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Free writing: Name: Institution: Date: Journal Entry 12: Argument Not all kind of multitasking is as negative, a closer look and evaluation will reveal that fact. Planning a head is key to multitasking that is positive. During the long bus rides to school and back, or the time taken to prepare and make dinner, would be a good time to make those routine calls. When these activities are planned ahead in good time, they tend to have a greater positive effect, reducing time wasted and enhance the quality of the tasks accomplished. Some other kinds of multitasking are not as productive and they end up being destructive. These could be getting distracted by social media alerts, games, e-mails or even the urge to browse for videos on YouTube, while at the same time trying to read for an assignment. As such, if multitasking is limited to just what is required to accomplish the most important tasks, it will reduce the negative effects of multitasking. The worst hit by the negative multitasking are the students, as they could be on a home computer trying to research on class work, but they have several other applications running in the background. Such applications are most likely going to be social media websites e.g. Facebook, Twitter, or even texting on the smart phones. It becomes really hard to balance between whatever class work needs to done and the temptations to chat with friends. There is even a more compulsive temptation, when the sites they are visiting do not have some kind of alerts. The students therefore keep checking the sites, to see what they have missed in the last few seconds they were not on the site (McWhorter 289). It is therefore important that these distractions are reduced by limiting multitasking to the most necessary tasks. Having the phone close by, is a good thing as one can receive important message that require ones attention. It is not pro...
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