The Digital Detox Experience

I started my experiment over the Mid-Semester Break when I got home. I also did not have a working phone at the time which made it easier to not use it and disconnect. During this experiment, I used three articles to analyze the effects a digital detox on people. After analyzing these articles and my own detox experience, I understand the importance of balance between technology and real experiences, and an effective digital detox is a lot harder than just unplugging the internet and turning off the phone, and technology is still a necessary part of our lifestyles.
When my teacher first told us we were going to do a digital detox, I was not stressed about it. Similar to the experiments we discussed in class about Sherry Turkle’s essay, I have …show more content…
Miller decided to leave the internet because he states “it was ‘corrupting my soul’” (1). He wanted to understand how the internet affected him and use his knowledge to help other people understand also. Miller at first decided to go on a digital detox but was then offered to payment by The Verge to do it for a year.
Contrastingly, Oliver Luckett, in the article, “My Digital Detox Experience” was not confident about the detox. Luckett states that it “seems antithetical to everything I believe,” because of his job as the CEO and co-founder of The Audience (1). But, he also decided to detox himself because he was “always staring at something other than the world” …show more content…
Thought needs to be put into when it occurs, if someone decides to detox for a whole weekend without any plans it will be a boring a weekend where you are just disconnected. However, if it’s in small increments or when a person has a lot of other activity it is very effective. There needs to be a balance between their use of technology and appreciation of free-time. The key is not to unplug and disconnect but to take a break to self-reflect, focus, and appreciate their