Stop posting Facebook pictures. Halt your Twitter updates. Ignore that potential picture of puppies for Tumblr. It’s time to unplug.
The National Day of Unplugging is a movement taking place from sundown on March 23 to sundown on March 24, and it’s calling for you to step away from the computer, the tablet, the smartphone — anything that connects you to the electronic world, and not the people around you.
The idea stemmed from organization Reboot’s Sabbath Manifesto, based on the Jewish tradition of resting from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown without using any electricity. Going on its third year in 2012, Reboot recently hosting a talk at “the most plugged-in place on the planet,” Austin’s South by Southwest festival, on “Can You Survive A Day Without Technology?”
Even The Huffington Post’s own editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington, has made it her personal mission to ensure people get more sleep and reconnect with those around them.
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