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.