A study published at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology Conference in Chester, in the UK reveals what we already know.

Shutting your phone off and ceasing the constant urge to update your Twitter or BookFace status, or otherwise stalk check up on your friend activity is directly linked to reducing your stress level.

Who’da thunk it?

I’m personally so completely invested in my RSS feeds, that I wonder if I’d be able to actively abstain from such things.  Even as I type this out, I’m plugged in (streaming Thrice on Pandora).  Maybe we need a techno-fast?

I mean, I’m pretty certain I survived before I had a phone for an appendage.

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Photo by Phil Campbell.

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