Comments on: Doing the “Digital Cleanse”: no Twitter for a week

By: Luan van

Luan van — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:47:49 +0000

Me too going for Digital cleanse for a month. No facebook, no twitter.

By: jane

jane — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:34:47 +0000

It feels so good not to be beholden to Facebook and all the many email accounts I have. I was a latecomer to social networking but when I arrived I got hooked like a fish. The trick is to live in a cave when you are as weak as I am

By: ashraf sobli

ashraf sobli — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:18:32 +0000

Matt,
I tried the same thing, inspired by 4-hours work week by Tim Ferris. He called it media fasting. I did it for 1 week and everything related to social sites were disconnected and the effect was – wow ! That week was the most productive week I’ve ever had in entire year

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:44:45 +0000

I found a great way to reduce time spent on Facebook: combine breaking your laptop’s keyboard by spilling port in it and being too lazy to get a new one.

By: Richard Dennis

Richard Dennis — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:56:49 +0000

Congrats on simplifying your life during the holidays. I believe we ALL should practice this all year long.

Continue success and enjoying the extra time.

Richard

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:58:50 +0000

Matt I can believe you put out your own trash but you do your own data entry as well?!

‘- typed in three months’ worth of data for a project that I’m working on’

I wouldn’t miss Twitter but I would miss facebook – if I didnt live so far away from so many friends it wouldnt matter biut its such a great way to stay in touch…

By: farmalin

farmalin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:23:21 +0000

hah, great idea! I am planning to perform “digital cleanse” twice a month

By: Shoptimistic

Shoptimistic — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:57:53 +0000

So if I stupidly add the wrong Twitter account, is there a way to undo that? Looks like my only option is to add another, and post tweets to both accounts.

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:01:37 +0000

I wonder whether this is one of the bad side of digital lifestyle. It is also happening to me even when I had a gathering with friends, most of them were busy updating their status on feedbook rather than enjoying the event and talking to each other . And what makes it more wierd was that it seems everybody is telling their friends on facebook about their presence at the event and they said they enjoyed it….:D. I read their status on facebook and i laughed!

By: Junaid Nazir

Junaid Nazir — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:30:34 +0000

@Dmitri

It is apparent that Matt Cutts is a very busy person with work and life in general, so that is probably the reason for the lack of a contact form on this blog, which I can understand and agree with.

However, I do feel that Google doesn’t provide an obvious way to get in touch with them about any important issue that hasn’t been covered in the standard help pages and couldn’t be answered by the help forums. We are keen to know if legitimate sites can sometimes get caught up in the Google spam filter if they have too many pages too quickly (i.e. 11+ million pages in 2-3 months), which might appear as a link farm on paper, but actually be a sizable product database in reality – potentially making a site a victim of its own success. If we knew where the official channels of contact are, we would put our question forward there, but so far it feels like the government of Google is holding its citizens at arms length.