The saying is “The world is my oyster” and now “the world is the click of a finger away”.

Just 35 years ago all of our learning came from text books and libraries. We learnt the hard way, mastering reading and writing, processing complex information and forming independent opinions was something we developed over a life-time.

With the click of a finger we can access a wealth of information and experts have noticed with this resource comes the ability to rationalise information and adopt informed views quicker and from a much earlier age. Young people are now now so used to processing information from a multitude of sources and use this skill naturally in everyday life. They are now more capable of rationalising emotions ad complex situations earlier, and can drill down to the route of a situation and find a suitable solution far quicker than previous generations would have been able to do so. Their brains have been trained from using the multitude of information sources available to them on their habitual digital channels.

The result is a younger, more informed and free-thinking people and our fingers are the gateway to all this learning. We have instant contact at our fingertips, wherever we are.

It will be interesting to follow what the long-term effects of these developments will be too. It is widely believed that the reason we as a race have triumphed is because of our opposable thumbs. Could it be that all these years we have just been growing and evolving so one day we could text each other with one hand?

It is fun to think of how we might evolve now everything we do is so intensively digit-powered. Our hands might become phone shaped cups with two very highly developed and muscular thumbs for faster typing speeds. we might change our shape from all the sitting and typing. Our necks could bend over, eyes become bigger and our fingers more powerful. How frightening to think the film Wall-e with its sinister foretelling of a spineless, boneless race could ring true!

Have YOU got smartphone pinky? People are noticing changes in the shape of their little fingers, take a look at your little finger on the hand you use to hold your phone and compare it to the other, you may find an indentation on the place where it contacts with your phone!

One thing for sure is we must do all we can to look after our busy fingers and take care of them, not just cosmetically but gently, deeply and often look after the flexibility of your hands and skin. Give them a rest from all that furious activity and regularly through the day massage your palms and fingers to ease tension and avoid repetitive strain injury.

Take a moment to smooth a layer of SEAMS Hand Cream into the skin in a circular motion using the thumb from the opposite hand. Working into the pressure points from wrist, palm and down to the fingertips.
Gently massage SEAMS into one finger at a time, making circular motions over all three joints on each finger and gently pill each fingertip away from the hand.
Turn your palm over and use your opposite thumb to massage in deep circular movements.
Breath in the lovely calming scent of SEAMS then carry on with energised, soft hands.

Click your fingers and buy SEAMS today

Karen J