Show Us How You Disconnect From Your Hectic Lives

Every day, it seems our lives become more and more crowded by a new app or social networkYouTube, Facebook, Twitter and an ever-growing list of platforms demand that we check them constantly to stay in touch. The technologies that at first felt like a recreational part of our lives sometimes feel like a chore.

Media theorist Douglass Rushkoff addresses this information overload in his book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. This month, Mashable's social book club MashableReads selected Present Shock as its non-fiction pick. As we read the book this month, it's made us think about how little time we devote to disconnecting from our busy lives Read more...