So I find myself staring at this assignment: no media for twelve hours. Of course I don't want to put myself into the category of "this generation" where we have a dependency on media. So I take it on, putting my smart phone down and turning my TV off. Turns out, when you go home over Labor Day weekend it's actually pretty easy.
There I was at home, avoiding media, and actually enjoying the time with my family. I didn't care what was going on anywhere else- I just missed them. Having taken a step back, I could finally relax from the past crazy weeks of my first semester in college.
I needed to disconnect. I had just started at a new school, which equaled to a lot of overwhelming situations. In fact, the biggest lesson I had learned so far starting off new, was that technology was a detriment to my social life I was building. During sorority recruitment, sorority events, class, going to lunch, and just meeting people in the hall of my dorm, I had to be there. Honestly, college completely stripped me away from social media temporarily. A complete contrast to high school. And it was exhausting. So simply what I learned from this experience from not just the 12 hours without social media but how my life has been going recently: being part of a conversation 24/7 in person is way more exhausting and harder than being in one over social media. And that's kind of sad.
And here I am, blogging about my no media day-talk about irony.
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