When I bought my iphone I justified spending over $300 on it becaue it is a tool I use everyday and to me it was worth spending that money on something I carry with me 24/7. I literally sleep with the thing at night.
After reading "A Day Without Media" withoutmedia.wordpress.com I realized that I related a lot to what the students that participated in the study were saying.
They made this 'wordle' from the data they collected from the students feedback after participating in the study. The bigger words correspond to the amount of times the word was used in the students feedback, so the bigger the word the more frequently it was used.
My 24 Hour No Technology Expirience: Monday, May 21st
I realized within the first five minutes of my day that this was going to be difficult. The day started off rough because every morning I use my phone as an alarm clock, and after that I immediatly check all the notification (emails, text messages, and facebook notifications) that I have recieved throughout the night andin the morning before I woke up. So instead this morning I just immediatly turned my phone on off for the day.
It was pretty easy to go without my phone at school, but only while I was in class. I noticed that I check the time prett frequently while I'm in class on my phone. I also use my phone as a watch/clock outside of class which was one of the most annoying things is I was always wondering what time it was, so I had to run around looking for a clock.
Another thing that was rather annoying is that when I go to work study I usually do homework in the office their on the computer, checking my blackboard and my school email or working on my blog or online portfolio, but instead today I caught up on some of my reading from my textbook sine I ouldn't use the computer.
I also use the internet to look up the bus schedules so I know when to get on the bus from school, so today I just walked to the bus stop and hoped that a bus would be coming by soon luckily one was within the next 5 mintues so I didn't hav to wait to long.
When I got home at 6 was when things got really difficult it was rainy and gross outside so Ididn';t wanna do anything that involved the outdoors and music and tv and the internet were not options of entertainmnet, so decided to go to the store and get some grocery shopping out of the way. I finished tha that got home at around 8 and than made dinner so it's like 9 now which leaves me about 3 hours before I go to bed. I do so much stuf to music it really limited what I wanted to do. I thought about cleaning but that's no fun unless you have the stero blasting.
I decided the best way to fill this time was to hang out with people, but with no phone and facebook it felt impossible to get a hold of anyone. I warned some friends about this expirment and let them know that something like this might happen so I just showed up at their place and played board games till it was time for bed.
Overall the day sucked in my opinion it was nice to be phoneless and away from the responsibilties, but overall I think I'd like to keep my technology.
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