Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

I definitely find my time to be away from my phone because I think that's important, but when it comes to work and friends, I feel like everything is on my phone. I'll, like, leave my phone in my room for a few hours when I need my space.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.

I try to stay away from the Internet.

We're all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.

The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

I think that it's really important to step back and to take breaks as a digital creator because every other kind of platform is kind of set up to have seasons or time off or at least a barrier between creator and consumer. You have these set-up boundaries.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

I don't use the Internet, as I don't like living with lots of distractions. I have tried, but I found it a hindrance. as my sense of priorities goes out of the window and it pulls me out of my writing, particularly with email. I'd sit there for hours just replying to emails.

I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.