Poll: Will You Go on a Tech Detox?

National Day of Unplugging starts this evening. Did you skin just start to itch at the idea of not checking your email or voicemail or tweeting or posting to Facebook or uploading Instagram pictures or pinning to Pinterest or …

That’s the point. Almost every aspect of life is taken over these days by technology and tiny touch screens. So the folks behind National Day of Unplugging want people to pledge to put down the electronics and log out for 24 hours, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.

National Day of Unplugging is part of Sabbath Manifesto, a project designed to slow down lives in a tech-hectic world. Organizers are calling the unplugging a “tech detox” and encouraging people to sign a pledge and pass the information along to friends and family. Via technology, of course, so you better hurry if you want to sign or share.

In place of tapping screens, Sabbath Manifesto has 10 principles, or suggestions for how to fill your time. They include the restorative (light some candles, find silence), the relationship builders (spend time with loved ones) and the indulgent (eat bread, drink wine).

But is this realistic? Posting status updates and checking phone messages is second nature for most of us. Plus, we think that reading Patch is a pretty vital daily task.

Are you going to unplug? Take our poll and discuss why you will or won’t, or can’t, unplug.