The last two weeks have been extremely intense. I thought a lot about digital literacy. I consider myself to be a fairly good person in the digital world. However, I know that there are people who are more fluent than me in this area. I wonder if I should constantly improve my digital competences, or if I do not, I will be lagging behind technology.

However, I have the impression that I am wasting my time searching for and trying new innovations in digital technology. I am a person who, before trying something will deeply check all the conditions and rules of this new thing. And I don’t want to waste precious time reading, checking the regulations of some new service or tool, even if they are to raise my digital competences.

On the other hand, what does raising digital competences mean? Do I have to constantly install new applications that make life easier? Do I have to try new digital tools that will improve my work? Do I have to be constantly “in touch” so as not to miss something?

Does being constantly in the digital world cause me to miss something much more important? I have the impression that the higher my digital skill level, the less social I become. Instead of spending time with my family – I constantly check something, look for information, do online shopping and online transfers. I don’t want my children to remember me as Mom with a phone in my hand.

Despite the fact that I use many amenities of the digital world and appreciate the speed with which many things can be dealt with in this way, I am terrified by the gradual separation of people from people, and the weakening of interpersonal bonds. I consider the judicious use of digital technologies to be the most important digital competence nowadays. And I wish that the phone would never replace a real contact with the family.