The Provost of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology recently decided to propose that the university take a week-long hiatus from using social media. It's hard for us to imagine what that might be like, but think about how different your week might be if you weren't able to use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media tools.
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What if one day Facebook, Twitter and Instant Messenger just weren't there?
Provost Eric Darr of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania tells NPR's Guy Raz that he wanted his students to not only think about this question, but live it.
"Often there are behaviors, habits, ways we use technology that we may ourselves not even be able to articulate because we're not aware of them," Darr says.
So this week, Darr will enforce a campus-wide social media blackout — no Facebook, no Twitter, no instant messaging — nothing.
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