Boston Globe Reporter Dara Olmsted writes in her Green Blog that you are not alone if you have trouble prying yourself away from your technology. She says to try the National Day of Unplugging.
On the weekends, I try my hardest to stay offline, off my phone, and away from the tv, but for some reason, I find it really hard. I’m not the only one. The folks from Reboot and the Sabbath Manifesto have heard this complaint time and again and are here to help. For their second annual National Day of Unplugging (from sundown March 4th to sundown March 5th), they have created an app that helps people of all faiths disconnect from technology (and yes, they understand the irony of using technology to disconnect from technology). The app is the opposite of Foursquare. Instead of checking in, the app allows you to check out of the online world, sending a message to your friends and family that you will not be checking Facebook or replying to texts for the day.
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