Pull the trigger on technology today
March 13th, 2009by
Nana Aba Duncan
Are you addicted to Facebook, your dating sites and cell-phone? Think you could NOT check it for 24 hours? What about your Blackberry - how would you feel if I took THAT away? Would someone special in your life appreciate it if you spent more time looking at THEM, talking to THEM, and not some device or machine?
Well it’s time to PULL THE TRIGGER and UNPLUG yourself! That’s no TV, no radio, no internet, no video games, no cell phones, no ipod none of it. Take ONE FULL DAY this month and be completely unconnected!
And don’t go thinking you’ll be bored. There’s a LOT you can do. Remember back when we used write letters - with a PEN and PAPER? Then we’d send them off KNOWING it might be two WEEKS before we’d get a response? Do something like that.
And it doesn’t stop have to stop there - do it with dating. Stop flirting with your computer screen and start flirting IN PERSON at a coffee shop.
Or sit in a room with your partner and just. Talk. Unplug your STUFF and get REALLY connected. Can you do it?? I really don’t know how many of you can, but if you do, you must let us know what happened - after you’ve gone 24 hours unplugged from the online world.
Tell us if you plan to PULL THE TRIGGER and unplug yourself or the result of having done so. We’d love to hear and read your stories on the radio!
Cheers,
Nana Aba Duncan






