I disengage sometimes usually if I go camping or while I spending time with family for special occasions or holidays. It feels good to do that and be off the grid. I think everyone needs to disconnect so they can connect to the other things in life they are probably missing out on.
I use to be in the Facebook trap scrolling down the feeds but I had an incident where a hacker got into my account. I quit and looking back that was probably the best thing that could have happened. Now I'm rarely on social media and it has allowed me to do more meaningful things with my time.
Now there does need to be a balance of course because many things rely on technology. For some it may mean less time on the couch watching TV and also less time buried on the phone. People need to get on thier feet to be better physically and engage in real communication to be better mentally.
It's a good practice to have that you have the time to disconnect with your gadgets. A lot of us these days are hooked on the internet and often forget about the connection that we need to foster offline.
I grew up heavily around gadget and internet that I think sometimes it's too much. A lot of our societal problem also stems from it and at this point, unfortunately there's hardly a way out of it.
I grew up before everybody had cellular phones. Now even young kids have them. I think you may have nailed it on the head with stating there's hardly no way out of it. I can see it being very difficult for those who know of no other way of functioning without the gadgets. Maybe a world day of no gadgets or a week of gadget awareness would be a good proposal??
That would be a good proposal to have 😁 It would be interesting to see more people and younger ones do that.