These days it’s tempting to ignore the news entirely, says Ruth Whippman. But it’s essential that we stay fully engaged
The “digital detox”. It’s the new juice cleanse. In the age of constant connectivity it’s now our minds rather than our bodies that need urgent purification. According to Ofcom, the average adult internet user spends more than 20 hours a week online. Our smartphones have become tiny iron lungs, our dependence on them so total that we now can’t finish dinner or even a sentence without checking our email. Mention the word “election” on Facebook in the morning and by lunchtime you’re estranged from your entire family. It’s hardly surprising that it has become standard “wellbeing” advice that we should switch off entirely.
I have to stop myself scanning Twitter headlines while driving, during sex, talking to my kids…
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