Popular singer/songwriter John Mayer announced today that he’ll be partaking in a digital cleanse. From Jan. 1 at 9 a.m. to Jan. 8 at 9 am, he’ll be restricting his use of…technology. He insists that while we usually defrag our computers, it’d be a great idea to defrag our “mental and psychological hard drives.” According to John Mayer, technology has done our brains a disservice in the way we now handle small bursts of information via Twitter, text and email. The digital cleanse will help our brains. Read on for details of John Mayer’s Digital Cleanse.

Guidelines:

*email only from laptop or desktop computers

*cell phones can only be used to make calls, and no text messages or e-mails are allowed - if you receive a text, you must reply in voice over the phone. E-mails must be returned from a laptop or desktop computer.

*no use of Twitter or any other social networking site - this includes reading as well as posting.

*no visiting of any entertainment or gossip sites. (No need to detail which ones - you know what they are.)

Personally, given the nature of my work, I couldn’t commit to this. Would you?