Social media, whether I chose to believe it or not, is a large part of my life. It is a great time waster, and it is how I connect with a lot of my friends. I miss knowing everything that goes on during the day. It gives me something to do and something easy to talk about with friends. I don’t miss feeling constantly needing to be with my phone. I forgot my phone in my room for a few hours yesterday, and it was surprising to see how little I really needed it.
I have a couple other things I have been doing instead of using social media. I have been reading more lately which is exciting. I have been starting and restarting this book for a month now, but I have never really had the time to get involved until now. I started knitting a blanket over Christmas break so I have also been working on that more and more which is fun to see the progress I have made since the experiment has started.
So far I have only “fallen off the wagon” twice. I only half count the first time, because I did not realize it was after the starting time when I was on Twitter. The second time was just out of habit. This morning when I woke up, to really wake myself up I check my phone. I had logged onto Twitter and watched a video my friend retweeted of a four year old singing a cover of "Tonight You Belong with Me" with her dad before I remembered I was not supposed to be on it. At the end of the video, there was a promotion page for the Youtube account of this dad. On this page, there was their Facebook, their Twitter, and their Instagram account names. It was then that I realized I needed to get off the social media. This just goes to show that even this four year old girl is affected by social media, though she may not know it. People on the internet love her and her dad, and she would not know a single one of them if they came up to her on the street. Though networking through social media is very helpful, at the age of four it is not necessary.
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