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Digital ‘sabbatical’ for a week—Can you do it?

Statistics show that your typical smartphone owner spends 1.7 hours per day social networking. They check their phones about 46 times per day to Facebook, Tweet, email, text, ignore people and play games. In the U.S., for example, 61 percent of the population owns a smartphone – that was according to Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

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