Conclusion Blackout

  In conclusion I have determined that I have learned a big lesson from this assignment that I have been required to do. It has been interesting to see things we never see. With this I could know myself better on how I am as a person with social media. All the experiences that I live when I was not using Facebook, Instagram or Twitter make me see that in these days we depend on this new social media environment that every time, people want more of it. I really would have to work on not using too much my social media, so I can relax more and at the same time I am not going to look for my friends every 2 to 3 weeks, I am going to wait more and then I would talk with them. I really thank my professor by assigning me to this because after this I feel like I really don't have to depend at all on my social media. I have other important things to do so I would have to start changing my habits for better, instead of being aware every minute of what people have posted or which picture they have uploaded.

Social media Blackout 3

During this day that I stopped using social media and while I didn't use it,  I did several things like taking a nap, talking with my roommates, playing XBOX, going to the gym, supermarket, cleaning all my room, reading about soccer news. Looking through all the things I did make me believe when I spend time doing all these things, I don't need social media. It seemed to me that I only used or spend time on my social media when I don't have anything to do.

Spending time on social media keeps me out of stress when I have a test to take and also helps me to do something when I am not doing anything. Social media is always interesting because you are looking at new things every day. Those might be sad, happy, enjoyable and more, but I have to say that it is a bad habit to all the humans and myself too because I could recognize that we are not enjoying life the right way. The right way of enjoying life because we are using these social media apps while we are are in a conversation with a friend, when we are eating with our family, when we are in class and not paying attention to what the professor is saying. Being all the time at your phone and not having a conversation with a person is what the new generation is facing problems because they are not allowed to have a good conversation in person because they are afraid of it, which means they can only show who are they through Facebook, texting, Instagram and others. Social media is a way to connect people through another completely world than the real world; what I mean by this is that instead of wasting our time to all these social media programs we can enjoy more by just changing our habits by going outside and playing games as a normal kid or person, shopping, biking, playing sports, climbing a mountain, or hanging out with your friends. 

I determine myself to be an addicted person because after 5 p.m. I was checking Facebook every hour non-stop. I feel this happens to me either because I am nervous or I don't have anything to do. What a horrible addiction that I have and by stopping using these programs, I could realize that I can spend my time by doing more other important things than just depending on checking other people's accounts or trying to keep in touch with them. 

Social Media Blackout 2

An hour I have left so I can check all my social media. It has been very weird because I feel I have more time to do other things to do. During May I don't have many things to do, just to be aware of my English class that I am taking. Putting more effort into has stopped me by not cheking my social media.

This afternoon I promised myself that I was going to do the effort to control my anxiety at not looking at what picture people uploaded or post of this day. A good example for me was when I went to the gym and I didn't check my social media at all as I normally check it. By getting into my social media I feel like I have more time to do things and pretty much saying that my time doesn’t go that fast as it go when I am using Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Like while I was at the gym I was enjoying more while I was running and I could have more peace on my mind to think not about other rather than myself. The other thing that I experience was that right now one of the things that I am checking the most is Instagram because I have started dating this new girl and I wanted to see if she has posted any picture. I don't know why I have to check all the time on her pictures but I think is part of my world with social media that I always have to be aware of what people are doing. What I feel I have used the least is Twitter because right now that my dad has cancer the only spirit that I have is positive and I don't feel much like writing about what I am doing every moment or what have been thinking. I know people have been posting me things in Twitter saying that "I should remain positive" but it is really hard to always talk when your dad is in a hard situation.

I believe that with one day I would not see the difference between being not being connected to my friends from home and other countries. Comparing one day with one month I think there is a big difference and if I don’t connect to Facebook or Instagram for a month I would fell less connected to my friends and at the same time I would feel that I can kind of loose them because of not being connected. I feel like I have that in common in myself that I do really care to be connected with other people and that is why it matters for me to be at least say "hi, how are you" every two weeks or three to all my friends. I have the mentality that we never know what is going to happend in the future that we would might need help from that person, so it is always been important for me to be aware of them. So leaving Facebook for a week or more of course would give me peace in my mind and I would not have to be attentive to anyone but, as I said, is a must to be in contact with my friends. 

Social Media Blackout 1

        Using all the social media programs has been important in my life. Social media is a good resource to keep track on what people are doing in their lives. When I signed up with Facebook, I was playing professional tennis tournament and for me it was the best thing a person have could ever invented because in this way I was able to keep track of all my tennis friends, so I could not lose them. As I have to travel a lot because of tennis, social media was a must to check every day! When I came to college everything changed. I got injured and I had to stop playing for the TCU tennis team. All the time I was on Twitter talking about my day and how things are going, so people from my country and other countries can know what I am doing. Facebook is still a tool that I use to contact my tennis friends from other countries, but now I only use it to look up what people do or when I get bored. Talking about my social media experience, we have an assignment that consist of not using social media for 48 hours by telling about our experience through this hours. My experience with taking a break with social media taught me an major lesson. 

Yesterday, we had to stop using Facebook, Twitter and all social media but it was really hard for me by not using them. My dad has cancer at the moment and I am living through really hard things in my life and I could not stop responding to people that have been sending me messages that say: “to be positive and that everything was going to be fine." This Tuesday afternoon I left my phone on a side to see what my notifications were about looking Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. It was unbelievable; I was grabbing my phone every minute or two minutes to check if someone had posted something. It was amazing to see that I cannot live without all these programs in for less than 1 minute. I have to admit that it has been really hard for me to not used this social media programs because of my father’s cancer and that want to respond to everyone to thanks for all their words.

Right now I have not used my social media apps for 3 hours and at the same time it has been stressing, because of not having something in my fingers to type something. So, I stop using these apps, what I did was turn off my phone so I could not see any of these programs and could experience what my homework is about. In this way, I could put my stressing moments on the side so I could have a little peace in my mind.