Why Digital Detox?

Since late last year I have been slowly (very slowly) removing digital artefacts from a few places in my life. It partly goes hand in hand with the death plan I’m building —more on that later— and partly just a reaction to my loathing of having too much clutter, something that feels like a constant battle with a 4 year old in the house! At least my own digital artefacts are within my control. I’ve tried to explain some of my thinking about this before but ultimately whilst it was separate reasoning that got me to this point, it’s fair to say that I was irked / bothered / narked by the digital clutter I had accumulated. It was becoming an issue to be dealt with. My Detox To recap, I am: Deleting Photos and Videos, mostly duplicates or v.similar shots Deleting old blog posts that have lost meaning (if they had any in the first place) Deleting old journal entries that don’t serve a purpose (mostly me ranting about things I can’t even recall now) Changing email addresses from Gmail to my…