This week’s challenge was to monitor how much time we spend on our phones and to monitor what we do on our phones. I know I spend too much time on my phone and I literally spend too much time specifically on Instagram. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is to check my notifications and to check my instagram. This shouldn’t be the case because this tells my mind the first images I see in the morning is of instagram. I can relate to the reading ‘I am an Addict” because I feel at times that I depend way too much on instagram and texting to make my day go by smoothly. God forbid I leave my phone at home, I think I wouldn’t know what to do with myself but I also feel as if I’ll get a lot of work done because I won’t be tempted to text or to check. I monitored my activity on my phone and found that even when I just refreshed my instagram feed, I still notice that I still keep refreshing and scrolling. I think that our generation can become too attached to our phones and we can’t imagine what life is and was like before phones.
Milagros’ Post for 11/6
I decided to reflect on “I am an Addict” reading for this week. Once I started to read the abstract portion of the reading, I really was intrigued with what the rest of the reading was going to touch base on because a lot of people really just neglect the fact that social media and the use of internet is addicting and honestly effects us as human beings. “This reflects a dialectical struggle to make sense of their lived experiences and feelings.” (Tiidenburg, 1) This to me was the most important part of the abstract because this is an idea which were there is a struggle to understand or even to look into young people’s personal lived experiences and feelings rather than their feelings and experiences being based on what they post on their social media accounts. Yes, social media has become very influential in young adult culture and sometimes I too find myself really having to sit back and really take in what my personal experiences are and not just being behind a phone or a computer. I appreciate this reading because it also made me realize that sometimes I really do need to fast from social media and understand that social media isn’t everything.
Work Cited
Katrin Tiidenberg, Annette Markham, Gabriel Pereira, Meghan Dougherty, Mads Rehder, Ramona Dremljuga, Jannek Sommer. “I’m an Addict” and Other Sensemaking Devices: A Discourse Analysis of Self-Reflections on Lived Experience of Social Media.”
