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Now More Than Ever, You Need to Put Down Your Phone

It’s almost quaint to think of what the internet was like was back in 2008, the first time Lifehacker recommended making it a practice to “unplug” from computers and smartphones one night a week, every week. Back then, Twitter and Facebook were in their infancies and MySpace ruled the social media sphere, which was a far friendlier—or at least less insidious—place. Far fewer of us owned smartphone