Digital detoxes, short or long, remind me that people survived just fine before the Interweb. Their lives were simpler in a lot of ways, and they were probably happier for it. I do appreciate the ways the Interweb has made our lives easier, but I’m learning to use it in smaller doses.

I love the idea of a digital detox. I wasn’t able to do the full week like Adbusters recommended (I need my job and all), but the last two weekends I’ve left my computer at home when we went away to see friends. It was a huge relief, and I want to do it more in my non-working hours.

Sifting through everything makes me feel like I have my finger on the pulse of what’s happening–information I use everyday to inform what I do for my design clients. At the same time, there’s never a point where that information stops coming in, and there’ll always be more to accumulate.

I really like the idea of periodic digital detoxes, and remembering that there’s a whole craft of ‘real world’ things to do!

Yeah, social media especially is a “value” commodity. I compared Twitter to a toaster: you need one, get one… you don’t, then it’s useless to you so forget about it.