Comments on: Digital Day of Rest http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/ Blogging About Social Media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:39:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Riayn http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-765 Riayn Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:05:12 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-765 Now Musing, that is cheating - switching off one electronical device just to watch another one. The idea behind it is to get you off your butt and out into the world. Now Musing, that is cheating - switching off one electronical device just to watch another one. The idea behind it is to get you off your butt and out into the world.

]]> By: Musing http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-756 Musing Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:53:53 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-756 How uncanny. My son said just last night that I should designate one day a week to fast from the Internet. I picked Monday, because that's when House comes on. <em>Musing's last blog post..<a href='http://musing.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/if-a-cluttered.html' rel="nofollow">If a cluttered desk equals a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk equal?</a></em> How uncanny. My son said just last night that I should designate one day a week to fast from the Internet. I picked Monday, because that’s when House comes on.

Musing’s last blog post..If a cluttered desk equals a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk equal?

]]> By: Riayn http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-755 Riayn Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:17:17 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-755 Chris: I really didn't see it that way. The movement is set up by techno geeks. They aren't saying the internet is bad, but their constant need to always be online is. Some people can take things like being online or watching TV to the extreme where it is all they ever do and in doing so neglect their family and friends. It is like alcohol. In itself alcohol is not a bad thing, but when someone drinks to excess and it controls their lives, then it is. The internet is the same thing, when you neglect the people in your life by your constant need to be online, then problems will occur. It is not the medium that is at fault, but the addiction to it. <em>Riayn's last blog post..<a href='http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/' rel="nofollow">Digital Day of Rest</a></em> Chris: I really didn’t see it that way. The movement is set up by techno geeks. They aren’t saying the internet is bad, but their constant need to always be online is. Some people can take things like being online or watching TV to the extreme where it is all they ever do and in doing so neglect their family and friends. It is like alcohol. In itself alcohol is not a bad thing, but when someone drinks to excess and it controls their lives, then it is. The internet is the same thing, when you neglect the people in your life by your constant need to be online, then problems will occur. It is not the medium that is at fault, but the addiction to it.

Riayn’s last blog post..Digital Day of Rest

]]> By: Riayn http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-754 Riayn Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:38:57 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-754 Melissa: I totally agree spending the evening offline just to watch TV is a waste. That's why I can't do the 52 Nights Unplugged. Unplugged night is a Thursday and Thursdays are SVU. Marilyn: I really like the idea of AA for Internet Addicts. However, I could never disconnect for any real length of time. Just way too hard. Kathy: Oh dear, you really do have it bad, don't you? You are definitely a candidate for IAA - Internet Addicts Anonymous. <em>Riayn's last blog post..<a href='http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/' rel="nofollow">Digital Day of Rest</a></em> Melissa: I totally agree spending the evening offline just to watch TV is a waste. That’s why I can’t do the 52 Nights Unplugged. Unplugged night is a Thursday and Thursdays are SVU.

Marilyn: I really like the idea of AA for Internet Addicts. However, I could never disconnect for any real length of time. Just way too hard.

Kathy: Oh dear, you really do have it bad, don’t you? You are definitely a candidate for IAA - Internet Addicts Anonymous.

Riayn’s last blog post..Digital Day of Rest

]]> By: Chris Boese http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-753 Chris Boese Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:31:14 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-753 Here's my difficulty with this idea: The internet itself is cast as bad, the medium being lumped together with what is ON the medium. To me, it is the equivalent of saying I have to go one night a week without reading a book, magazine, newspaper, toothpaste tube, junk mail, bills, bank statement. Why would anyone demand any human go cold turkey OFF the written word?! In short, they wouldn't. Yet the same written words that live in print now live online, and are actually done one better. Libraries. We love libraries. Libraries are like oatmeal, good for you. Public service announcements tell kids to go to the library and read books! OK, so tell me, what is the Internet but on GREAT BIG LIBRARY?! Soooo, libraries are good, except when they are online, then they are bad? The card catalog online works better and faster than the card catalogs in libraries, so why shouldn't I use the better library to find the texts I am seeking? I enrich my life in innumerable ways in the vast online library, so that my use of library materials has had a NET INCREASE with the advent of the Internet, and now people are somehow telling me this is bad?! Further, there are many technological forces in our society that isolate us from social interactions with human beings. Women used to wash clothes with communal contact, pre-automatic washers and driers (with a lot more physical labor as well). Meals used to be communal affairs in homes, not restaurant and take-out places. Homes had front porches, and in the evening, people went out into their porch or walked in their neighborhoods, to talk and wave to other people on their porches. AND people played board games, met for coffee or drinks, went bowling, did all kinds of things, where now they plant their asses ALONE in front of an isolating boob tube. Yet somehow TPTB assume that Internet interactions are MORE socially isolating than television passivity. There are no powerful movements insisting that we have to go off TV cold turkey, but there are movements insisting that those of us who find active social interactions online are warped and isolated human beings. They are angry. They want us to get off the Internet and go back to plotzing our isolated selves in front of the boob tube, like we are supposed to do. And THAT is the key. The whole point is that the sleeper is awakening online, and that is the MOST threatening thing TPTB (marketers especially) can imagine. So those forces will do everything they can to put the sleeper back into the stupor. If you don't like it, they'll diagnose you with a psychological disorder and give you anti-depressants, make you feel like a freak, because you like libraries and connecting with human beings instead of a mass media controlled programming feed. LOL! Chris Here’s my difficulty with this idea: The internet itself is cast as bad, the medium being lumped together with what is ON the medium.

To me, it is the equivalent of saying I have to go one night a week without reading a book, magazine, newspaper, toothpaste tube, junk mail, bills, bank statement.

