Musician John Mayer wants you to step away from the laptop and desist with the texting: Mayer is undergoing a digital cleanse, and he wants you to join him.
Mayer says on his blog:
I’ll be defragmenting my mental and psychological hard drive during the first seven days of the new year, and I invite you all to participate.”
The cleanse will begin at 9am on January 1. This gives everyone a chance to text and tweet their new year’s well wishes, and theoretically begins upon waking up the morning of January 1. The cleanse will end at 9am on January 8.”
Hm, sounds like an interesting concept. “What does said defragmentation entail?” you may ask. Mayer has provided a set of rules:
Guidelines:
– email only from laptop or desktop computers
– cell phones can only be used to make calls, and no text messages or e-mails are allowed — if you receive a text, you must reply in voice over the phone. E-mails must be returned from a laptop or desktop computer.
– no use of Twitter or any other social networking site — this includes reading as well as posting.
– no visiting of any entertainment or gossip sites. (No need to detail which ones — you know what they are.)The concept of cutting digital ties is a rather intriguing one. Anyone willing to give the digital cleanse a go?
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