How do we avoid being sucked into all these attention grabbing technologies?

Ignore them.

Why are we worried about this in the first place? Aren't we in full control over what we do?  What we engage in, and who we do it with?

Is it really that hard to keep the "resistance" to be "assimilated" alive and well.

Ask yourself, what will really happen if you did the following 5 things today?

1. No social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram) - imagine eliminating the deep seated need to constantly check what other people are doing ... or the desperate need to post about what we are doing, forgetting to live the moment for ourselves with the people that are actually present
2. No TV cable subscription - imagine eliminating the feeling that you have to watch something because you are paying for it or because it is the thing to do because that is what everybody else is watching.
3. Leave you mobile phone behind - imagine not carrying your mobile phone when you are with somebody ... no interruptions, no need to fact check anything ... actually having a deeper conversation.
4. Do your electronic communications in bursts - schedule the processing of all your emails, texts, etc. in bursts once or twice a day instead of every 2 minutes.  
5. Use a task management tool - offload all future action items to a task management tool to take things off your mind until it is time to act ... eliminate the need to constantly review to-do lists or feeling that something is not getting done.

If you are successful, what will you do with all that extra time?  Spend more time with your loved ones, traveling more, learning more, helping more, thinking more?

At a minimum, you will be living more connected to everything ... and, strangely, time will slow down and days will last longer.