{"id":4635,"date":"2009-08-04T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2009-08-02T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T05:44:31","slug":"going-dar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/going-dar\/","title":{"rendered":"Going dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Croatia<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s no secret that I enjoy being online and connecting with others.<\/p>\n

But being on vacation last week — primarily in international waters — forced me to forgo my daily habits and go dark online for the extent of our trip.<\/p>\n

I loved it! It was a nice change of pace for sure. Granted there were several time when I thought — ooh I should Twitter that — but the high price of phone service kept me in check.
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\nGreg Atkinson<\/a> suggested at the Church 2.0 forum that everyone should take the occassional dark day. Where Twitter, Facebook, email, txt messaging, blogs and more are ignored for an entire day.<\/p>\n

Greg takes a full day — once a week — from the sound of it. He also suggested that if you can’t make it a full day without grabbing up your iPhone, BlackBerry or computer without going crazy — you may have a problem.<\/p>\n

So I’m curious — do you take a dark day or week from your online communities? How often? What have you learned from it?<\/p>\n

Or are you jonesin’ for the Internet every second of the day?<\/p>\n

Photo from notrealistic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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