Sun down to sunrise
Dance all night
We gonna dance all night
Dance all night to this DJ..."
Wake up. Slide my Iphone to shut off Paul Oakenfold's "Starry Eyed Surprise". Random alarm music? Why yes, it's my specialty.
I open my computer and put a nice "Good Morning!" playlist on 8tracks.com. I get ready for my day and as I go to class I get a text from my boyfriend. We go to different schools, but we're always talking.
I remove myself from technology and go to class. As soon as I get out I check my e-mail. I get a notification saying someone favorited my tweet so I check twitter, all 3 of my accounts.
Go to the gym. No internet usage but there's tv's in front of the treadmills. I like to watch soccer games because I don't need to actually hear it.
As I walk home after the gym I notice I haven't checked my Facebook all day. My best friend from home sent me a message! Oh how I miss them...
When I get home I listen to Pandora as I shower. Nothing like a good concert for myself.
I check my e-mail again. This time mysju account and thehawknews gmail account too. I upload recent sports scores in The Hawk's website.
I call my mom. She tells me she likes how the shirt she bought me looks on me. (She saw it on Facebook).
I have dinner. One of my roommates baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and we eat them at our living room while watching TV. This is my favorite moment of the day. When my roommates (all 7 of them) and I just relax at the living room. Sometimes we watch TV, and sometimes it serves as background noise for our conversation. Granted, many of us have our Iphones glued to our hands, but we show each other funny tweets and instagrams that we find.
Digital media definitely is a big part of my life. Since I was a growing up, I always found technology fascinating. I would play in Microsoft's paint and make graphs in Excel about nothing in particular.
Now, I like to embrace digital media but above all understand it. In my opinion it is very hard to avoid using it because it is how the world communicates. For example, to talk to my mom in Puerto Rico or my best friend in DC it's important to have these technologies.
Yet, I think it's important to reflect how often we use digital media and in what ways it affects us. We need to understand how it limits us and how it empowers us. Most importantly, we need to understand that digital media is always changing so it's something we need to think about often.
I think it is great that you are able to recognize all the social media that you consume on a daily basis but remain true to the fact that you NEED social media in your life. I think the fact that social media is helping you hold together many relationships - with your mom, your friends, your boyfriend, etcetera.
ReplyDeleteI totally commend you for using all the good in social media without being overcome with the negative aspects. All the power to you... I wish I was able to utilize all the good aspects of social media the way you do. However, I am so overwhelmed with social media that I am not always able to do so.
I #identify.
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