Ari Herzog

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Digital Sabbaticals are Healthy

Ari Herzog

Five days after logging off Facebook to spend time with family and enjoy the other side of the country, I returned to the social networking site and observed 6 private messages and 67 notifications. The messages were pithy and not time sensitive.

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Why I Deleted 52,000+ Tweets

Ari Herzog

In addition, I was receiving frequent notifications of trolls discovering old (and now irrelevant) content and sharing it. I closed my business a few years ago and I recently shifted into elementary and secondary education. I still tweet but for different reasons.

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Thoughts on Simple Living

Ari Herzog

Messages and notifications will be there when you return. Unplug for a day, a weekend, or a month. Learn to re-enjoy life without a glowing screen. An easy way of doing this is by leaving your phone home when you take a walk. Make time for people. The person without a social life is the person who dies a hermit.

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Get Internet Voicemail from Website Visitors with SpeakPipe

Ari Herzog

Within moments of your submission of the message, I receive an email notification that someone left me a voicemail. If so, do it and come back, click the button again, and send me a short message of hello or if you have a question. I click a link and can choose between playing it on the spot and/or downloading the file to my computer.

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Social Networking In Your Face

Ari Herzog

Nobody truly knows how to define a poke, some thinking it is sexual and others thinking it is playful fun; but I can press a poke button and you, whether or not we’re friends, will get a notification you were poked. You can then ignore it or poke me back. Or poke anyone else.

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Ari Herzog

What will happen is when someone replies to your comment, you will automatically receive an email notification of your comment, the new reply, and a link if you choose to continue the conversation. Enter another WordPress plugin called ReplyMe. Effective January 8, 2011, this is now installed. Make sense?

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Thoughts on Simple Living

Ari Herzog

Messages and notifications will be there when you return. Unplug for a day, a weekend, or a month. Learn to re-enjoy life without a glowing screen. An easy way of doing this is by leaving your phone home when you go to the gym. Make time for people. The person without a social life is the person who dies a hermit.