Why Smart Devices Are Revolutionary for Introverts
You could have received the latest tech gadget as a Christmas present, or even picked one up yourself. Either way, you end up with a new friend on your phone or in your home. The smart device revolution has arrived with an estimated 2.5 billion users fueling it and even more growth in adoption expected in the future.
Some of the best features of smart devices are obvious. They can respond to our needs intelligently, through new AI and machine learning processes that are only improving every year. You have to ask yourself; if a smart device can interact with its owner in a human-like way, what’s keeping us from fully-utilizing them for that purpose? For introverts, that’s the reason they’re life changing.
Using Smart Devices to Communicate
Once upon a time we all used rather archaic methods to get to where we were going. TomTom, paper maps, compasses — it’s been a tough journey, in more than one way. Those days are long behind us now and we can thank our handy dandy smartphones for that. You can easily find navigation systems integrated in modern cars as well, so there isn’t really an excuse to get lost.
For introverts, feeling pressured to communicate all the time can be… a lot of pressure! The more options they have to solve problems without communicating, the better. That’s why the introduction of smart devices is so useful, if not necessary, for most introverts today.
Even simple things like choosing where to eat or checking business hours can be easily done by looking it up or asking for recommendations from your personal assistant (Whether it be by the name of Siri, Google, Cortana, or Alexa). This is a lifesaver for the less-talkative types since you can skip the awkward short phone calls with actual humans and skip to a Yelp page.
Ordering Everything Through Delivery
Why wouldn’t you love delivery? Toiletries, food, furniture—anything and everything is so much better when you don’t have to haul it back home with you. It saves time, energy, and is ridiculously less stressful for the average introvert because you don’t have to actually go outside.
When you think delivery, the first thing that might pop into your mind is products or food. Oh boy, are you missing out! Thanks to expanded delivery services by retailers and the convenience of the web and how easily it connects customers with businesses, you might never need to leave your home again.
Let’s say you needed a new car, that can be picked out online and a done deal in days. All you have to do is wait for the deliveryman to drive up and drop it off. You can even schedule a masseur to come over and enjoy a Swedish massage right in the comfort of your home!
A New Way to Learn and Share
In the digital age, nearly everyone is accessible all the time and it’s thanks to their smart devices. You can be texted, emailed, tweeted at, and more at any time. That’s a new way entirely of communicating because it’s up to the recipient when they respond to that communication. That fact empowers introverts because it gives them more time and necessary separation from others to come up with natural responses and shed an “extroverted façade” often present in public.
The same concept goes for how introverts consume and process information. While extroverts can be described to respond to multiple ideas and a wide range of stimuli at once; introverts prefer to focus on fewer things and consume them in small amounts. Being able to look up things and mull things over without being rushed is a dream come true.
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Hana Othman
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