{"id":16997,"date":"2024-12-27T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/my-holidays-were-blighted-by-moany-voicenotes-so-i-imposed-a-whatsapp-ban-with-mixed-results-poorna-bell\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:37:52","slug":"my-holidays-were-blighted-by-moany-voicenotes-so-i-imposed-a-whatsapp-ban-with-mixed-results-poorna-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/my-holidays-were-blighted-by-moany-voicenotes-so-i-imposed-a-whatsapp-ban-with-mixed-results-poorna-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"My holidays were blighted by moany voicenotes, so I imposed a Whatsapp ban \u2013 with mixed results | Poorna Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incessant notifications make me pine for the days when staying in touch required greater effort<\/p>\n

Though my internal age is set to about 28, the time when I feel profoundly 43 is when I get nostalgic for things rendered obsolete by technology. One of those things was being able to go on holiday without being continually contacted, because the price of sending a text message was the same as a glass of wine. WhatsApp has obliterated that.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, I\u2019ve noticed how much harder it has been to switch off as a result of the incessant flow of information. I have walked in the Polish countryside foraging for mushrooms under a crisp blue sky, while listening to a friend\u2019s voice note<\/a> about their work worries in minute detail. After I spent a glorious day out with my 10-year-old niece in Barcelona, eating dumplings and buying stickers, a friend decided to share a non-urgent but emotionally difficult update about a mutual friend\u2019s bad health. While I was in the Maldives, after I had watched a stingray glide below me in a cobalt-blue ocean, a cousin sent me a rundown of a date where the guy had sneezed all over her food.<\/p>\n

Poorna Bell is a freelance journalist and author of Chase the Rainbow<\/p>\n

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\nThe incessant notifications make me pine for the days when staying in touch required greater effort
\nThough my internal age is set to about 28, the time when I feel profoundly 43 is when I get nostalgic for things rendered obsolete by technology. One of those things was being able to go on holiday without being continually contacted, because the price of sending a text message was the same as a glass of wine. WhatsApp has obliterated that.
\nOver the past year, I\u2019ve noticed how much harder it has been to switch off as a result of the incessant flow of information. I have walked in the Polish countryside foraging for mushrooms under a crisp blue sky, while listening to a friend\u2019s voice note about their work worries in minute detail. After I spent a glorious day out with my 10-year-old niece in Barcelona, eating dumplings and buying stickers, a friend decided to share a non-urgent but emotionally difficult update about a mutual friend\u2019s bad health. While I was in the Maldives, after I had watched a stingray glide below me in a cobalt-blue ocean, a cousin sent me a rundown of a date where the guy had sneezed all over her food.
\nPoorna Bell is a freelance journalist and author of Chase the Rainbow Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The incessant notifications make me pine for the days when staying in touch required greater effort Though my internal age is set to about 28, the time when I feel profoundly 43 is when I get nostalgic for things rendered obsolete by technology. One of those things was being able to go on holiday without …<\/p>\n

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