I read a story a while back about a lady who decided to make her family cut back on social networking, as well as Internet & cell phone usage. She went quite extreme with it; had no cell phones, Internet or cable for 6 months in her household. Although I'm sure her family were somewhat disconnected from the real world, they picked up other hobbies like a musical instrument, reading novels & other things that grow the mind.
I'm not gonna be that crazy about it, but I am gonna try something similar. I've found social networking has been occupying far too much of my time. Haven't been playing guitar as much as I'd like to, when hanging out with friends I'm always on my phone and it goes on like this. So I'm gonna try and cut back on my social networking. There has to be some obvious exceptions to this, my job involves a lot of interaction on our facebook & twitter accounts. So I plan to use the work accounts & perhaps a little browsing of my own while at work but otherwise I won't be using my own personal accounts. The real test will be on my days off (Monday & Tuesday) to not use them at all.
I will attempt to go at this for as long as possible, for now I'll set a small goal of next Friday. This is all in effort to get back in touch with reality, realizing that FB & the Twitterverse aren't the be all end all and remember life before social networking (what did we do back in those days anyway?). If you're so bold, give this a try as well, who knows how your life could change....
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