Ta en paus!

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Stop all the beeps

Stop all the beeps, turn off your mobile phone,
Prevent the PDAs chirping with a message from home,
Close up your Moleskine and rest a tired thumb
Turn a new page no more; your to-do list is done.

Let Twitterers twitter from under their beds
Typing out the message Productivity is Dead.
Close all open windows with the icons above,
The hour has now come to find your real love.

Spend more time with your family, music or art.
Your working week needn’t play a big part.
Those ‘productivity secrets’ were here all along;
Thought GTD was the answer? Perhaps you’re wrong.

Those apps are not needed: uninstall every one;
Pack up your computer, rediscover the sun;
Silence your iPod, take a walk in green woods.
For wasting a life never came to any good.

by Nick Cernis (with credit to W.H Auden)

För två år sedan antog jagBett R Worlds superutmaning och genomförde en mediefasta, en elektronisk paus. Det visade sig vara ganska lätt att stänga av TVn, datorn/internet däremot var svårare att avstå ifrån.
Via Business weeks blogg Working Parents hittade jag en artikel om två tonåringar som inledde året med med en "Facebookfasta".

“The trouble with Facebook,” says my daughter, “is that when someone sends you a message, or writes something on your wall, or comments on a photo, or sends you a picture, you feel you have to answer, and then they answer you, and it goes on and on.”

Facebook är kul men det är lätt att fastna i olika grupper, bilder på gamla klasskamraters familjer och annat. Detsamma gäller bloggar, webbplatser och andra sociala media som Twitter eller Jaiku.

Läs mer!
One Week on the Low Information Diet
Edit Your Life, Part 6: A Media Fast
How to Create Balance with a Media Fast