ARIA WALLACE IS GOING OLD SCHOOL!
WATCH THE TEEN STAR GO 40 DAYS VIRTUALLY TECH FREE!
How would a typical teenager get through the day without a cell phone? How about a rising teen star? In a digitally-distracted world where teens text rather than talk, 12-year-old Nickelodeon star Aria Wallace (of the Roxy Hunter movie series and iCarly fame) has challenged herself to find out. For 40 days, Wallace will be “Going Old School,” in conjunction with the Temptation Series to encourage kids to put down the cell phone and log off of the social networks to communicate in real time.
THE DETAILS
From October 12 through November 20, 2009, Wallace will be stripped of her cell phone and texting privileges and limited to only a few minutes a day online for school and business related work. “Aria Wallace is Going Old School: Unplugged for 40 Days,” will be documented with daily video diaries and blog entries at http://blog.ariawallace.com . To syndicate this content, the RSS feed is available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ariawallaceblog.
“The Temptation Series has inspired me to help promote real-time communication!” exclaimed Wallace. “I want to take teens back to the days when we had face-to-face interaction and expressed emotions in person! Teens today need to know how awesome it is to actually see emotions rather than an emoticon, and be able to laugh instead of just saying LOL!”
“Aria Wallace is Going Old School: Unplugged for 40 Days,” will consist of the following rules;
(1) No cell phone use or texting
(2) Home phone use for 10 minutes per day
(3) Payphones are allowed
(4) No social networking
(5) Internet use is limited to daily blog/vlog and schoolwork as necessary
The Temptation Series has teamed up with Los Angeles based social media strategists, SocialNotions to execute the 40-Day Challenge. For more information on this digital marketing and social media agency, please visit www.socialnotions.com .
About half of American children 12 and older have cell phones¹, and more than half of American kids ages 12-15 use social networking websites². Let's see if Aria can survive this challenge...log on to find out www.ariawallace.com/blog/?page_id=2
