Turn off, shut down, log out: the digital detox holiday is here
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/26/digital-detox-holidays-turn-off-shut-down-log-out
Couple on a remote beach
The trend for “digital detox” has been around in the America for some time, but the urge to go “off grid” is taking hold here too, along with a mini-boom in specialist companies looking to cash in. This month, pop star Ed Sheeran announced he was stepping off the social media bandwagon – no mobile phones, emails or Twitter for a whole year. “I find myself seeing the world through a screen and not my eyes,” he wrote (on his Instagram account, of course).
- Tanya Goodin, the founder of Time To Log Off, knows how he feels. Her eureka moment came when she realised she hadn’t read a book in four years. “I thought, wow, how did that happen? I realised it was about my attention span. My focus was gone,” she says.
- After 20 years running a digital marketing agency, she decided to break away and launch her detox company, which offers retreats in places such as Hawaii, Italy and Cornwall.
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