As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.
I don't go on social media.
I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.
There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.
That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.
I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.
I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain.
I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.
I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.
I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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.
Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.
I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.
I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.
My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.
Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.
I by no means quit social media.
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.
I see some kids whose social media is their whole world, and I actually think it's good to disconnect from that.
With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.
I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.
I try to stay off Twitter.
