For folks who have their businesses online, it’s a major big deal to go 24 hours away from the computer.

Fortunately, the girlfriend takes a rather dim view of bringing the laptop along on vacations. After getting used to the idea, I have to say – she’s right. I have a feeling I’m not the only person in the world to have figured this out. So, the whole concept “Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?” seems a bit silly to me.

Plenty of people do it, all the time. I don’t know why we need a website and a special date. Seems more like just some random publicity thing.

Thanks so much for letting us know about this. It seems like every weekend I have the intention of completely turning off the computer, but somehow I always end up back online.

This Shutdown Day will give me a good reason to mindfully stay off of the computer. It certainly helps that it’s on a Saturday.

I’m also really picky about who I give my email to, so I will do the Shutdown Day unofficially. So, technically I won’t be counted in the experiment, but it’ll still be of value to me just to get the entire day away from the computer.

It’s spring and gorgeous weather–we should all turn off our computers and get outside in the sunshine more often!

Cheers,
Sharon

Creative way to harvest email addresses… (not saying they will, but they should be stating that clearly in a privacy policy)..