Have you ever tried a digital detox

**original PM** · 5 August 2016, 13:25

I use the internet 'more than 50 times a day'

and may well check the odd app 10 times a day

but i much prefer to have a beer and a chinwag.

**Old Greg** · 5 August 2016, 13:47

I deliberately bought a poor spec phone to reduce the amount of time I spend online.

**RSoles** · 5 August 2016, 15:33

Had it forced upon me last year. I let the wife book a holiday cottage in Wales.
Spectacular place, but one tiny flaw. No Broadband, no phone, nearly no mobile coverage.
I had to pile the furniture up in one corner of the cottage to get enough mobile signal to use my phone as a wifi hotspot.

**mudskipper** · 5 August 2016, 16:03

Did 4 days on the Inca trail in 2014 without switching my phone on, and will be doing similar cycling in Cuba in a couple of months.

Occasionally I leave my phone on my desk when I go for my lunchtime walk - that's quite refreshing in itself (or was, before I started tripping over Pokemon hunters every few paces).

Have you ever tried a digital detox