End of January 2012 I started reading reports about Jake Reilly, who decided to go 90 whole days without a cell phone, e-mail, or social media. He did it.
I've done it many times. In fact, I'm very annoyed that Google keeps bugging people to link their cell phone numbers with their e-mail, Bloggers, and other "products." I don't want anyone from Google to call me up in part because HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO CALL GOOGLE TO ASK A QUESTION WHEN YOU HAVE A TECH PROBLEM? It just wouldn't be fair. (Besides I have my passwords in more than one place and in code!) Since when does everyone have a cell phone, even if phone booths are disappearing off every corner?
You see, I believe that tools are meant to make our lives easier and more simple. I believe we are to use the tools. I do not believe that the tools should use us or make our lives more complicated to take more of our time. I obviously use Internet, Google Blogger, and other tools. When technology starts obligating you to use it, when you find your time that ought to be spent getting exercise or interacting with live people, when you find that you spend more time going through JUNK E-MAILS and SPAM instead of going out to the museum, when you become a brain wired up without a body to travel through earthly life with...
If you're going to hide, do it behind a door with a lock on it, where you can take a leisurely tub bath alone or with a friend. I'm troubled by all the people who want to substitute texting or e-mail with phone calling when with cell phone calling long distance is no longer a hurried "Can't afford the long distance" matter. If you know someone who is local and has never given you their cell phone number, e-mail address, or any other link to you, why are you deluded?
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