Digital/media detox?

[Isabelle]

Technology can become addictive. I know my partner's son would spend every waking moment on his iPad if he was allowed.

I was reading that the way to crack the addiction in children is to impose a digital detox, and this is something I would like to try myself personally.

I spend 2 hours each day on the bus and I find myself playing with my phone to pass the time. But I feel this would be better spent reading a book or something else.

i keep in contact with my second employer and arrange my gym class through Facebook, so I couldn't give it up entirely, I just think I need to cut back.

Anyone else done this?

[tzijlstra]

Yes, occasionally I will take a one or two day break, particularly at weekends and we've also taken to avoiding wi-fi in cottages we stay in, although a week... very long!

 

It is nice, resets the mind a bit. Also tends to help with sleeping. (One thing to unlearn asap is using a screen, including TV!, in the half hour before going to bed.)

[El Cid]

i keep in contact with my second employer and arrange my gym class through Facebook, so I couldn't give it up entirely, I just think I need to cut back.

Anyone else done this?

 

I dont work in the school holidays, and I thought about posting my modem to my sister, but I never did.

I take as much work as I can, that keeps me busy

[Lex Luthor]

Had an enforced de-tox when I discovered the place I was staying for a few weeks earlier this year had no internet, digital tv or phone signal. I've never slept so well or been so productive during my waking hours for years! The obvious and immediate benefits certainly made me cut back since on my 'live' time.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Technology can become addictive. I know my partner's son would spend every waking moment on his iPad if he was allowed.

I was reading that the way to crack the addiction in children is to impose a digital detox, and this is something I would like to try myself personally.

I spend 2 hours each day on the bus and I find myself playing with my phone to pass the time. But I feel this would be better spent reading a book or something else.

i keep in contact with my second employer and arrange my gym class through Facebook, so I couldn't give it up entirely, I just think I need to cut back.

Anyone else done this?

Yes. The Jewish Sabbath is, I find, a pleasant break from e-this and i-that.

Maybe everyone ought to have one offline day a week, no matter when.