This weekend, I invite you to celebrate a lesser-known holiday, the National Day of Unplugging. From sundown to sundown, March 23-24, people around the country will take the challenge of logging out of Facebook, ignoring their Twitter feeds, avoiding TV and yes, even putting their phones away for an entire day.
Why do we need a day like this?
A quick look around on campus is enough to see that we depend heavily on communications technology. The technology itself isn’t a bad thing. The problem lies in how attached, or even addicted, we might be to our phones, tablets and computers. As we’ve been hearing about this quite a bit in recent general conference talks, devotionals, Ensign articles and even right here in The Daily Universe, this is clearly a cause for concern.
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