"We are depriving ourselves of every opportunity for disconnection." -Scott Belsky
We are all guilty of what we like to call procrastination. We unproductively choose to fill our brains with garbage from social networks. Unfortunately we constantly spend our time doing this, day in and day out. Activities like this (homework) become an hour long process thanks to the notifications saying @LovexO liked our post. We spend so much time trying to be connected to the things that have already happened in other peoples lives that we lose time reflecting on our own.
I agree with Scott Belsky that we should be making more time for disconnection. I know that not everyone is blessed with creative talent but just being able to brainstorm about simple ideas, beliefs, and goals is creative in its own sense. Even if we could fight the urge of picking up our iPhones and hitting the Facebook app during class, we eliminate the outside world and focus solely on our own work.
I like the idea of "unplugging" once a week. It would definitely be hard considering there are temptations all around. At first, most of us would find it left us with 48 hours worth of social networking to catch up on but a lot could get done if we did not spend hours surfing the web.
