逃離社交網絡

????因此，今年夏天，我決定探尋這項技術對我日常生活的影響。為了減少獲取社交信息，我為自己制定了如下規定：

????-- 常規工作日的上午9點到下午6點半之間查收工作郵件和私人郵件。

????-- 還可以通過工作電話和手機聯系到我。在家里，我準備把電話安在廚房里，那里預留了一個放座機的地方。（2003年6月我扔掉了電話。）

????-- 任何時候都不登陸社交服務。

????-- 任何時候都不使用即時通信服務。

????-- 不發短信。

????逃離社交媒體的過程比我預想的要困難。比如說，社交服務不會像我的電子郵件那樣提供假期自動回復；畢竟我們一旦有段時間不用它，就可能將它棄之不用。同樣，我的社交信息訂閱支持著我在網上的許多活動——從在網飛（Netflix）上看電影到使用Seamless訂餐。試著把這些事情與網絡分離是件可怕的事情。此外，社交不僅是社交，它對我的工作也至關重要。毫無疑問，在本月重要的商業會議之前，我會渴望使用LinkedIn，就像我去年夏天嘗試在晨間咖啡時間里戒掉對咖啡因的渴望一樣。那種感覺不會好受的。

????但我計劃在這一過程中做下記錄，借此更加了解自己——同樣重要的是，了解這些我使用的社交技術。我將在本月底分享這些想法。我也期待聽到你們對于類似體驗的想法。如果對此事還有其他關注，可以通過“蝸牛”郵件寄給我……（財富中文網）

????譯者：嚴匡正?

????So this summer, I'm choosing instead to explore the impact of this technology on my routine. I have constructed a set of somewhat arbitrary rules to cut down on my social intake:

????-- I will be available over both work and personal email between 9am and 6:30pm, the hours in a basic work day.

????-- I will also be available on my work phone and my cell phone. At home, I plan to leave my phone in the kitchen, in the area once reserved for a landline. (I ditched mine in June 2003.)

????-- I will not be available at any time on any social service.

????-- I won't be available over any instant messaging service.

????-- I will not text.

????It's harder than I thought to figure out how to disengage. For one, social services have no incentive to offer vacation responders in the way that my email does; after all, once we leave for a brief period, we may not come back. Also, my social feeds provide the backbone for many of the tasks that I do online -- from watching movies on Netflix (NFLX) to ordering food through Seamless. Trying to decouple the tasks from the networks is daunting. And: Social is not just social. It's critical to my work life. I have no doubt I will long for LinkedIn (LNKD) before important business meetings this month in the same way that I craved caffeine when I tried to give up my morning coffee last summer. It won't be pretty.

????But, I plan to keep notes on the process, and I hope to learn a bit more about myself -- and as important, about these social technologies I cover -- in the process. I'll share these thoughts at month's end. And I'll look forward to hearing your thoughts on any similar journeys. Extra attention goes to the letters I receive by snail mail ...