智能手機讓我們跟網絡的距離更近了，我們甚至可以每時每刻都在線，有那么多即時通訊方式，我們想要找誰，也總能找到。這樣的狀況看似很便捷，可回頭想想，我們的生活是不是有點“過度連接”呢？

Over-connectedness refers to the state or condition of having an over-abundance of existing or potential technologically mediated connections to other people and to online resources.

過度連接（over-connectedness）指生活中現有的或潛在可用的、跟別人或網絡資源連接的技術設備過分充足的狀態。

Over-connectedness is the social disease of the new millennium. It is the anxiety that is going to be produced when telecommunications combines with the “Evernet” — the technology that allows people to get online from their watches, their cars, their toasters or their pens — so that everyone will be able to be connected all the time, everywhere.

過度連接是新千年的社會病，是通訊方式與“永聯網”結合后會導致的一種焦慮狀態。新的技術讓人們可以通過手表、汽車、面包機或者筆連接到網絡，這樣人們就可以隨時隨地聯絡到彼此。

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen）