Narrative Essay On Media Fast
Life Without Worrying About Battery Percentage “I know exactly what I’m going to post as my status when I go on facebook,” was the main thought racing through my head during my media fast. When being asked to observe this fast, I seriously thought that my opinion wouldn’t change about the time I spend on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter. Yes, I did know that I spent a good chunk of my time on these various website, but this media fast truly opened my hazel eyes and taught me precisely how a big of a chunk it was. I always hear my mother state that she isn’t addicted to smoking and smoking “two or three cigarettes a day doesn’t mean I’m a smoker.” Before this project, I thought that going on Facebook just a couple of times a day was not an addiction, but now, I realize it was an addiction, and I am a recovering from Facebooker.
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To me, it was all of the social networking sites, including, but not limited too, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, and Tumblr. However, for the sake of the experiment, I tried not to use my phone to just see how I would react to what I thought were awkward moments of life. Ten minutes into my media fast, I liked someone status on Facebook. After realizing what I had just done, I took a moment to think what Susan Maushart, author of The Winter of Disconnect, would say and I believe her response would, “Simplify!” I knew what I had to do; I had to get rid of even the possibility of going on the applications, and that’s exactly what I did. On my iPhone, I deleted all my social media applications and reused an extension, StayFocusd, I had used a while back; you give the extension specific websites and they block that entire website and there is no way around it. Now with even the slightest possibility of me going on these social media sites out of sight and out of mind, I could start my media fast…
To me, it was all of the social networking sites, including, but not limited too, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, and Tumblr. However, for the sake of the experiment, I tried not to use my phone to just see how I would react to what I thought were awkward moments of life. Ten minutes into my media fast, I liked someone status on Facebook. After realizing what I had just done, I took a moment to think what Susan Maushart, author of The Winter of Disconnect, would say and I believe her response would, “Simplify!” I knew what I had to do; I had to get rid of even the possibility of going on the applications, and that’s exactly what I did. On my iPhone, I deleted all my social media applications and reused an extension, StayFocusd, I had used a while back; you give the extension specific websites and they block that entire website and there is no way around it. Now with even the slightest possibility of me going on these social media sites out of sight and out of mind, I could start my media fast…