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PODCAST: Greg Katsoulis Access Restricted

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The author of Access Restricted and All Rights Reserved talks to me about his YA series and we also get into a great riff on science fiction today.

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Access to this website is restricted at this time. You’ve probably seen this type of page a million times. I know I’ve been seeing these very words, or something in that vein since I was in middle school, when the internet really took off and my school was blocking inappropriate sites.

These days, I’m working at my first job and I signed onto my computer account, opened a Mozilla Firefox browser to research the company’s move to use new media platforms for marketing…and lo and behold, I have no access. While I can certainly request access in the near future and probably get it for research purposes, the restriction got me to thinking about the bigger picture.

Perhaps social media (Facebook, Twitter, Blogging software and etc) began as a purely social concept, but today, friends can be fans and you can do market research on whatever product or company you choose, with your subjects and clients right at your fingertips. These sites are not only beneficial tools, but also often a required form of innovation. Everyone’s doing it and if you’re not, you’re pretty much a loser in the business sector.

A new generation has entered the workforce. We can multi-task better, we have a short attention span and we are eager and spongy when it comes to learning. We absorb new technologies and new ideas on a daily basis and don’t even break a sweat. We’re young, we’re annoying and we are definitely different… and the time has come to make room.

So the question arises? Won’t we get distracted? Why allow “fun” distractions into the workforce besides the fact that they might be valuable tools for promotion, marketing, market research, networking and much more? Those reasons are all obvious, but the question of distraction is not. How do you tackle that hurdle?

Here’s the thing. Because we spent our college careers glued to our computers browsing Facebook profiles, listening to iTunes or Pandora.com, while writing an essay in another window, chatting on AIM, Skype or MSN on our desktops and then eating our cold dry ramen with another hand, we’re pretty good at the multitasking thing. But what’s even more interesting is that we need it. Crazy idea, right? We’ve been so programmed to our distractions that we can no longer work without them.

While all of this might seem like some sort of lame excuse or rant for me to be able to access my Twitter feed at work, it’s really not. Believe me. With sites like Twitter and Facebook uploaded into our brain chips or whatnot, they have become necessary for our creative process and we often create new products or ideas or even book manuscripts based on something we scanned over on a blog or twitter post.