That's a fair way of describing it. A couple of years back I had a facebook account, a nice iPhone 4 and an Android tablet and did most of my social organisatio

That's a fair way of describing it. A couple of years back I had a facebook account, a nice iPhone 4 and an Android tablet and did most of my social organisation and communication through them. Everywhere I went I had one device or another attached to my face or hands permanently. I got anxious if the internet was patchy and went particularly batshit when my ADSL line was down for 2 days resorting to cracking the neighbour's speedtouch router password and using that. Totally fucked up situation so I fixed it one afternoon. Today, I have a fastmail box that gets about 2-5 emails a day that I read once a week, a single static web page and a £20 Nokia that I don't actually even know where it is as the battery is flat. Work happens elsewhere via RDP and no corporate phone any more. Life is good. The transition from one to the other was initiated by a sudden realisation that I wasn't actually doing anything any more other than piping crap into someone else's product and that I wasn't productive or useful and that my family were suffering. I was like a hamster running in a wheel. Getting rid of this was hard and could be considered like a drug addict going cold turkey as you say, so spot on. I felt ill for a couple of weeks. Then it wore off suddenly. Now I just have to lever my wife off it...