Twitter, I think we need to spend some time apart. Really, it’s not you, it’s me! Scrolling through the never-ending feed that is Twitter is more than a habit. It has crept into my muscle memory. More than once I’ve been watching an episode on Netflix and suddenly realized I don’t really understand what is happening because I’ve been mindlessly scanning through new tweets. Or I’ve become bored because there is a full minute until the bus arrives, so I better see what’s going on in the world.

Yesterday I got back from a five-day trip to neighboring Denmark. It was a welcome break from my thesis work, but it turned out to also be a break from something more time consuming than that.

We had rented a house in Vorupør, population 606, in the Thy National Park. It is not the end of the world, and we could of course have picked up a Danish newspaper whenever we went grocery shopping, and had World War 3 begun we would most likely have heard about it from the locals, but as it was we stayed pretty much in the dark when it came to anything outside Thy.

Let’s cut the crap: I’m a fan-boy, plain and simple. I’m an Apple fan-boy and I’m a Google fan-boy. I love the simplicity of the products they create, and for the most part everything just works. I’ve been using Gmail since 2004 when it was still in closed beta and have never felt the need to use anything else. Somehow though, it took me almost six years to realize I was using it all wrong.