Why would anyone demand any human go cold turkey OFF the written word?! In short, they wouldn’t.

Yet the same written words that live in print now live online, and are actually done one better. Libraries. We love libraries. Libraries are like oatmeal, good for you. Public service announcements tell kids to go to the library and read books!

OK, so tell me, what is the Internet but on GREAT BIG LIBRARY?!

Soooo, libraries are good, except when they are online, then they are bad? The card catalog online works better and faster than the card catalogs in libraries, so why shouldn’t I use the better library to find the texts I am seeking? I enrich my life in innumerable ways in the vast online library, so that my use of library materials has had a NET INCREASE with the advent of the Internet, and now people are somehow telling me this is bad?!

Further, there are many technological forces in our society that isolate us from social interactions with human beings. Women used to wash clothes with communal contact, pre-automatic washers and driers (with a lot more physical labor as well). Meals used to be communal affairs in homes, not restaurant and take-out places. Homes had front porches, and in the evening, people went out into their porch or walked in their neighborhoods, to talk and wave to other people on their porches.

AND people played board games, met for coffee or drinks, went bowling, did all kinds of things, where now they plant their asses ALONE in front of an isolating boob tube.

Yet somehow TPTB assume that Internet interactions are MORE socially isolating than television passivity. There are no powerful movements insisting that we have to go off TV cold turkey, but there are movements insisting that those of us who find active social interactions online are warped and isolated human beings. They are angry. They want us to get off the Internet and go back to plotzing our isolated selves in front of the boob tube, like we are supposed to do.

And THAT is the key. The whole point is that the sleeper is awakening online, and that is the MOST threatening thing TPTB (marketers especially) can imagine. So those forces will do everything they can to put the sleeper back into the stupor. If you don’t like it, they’ll diagnose you with a psychological disorder and give you anti-depressants, make you feel like a freak, because you like libraries and connecting with human beings instead of a mass media controlled programming feed.

LOL!

Chris

]]> By: Kathy http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-752 Kathy Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:30:33 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-752 Hi, my name is Kathy and I'm an internet junkie. I don't know if I could skip a night voluntarily. But I did have to do it once INvoluntarily when my ISP killed my connection. But luckily, I had my smart phone and could still check email. It was a sad scene, me on the couch in the faint glow of that tiny screen. Someone please help me. <em>Kathy's last blog post..<a href='http://www.junkdrawerblog.com/2008/04/think-my-junk-drawer-is-too-neat.html' rel="nofollow">Think My Junk Drawer is Too Neat?</a></em> Hi, my name is Kathy and I’m an internet junkie. I don’t know if I could skip a night voluntarily. But I did have to do it once INvoluntarily when my ISP killed my connection. But luckily, I had my smart phone and could still check email. It was a sad scene, me on the couch in the faint glow of that tiny screen. Someone please help me.

Kathy’s last blog post..Think My Junk Drawer is Too Neat?

]]> By: Marylin http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-751 Marylin Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:18:40 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-751 ooh I just don't know if I could do it... Maybe if the AA for internet addicts was around it wouldn't be so bad. ;) <em>Marylin's last blog post..<a href='http://alittlespaceforme.com/2008/04/18/im-hai/' rel="nofollow">I'm Hai!</a></em> ooh I just don’t know if I could do it…

Maybe if the AA for internet addicts was around it wouldn’t be so bad. ;)
Marylin’s last blog post..I’m Hai!

]]> By: Melissa http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-750 Melissa Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:38:42 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-750 I would have no trouble staying off the computer for a night, but I don't know what I'd do with that time. It probably wouldn't be worth it. If I wanted to use that time to get work done like paying bills I'd have to get on the computer again ;) I wouldn't want to do overall chores (cleaning up, organizing, laundry) at that time because I'd be tired and winding down. So I'd probably watch tv or sleep. -Which really isn't much better than being online! <em>Melissa's last blog post..<a href='http://partofeverything.blogspot.com/2008/04/caught-up-on-comments.html' rel="nofollow">Caught Up On Comments</a></em> I would have no trouble staying off the computer for a night, but I don’t know what I’d do with that time. It probably wouldn’t be worth it. If I wanted to use that time to get work done like paying bills I’d have to get on the computer again ;) I wouldn’t want to do overall chores (cleaning up, organizing, laundry) at that time because I’d be tired and winding down. So I’d probably watch tv or sleep. -Which really isn’t much better than being online!

Melissa’s last blog post..Caught Up On Comments

]]> By: Riayn http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-749 Riayn Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:33:39 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-749 Leigh: I totally agree with you. I couldn't stick to it being the same one day a week. I mean what if something interesting happens that I just have to twitter or blog about. <em>Riayn's last blog post..<a href='http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/' rel="nofollow">Digital Day of Rest</a></em> Leigh: I totally agree with you. I couldn’t stick to it being the same one day a week. I mean what if something interesting happens that I just have to twitter or blog about.

Riayn’s last blog post..Digital Day of Rest

]]> By: Leigh http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/digital-day-of-rest/#comment-748 Leigh Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:37:51 +0000 http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org/?p=205#comment-748 I could, and sometimes do. But I couldn't say, Every Tuesday night your not allowed online. I'm not good at doing as I'm told..especially when its myself LOL <em>Leigh's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crazymeezer/~3/272068602/' rel="nofollow">Cupcakes for dinner</a></em> I could, and sometimes do. But I couldn’t say, Every Tuesday night your not allowed online. I’m not good at doing as I’m told..especially when its myself LOL

Leigh’s last blog post..Cupcakes for dinner

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