Is it Time for a Digital Detox?

This year, I completely unplugged on my birthday. I wish I could say it was intentional, but it had more to do with poor phone reception and not wanting to pay for wireless internet. Nontheless, the benefits of being disconnected from the internet and present with my family were wonderful. Seems like it’s a trend:

Randi Zuckerberg called it exactly right. In her recent roundup of the top 10 social media trends, the former Facebook chief marketing officer said it was time for a digital detox, arguing that people need to understand that while “the phone is an amazing tool… we own our devices, they don’t own us.”

Picking up on the same theme, Alice G. Walton recently wrote in Forbes that our dependence on mobile technology could be harming our mental health, noting:

“It may be time to take the workday back, at least in part, and when it comes to responding to a colleague at some ungodly hour, to just say ‘no.’ Or at least, ‘I’ll get back to you during business hours’.”

via Is it Time for a Digital Detox? | Innovation Insights | Wired.com.