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Enjoying Digital Detox Week?

By pete_gallagher

If you're like us, you were probably completely unaware that this was the week we were all supposed to turn off our computers, phones and game machines as part of Digital Detox Week.

The movement is the work of anti-consumerist group Adbusters and kicked off on April 19 (it ends April 25). Adbusters writes that 'Whether it is texting, gaming, downloading or emailing, so much of our time is spent in the virtual realm.' Fortunately though, the group writes, '… the off button is easy to find.'

Ryan Van Cleave, a recovery consultant that works with ex-addicts, imparted some warnings about unplugging from the digital world cold turkey, telling the DailyBeast that the idea of Digital Detox Week is 'unimplementable' in today's connected society.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).