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5 commandments for your digital fast this Lent

February 21, 2012

I’m not really a Lent kinda gal. (It may have something to do with me being Jewish.) But for the past few years, I’ve felt increasingly Lent-aware, because of the sheer number of people who now seem to give up Facebook for Lent (but then tweet about it), email for Lent (but then blog about [...]

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Alone online

September 1, 2010

When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an all-pervasive sense [...]

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Research reveals people can survive up to 24 hours without Internet access

July 7, 2010

I’m fascinated by the number of people who are experimenting with different forms of unplugging: journalists, bloggers and tweeters who take some kind of solo holiday from connectivity. But a recent study at the University of Maryland took a larger-scale approach, asking 200 students to go offline for 24 hours. The top 5 findings of [...]

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A techsperiment that puts family tech use in a new light

June 23, 2010

Last week we conducted a techsperiment on eliminating gadgets from our family time: we swore off using iPhones, iPads and computers from the time we got home (5 or 6) until the time the kids were asleep (8 or 9). We did pretty well during the week, and discovered that our family time was more [...]

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Your social media friends are your real friends

June 15, 2010

Diana Adams is one of a growing number of social media junkies who have experimented with taking some time off from the web. She describes “hitting a wall” with her social media use and online relationships, and taking 8 days off from the net so that she could put things in perspective. What’s refreshing about [...]

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Techsperiment day 1: the difficulty of unplugging with kids

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24 hours into our vow to unplug — for just 3 hours a day! — and I am the weakest link. We’ve sworn to give up computers, iPhones and iPads between 6-9 every night (“family time”) but it’s day one and I’m already struggling. And that’s after our daughter did a good job reinforcing our [...]

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How to unplug as a parent: a techsperiment

June 14, 2010
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Last week’s New York Times piece on kids who are exasperated by their parents’ constant emailing, phoning and twittering hit close to home. “What’s more important,” our daughter is known to ask. “Your iPhone, or your children?” Along with plenty of talk about the downsides of wired parenting, the article includes a couple of interesting practices. [...]

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