By Dan Schreiber, SF Examiner
A new mobile-phone application is designed to reduce the use of the ubiquitous devices — an irony that is not lost on the people behind the new “Sabbath Manifesto” program.
“Yes, it’s using a high-tech app to tell people you’re having a low-tech day,” said Tanya Schevitz, a spokesperson for Reboot Communications who is promoting the app in conjunction with the second annual National Day of Unplugging that goes from sundown Friday to sundown on Saturday. “We’re not anti-technology. The idea is to take a pause and reconnect with people lost in this deluge of information.”
The Sabbath app lets users post a message to their Facebook and Twitter accounts that they are having a “digital detox,” among other stock status updates. The app also promotes 10 principles of Sabbath in the modern world, including avoiding commerce, lighting candles, drinking wine and giving back.
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