Technology Fast 2012

As part of E-Marketing class, lecturer Colin Cooney issued a demanding challenge to us, to participate in a 72 hour technology fast. The fast was to restrain from using the internet, mobile or email services for the stated period. “OMG how am I going to do this one” I thought.

With society submerged in the depths of the technology revolution, people have became increasingly reliant on technology to live and run their social and working lives, for example; facebook has approximately 500 million registered users about 100 million less than QQ in China. Many believe that society has almost become slaves or addicts to the “stuff”. Technology fasts are becoming extremely popular and are sometimes conducted to assess the reactions of the participants.

 

Regarding my 72 hour fast, I believe I was successful in doing so!. However, I also believe that the success was solely down to the time it fell on. At the same period as the fast, I was participating and representing DKIT in the 2012 IHI Business Management Games that permitted all contestants from using a mobile phone and any communication devices such as email or social media. I had no choice but to use the internet as it was required for research proposes for the game. Anyway, we did not have to fast from all three forms of technology, so I managed two of them which weren’t so bad.

I would consider myself to be fairly depended on technology in general and would have found it extremely hard to restrain myself from the suggested forms of technology for the requested length of time.  I must say that I am proud of myself for fasting from email and mobile phones for the lenght for time that I did. Happy Days!!!