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March 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Social media has become ingrained in our daily lives, so much so that it can become overwhelming. Therefore, we decided to ask our readers: Why do you want to disconnect from social media for the next two weeks?
We received over 80 responses, all of which were fascinating and fun to read. Many people explained that they would like to see if their Facebook friends would keep in touch offline. Others said they wanted to see what they would do with the extra time not spent surfing the Internet.
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After reading through all the responses, Mashable selected five finalists to participate in the Two Week Social Media Disconnect Challenge.
These five finalists have confirmed their participation in the challenge and are ready to dive in.
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1. Javier Tuiran
Javier is a young digital journalist and community manager, among other things. He wants to disconnect for two weeks to discover how he’ll share his ideas and opinions with out social media.
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Since the only way to regulate this challenge is by way of the honor system, we leave it up to finalists not to engage in social media for the duration of the challenge period. We aren’t going to be the social media police — we expect the finalists to be honest during this two-week timeframe. That being said, feel free to let us know if you find any suspicious activity on their social profiles.
The challenge will start Wednesday, March 14 at 12:00 a.m. ET and will end Wednesday, March 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
In our challenge, disconnecting from social media limits participants to: emailing, SMS texting and content consumption via a news site or an embed video. This means participants are not allowed to create or share content. Actions like writing blog posts, uploading videos, commenting, Liking, posting status updates, sharing, checking in, playing social games, text and video chatting, or anything related to those actions are not allowed.
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