The uprising against social media has certainly begun. We are becoming far more conscientious about our digital downtime as digital addictions become more and more pervasive. Last week we reported on 99 Days of Freedom, an online study to see how life would improve should we give up Facebook for just over three months. We can all see the benefits but FOMO has stopped us signing up.

The Chinatown Experiment is a storefront dedicated to popups in Vancouver. One of its most recent popups was the Faraday Café who are really upping the ante (social-media) by taking the decision out of visitors hands. They have completely enclosed the café in mesh that shields electromagnetic signals - completely blocking any Wi-Fi - making phones and laptops socially redundant. The idea was to promote digital downtime, encouraging visitors to take a break from their devices and engage with their surroundings. The tech free zone also held evenings of meditative enquiry and discussions on disconnecting the city.

Not only does the café offer people a moment to switch off but also prevents the bad etiquette we so often see at tables. Parisien bar L’isolé also shares the sentiment enforcing a strict no-Facebook, no-Twitter policy. We're expect this ethos to become increasingly commonplace.