A week ago, I decided to give up social media for 50 days. A few days ago, I read an article about a writer talking about how he lived without Facebook and Twitter for 2 weeks. (The thing that hit me was how he mentioned “Lived…without”–Implying that social media has become something vital to our […]
Kicking the Social Media Habit
I never tried a cigarette, but I have friends and family who smoked. When they quit, they all mentioned how much of a habit reaching for a cigarette was. Just BOOM! they reached out for something that was no longer there. I mentioned yesterday that I’m taking a 50-day break from social media. Sunday night […]
The 50 Day Social Media Break
When I read Monica Valentinelli’s Hunting Down the Value of Social Media entry and the followup: The Results of My 100 Day Social Media Blackout, I wondered if I could go without Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ for even a month. I’ve fasted and taken other challenges in my time, but as hard as some of […]