I honestly want to be one of those people. I envy them in some ways. I have friends with no Facebook, don't comment or post online, don't really use the internet at all except maybe reading google news while at work for a few minutes a day. I would like to get to that point myself. I've gone a month before, like others here, while I was out of the country on vacation for a long period of time. Also, I instated no computer weeks and nights for myself a few years ago. Just nights or weeks where I don't even turn on my computer. I have 3 days a week that are no computer nights currently, and I simply just don't turn it on on those nights. Cuts my internet usage, cuts my video gaming, and generally leads to a few more productive days in my week where I read a lot, play guitar and piano, juggle, or do projects around the home. It's also important to note, that I feel better about what I did that day on these nights. I feel better the following morning and day to. I'm a filthy internet/online addict. I don't Facebook or Twitter or any of that shit, but I come to places like Hubski, or play online games, and read a lot of news.I have friends who have nearly no net presence
I have a friend that has no cell phone. It's wildly unpractical for everyone in his life, but it doesn't seem to bother him the least bit. He has an iPhone, but no cellular service. He can only talk if he has a good wifi connection. I've learned to realize the limitation and we actually communicate via shared voice memos. It's nice, he'll send me an email with a voice memo attached and it will usually be between 4 and 8 minutes in length and it will catch me up on all he's been up to in a way that most conversations over the phone never do.
A spoken letter, or a voice mail. Sending messages like that sounds like a really neat idea and not really something that's currently available (or at least not used much, which is also interesting). More convenient than a letter, but more personal than an email or Facebook message. Am I missing something here? EDIT: Perhaps something for a future version of tin-can...
Actually, cW is my friend that I am referencing and he is working on making an app that will allow this functionality to be more widely accessible. Clive, wildly unpractical may have been a bit hyperbolic :)
That's awesome. Meanwhile I have a personal cell phone and a work phone I have to carry around with me at all times. :(
I have the same set up, work phone/personal phone. I wish my work phone wasn't an old-school blackberry or I wouldn't need the personal phone.