OMG! No Social Media For HOW LONG?
It's called The Amish Project and it's about as backwards as us technologically-addicted humans can imagine.
No phone, no lights no motor cars, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be.
Sort of.
Jake P. Reilly, a 24-year-old college student in Madison, Wisconsin, went off the high-tech grid for 3 months last October through December.
And he lived to tell about it.
He said he felt like we spend more quality time with gadgets and keyboards than we do with people face-to-face. Needless to say, doing the unthinkable changed his life.
In the conclusion of an interview with Jake, Brad Sylvester sums it up:
"With modern technology, texts and Facebook wall posts can serve as an attractive veneer making relationships seem more genuine than they really are. Conversely, social media can interfere with our most intimate real-life relationships. How many of your closest relationships would suffer if people had to invest more effort than sending a text to stay in touch? How much better could your relationship with your significant other be if you could give your partner your full attention whenever you're together? There's one way to find out, if you dare."
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