BLOG POST #46- Disconnect
During my freshman year of college I took a course, Journalism 101, in which we were tasked with disconnecting from the digital world for 24 hours. No news, no Internet, no television etc. We had to completely disconnect from the world, and live like Amish people basically, for a simple 24 hours. The task was hard enough for most people. Then we had to see how disconnected for a mere 24 hours effected us. It was quite the experiment.
The only thing is that I had an unfair advantage, but it really made me think about it. I am an orthodox Jew, so I observe a 25 hour Sabbath every week from Friday evening until Saturday night. So I was going to participate in the experiment no matter what. But it made me think more about the effects of disconnecting every week and they are more major than you’d expect. After just one day, you have no idea what is going on in the world. You are behind on everything.
I even noticed now that after my Sabbath ends and I go on facebook for the first time on Saturday night, the first fifteen minutes is spent reading the backlog of my newsfeed. All the information that I’d missed in those 25 hours offline. I spend the next few minutes on CNN.com and AIM.com gathering any major news stories I may have missed while I’d been offline. It’s interesting. You should try it.
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