Five made difficult transition from Facebook to face-to-face communication
When the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia suggested that students in the area try giving up their cell phones, computers, iPods and video games for 10 days, David Silver didn’t think much of the idea. Live without text messages? He couldn’t do that for an hour, much less 10 days.
But David finally decided to join a group of his classmates in a grand experiment. He kissed his cell phone goodbye and, just like that, went from 14,000 text messages a month to zero. On Monday, he and his mother, Rhonda Silver, visited with TODAY’s Matt Lauer to talk about how it all turned out.
“On a scale of one to 10, how hard was this?” Lauer asked.