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Aug 8th 2013, 10:00, by Damon Brown

It began with the best of intentions.

When you sat down to work, you thought maybe you'd quickly check your email first. Then you remembered you needed to wish someone a happy birthday on Facebook. Then you figured you might as well log on to Twitter—just for 5 minutes. Now you suddenly realize that an hour has gone by and you're lost in a wormhole of Buzzfeed articles about the 50 Cutest Hedgehogs Wearing Hats.

hedgehog in hatthatcutesite.com
Seriously, he is not getting any work done.

While the Web can be an amazing resource for work, it's also a great source of entertainment—which can make it a serious hazard when you need to buckle down and be productive. Most people can turn off landlines, mute smartphones, and hush push notifications easily enough, but getting the World Wide Web to quiet down is a little harder.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this has led to a whole movement focused on unplugging. The Undo List, for example, can provide you with a tip sheet for taking a 24-hour tech break. An annual National Day of Unplugging occurs every March. And the clever phone-stacking game encourages diners to set their cells aside for the duration of a meal and enjoy one another's company—and whoever picks up their phone first also picks up the tab for the whole table.

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