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Disconnecting in a too-connected world
By Barbara Ortutay FRANKLIN, NY©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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goddog
Sounds like you had a very stressful weekend, and your Monday will be horrible with all that mail waiting for you.
Get rid of facebook. It is wasting your time.
cleo
I wonder if those were vegetarian marshmallows, and if so, where can I get them?
timeon
sounds more like a brainwashing yoga camp to me...
Zenny11
Places like that are becoming more and more common, needed as people need to wean themselves from being connected 24/7.
Don't have to be yoga either(granted it is big now).
chuckbello
Is there a retreat like this in Japan. No cell phone connection? I went to an onsen in Gunma, The place was majestic and I had a great time but I still had to answer my cell phone.
Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
@Chuck Bello
A friend of mine went once or twice to zen meditation week/2 week resort near Kyoto, I believe.
Not only no cell phones. No sound. No talking at all. All day meditation. His complaint was that the people weren't silent enough. People clearing their throats once in a while, etc...
Zenny11
chuckbello.
Just turn it off and tell your company/friends that you will be unavailable.
Used to be the norm at companies where I worked that if you were on a course or on leave no-one contacted you, but alas no longer it seems.
smartacus
I find it weird that so many people can't go a day without their cell phones. I grew up in an era when there were no cell phones, Blackberrys, Internet, email, iPods, etc. We managed just fine. We were just as busy, but our lives didn't revolve around gadgets. But then I guess my parents and grandparents said the same thing about TVs.
Zenny11
I am with you smartacus.
Surviving fine without a cell, etc. If I want peace I turn off the PC and switch on the answering machine, I get back to you at my convenience not yours.
lucabrasi
But, but...how did you send your tweets?
Zenny11
Who wants to be a twit tweeting another twit?
Zenny11
And that being a joke.
Spidapig24
OMG no cell phones, how did you communicate with your friends when you werent home. No internet, how did you download movies and look at um hmm. No email, oh crap how antique is that. How did you send jokes to people. And no Ipods, sh** what did you listen to on the trains and when you where walking around.... How scary
lucabrasi
@Zenny
Agree utterly, to tell the truth. Never tweeted in my life :)
Zenny11
We didn't download and "look at um hmm" we actually did it for real. :P Like we did other things in person and if a guy got funny he faced the music(ie punches, beat-down).
True we had some magical devices called a walkman, radio, etc.
Spidapig24
Zenny11,
Sorry, l was just taking the p. Im not that young that l dont remember pre ipod, mobile days. It just sounded like one of my fathers when l was younger speeches which normally end with me saying "yeah but this is the 21 century not the 18th....
Zenny11
No prob. See you on the other site.
Foxie
What a ridiculous story! No one is forcing to tweet you all day long. Rich, spoiled people who don't know how to live, pretty pathetic.
John Constantine
If I were cut off from the internet I would be extremely bored at work.
littlebird
Lovely idea, but recently I want my phone near me just in case of an earthquake. Probably not anything a New Yorker worries about. Nothin' like Living on the Fault Line...
AirBetweenTeeth
This woman is a living, walking cliché. A (no doubt cosseted and pampered) Manhattanite with a penchant for Southern vampire fiction, the obligatory iPhone references when there are numerous other brands with exactly the same functionality, the weekend yoga retreat in the mountains . . . I can't believe AP paid for this pap.
Oh puhlease