This is gonna spark plenty of ideas. Thank you

Excellent advice. I ended up tidying my studio. I did not quite abandon technology though. But as yourself, I did some arty work, but it was on photoshop-  as a kind of play. I retouched an old magazine cover.

Perhaps I should have gone out into the nature or gone for a drive in my MX5 or something. Never mind, Steemit is back again ;)
But perhaps tomorrow I will upvote a tree in the forest behind my house  :=)

Being addicted to technology is exactly what is happening to our young people. Also the old farts too. In our house, we haven't watched Tv in almost two years. We don't listen to regular newscasts on the radio. We don't have smartphones - only stupid phones. We are not connected to facebook, youtube or twitter. We are connected to the internet obviously, but we choose when and where. My sons make their living on the internet, but when family time and vacations come around that means a vacation from the internet too. 
I guess that makes my family weird by todays standards. I prefer to think of us as being free of technological ties...

I am hooked. But it feels so good.

This reminds me of a line from [Naval Ravikant](https://twitter.com/naval/status/908754922333540353) I read recently:

>This may be the last generation that has a powerful tool like the Internet, and the focused attention span to do deep work.

Lucky for me I didn't know Steemit had been down until reading about it after the fact.

_What did you do when Steemit was not available?_
I paniced
went into a psyschoic rages, broke things...got drunk...
went to sleep..

kidding..
mostly.

I was actually taking/needing a break around the same time this bappened so it was perfect.

If Steemit did not involve billions of dollars I would certainly swim on the beach, have a beer and watch the girls go by ... but, the reality is different and contrary to facebook, instagram and etc ... here we have to worry even friend .

Amazing job @denmarkguy  Followed...

I read a book, took a walk, called a friend. It was a great day to be without steemit. i miss reading books.  I have learned to spend my Sundays preplaning my post to give me extra time during the week.

You are right, Most people are just glued to their screens and so am i. When steemit was down i was refreshing the page every 5 minutes waiting for it to get back up. I will remember what you have written, and try to use it for good. I really liked your post. @lillieskold

We do rely so much on working functionality, and we simple think " it must work " and ask ourselves Why is it not working..... and indeed it should work, we are used to it...... unfortunately sometimes it do fail.. and we cant solve it.... so indeed refresh after refresh.... addicted ??? YES ...

My personal take on the nature of technologies today...

Apart from education in schools, all computers (and smartphones), would be better with an 18 yr old age restriction.

Preventing the early 'programming' of young minds, would change their lives drastically- In a good way.

These devices stop kids from playing, and developing the brain in a way that we have done since,  well, forever. 
Without playing, they become 'mal-developed' adults 

(imo)

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please follow me and upvote me

man its still laggy idk why maybe only me ?

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Wow! I didn't know Steemit was down. I decided after I joined this wonderful platform for amazing voices that I was not going to get hung up in getting followers or upvotes. I'm here for the conversation. I'm in a very rural setting and off grid, so the weather, the season, and sustainability "chores" limit any intensity I might have. Smartphone connection 4G LTE has only been available here in rural forest for a few years and is not reliable.  I do own and manage a very small online business and I am an author and sporadic website blogger. But at my age I just want to live in this present moment.  However my past experience does make me very sympathetic to those effected to the unexpected and unwanted "downtime".