I think it's nice sometimes not to be plugged in 24/7 to email and the Internet and everything else. It's nice to get away.
Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.
I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.
I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.
Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.
Time off from the news is always something I welcome.
Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.
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'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 actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.
I don't have social media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, nothing. I don't receive information. That's why my head, my face, looks younger than I really am.
I delete the Twitter app during the season.
I'm actually a big fan of turning off my phone and ignoring it for large chunks of the day.
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
I try to stay away from the Internet.
Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.
Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
A 'social media fast' is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you're simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.
The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.
After a Sunday night game, what I do is I usually wait like a day and a half before going on Twitter.
You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
