SMARTPHONES, social networking and the internet are destroying our identities, ruining friendships and driving us all insane. At least, that is whatiDisorder by Larry Rosen and Digital Vertigo by Andrew Keen would have you believe. I’m not so sure.
Rosen, a psychologist at California State University in Dominguez Hills, argues that over-reliance on technology can cause psychological problems, the “iDisorders” of the book’s title, but I struggled to find any causal link in chapter after chapter of correlations.
He describes how social networking “over-sharers” show signs of narcissism, constant phone-fiddlers might have OCD and general exposure to technology can…
