The coming week I’ll do a little experimenting again: (almost) no web-related activities. This means no checking/interacting/downloading/posting on/from sites, forums, my rss-reader and even *gasp*…Twitter. I will check my email once in a while, but that’s it. So why do this? Is it to have a cleanse like John Mayer (although I will be using some of his cleansing rules)? Am I bored with the web? Not really.
I don’t suffer from web overload or boredom. I do believe it would be interesting to see how much (if any) I would miss the thing I spend most of my free time on. Especially what I would miss. It’s convenient that it coincides with a vacation I’m taking next week (more on that in a later post) in a place where I don’t know if I can get on the web easily (I know my friends place where I’ll be staying is connected, but know nothing about mobile web availability).
So what does this entail? As from sunday morning 21st of February 0.01 AM CET until 168 hours later I will just check email with my usual regularity (once a day) and that is all the internet activity I’ll allow myself. For all the other stuff I use the web for I’ll either have to find alternatives (for things like news gathering) or just be without (things like chatting or Twitter). Of course until midnight comes I’ll probably share, discuss and tweet so much it will look like spam-like activities.
See you in a week.
I think you should even drop the checking of your e-mail accounts. Or else it’s just cheating