers, BlackBerry devices, instant messaging), and many are finding it difficult to pay attention. We can to some extent blame technology for partial attention, but it is probably overall stress that is the greatest hindrance to mental work capacity. Adaptogens can certainly help in this area.
Adaptogens for Improved Brain Function
Adaptogens have a direct effect on nervous system health."- David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.) |
| "At the dawn of the new millennium, it appeared that the next killer app was the instant messaging program. Instant messengers—such as AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and Microsoft Messenger—let users exchange private messages in real time over the Internet, and quickly supplanted the earlier Internet public chat programs.
Searching the Web Perhaps the most common user activity on the Web was searching—for information, names and addresses, or whatever else the user needed to find.
Accordingly, one of the most-visited Web sites was a searchable directory of other Web sites called Yahoo! The Yahoo!" - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Internet. Not to be confused with chat, which can accommodate multiple users, instant messaging (IM) typically is limited to just two users, integrated circuit an entire electronic circuit contained on one piece of silicon. The first integrated circuit began with a single board (originally plastic), onto which strips of conducting material were sprayed; electronic components could then be inserted directly onto the board. Internet the global "network of networks" that connects millions of computers and other devices around the world." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
| "Internet safe) www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk (a good first port of call for reviews of websites on any subject) www.unicef.org/magic (UNICEF MAGIC - media activities and good ideas by, with and for children)
Mind the gap
The positive side of life in the electronic village described on pages 266-270 applies mainly to wealthier families, the sort of people who would read this book, and probably have broadband access, sophisticated viewing habits and a high level of media literacy." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
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