How long could you go unwired?
USA Today recently published one of those corny but entertaining “man on the street” stories asking people how long they can stay offline. The answers ranged from never, to one hour, to a few days.
In recent years, I suppose the longest I’ve gone offline is a week, what I call my life-changing “Montana Moment” in 2009. Since then, I’ve gone entire nights and weekends offline, but I’ll usually reach for my iPhone for sports scores and other little personal interests over the weekend (but never for work-related reasons on nights and weekends).
What about you: How long and how frequent can you stay offline? And when you do, how much of it is work-related?
Once we arrive at the resort in Mexico in 3 weeks, I plan to turn off wireless on my iPhone and use it exclusively as a GPS enabled camera. We’ll be there for 7 nights, so this should be lots of fun.
My biggest problem is reaching for the iPhone to look up stuff while I’m doing other stuff (e.g., looking up what other movies a director has made while I’m watching one of their films).