Taking a Break from the Net: There’s an App for That
A group promoting a worldwide day without the net on March 4 and 5 created an app for smartphones that tells your Twitter followers and Facebook friends that you are throwing them over for 25 hours, opting for some real-world, nitty-gritty reality.
The free app called Sabbath Manifesto seems based on the assumption that we’ve become a world of zombielike mobile-phone typers who are collectively unaware that mobile phones and computers can be muted or turned off and that humans can be spoken to in person.
But the app doesn’t actually mute your phone. Instead, it tells your friends and followers on Facebook that you will be off the grid to “reconnect with friends, family, the community and [yourself].”
The group behind the app hopes millions will “check out” for what the group calls the second annual National Day of Unplugging, which runs from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
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