I think it's nice sometimes not to be plugged in 24/7 to email and the Internet and everything else. It's nice to get away.
Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.
Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.
I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.
Time off from the news is always something I welcome.
Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.
I think that it's really important to step back and to take breaks as a digital creator because every other kind of platform is kind of set up to have seasons or time off or at least a barrier between creator and consumer. You have these set-up boundaries.
I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.
I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.
I don't have social media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, nothing. I don't receive information. That's why my head, my face, looks younger than I really am.
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
I try to stay away from the Internet.
I delete the Twitter app during the season.
I'm actually a big fan of turning off my phone and ignoring it for large chunks of the day.
Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
A 'social media fast' is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you're simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.
Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.
The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.
You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
After a Sunday night game, what I do is I usually wait like a day and a half before going on Twitter.
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
