After taking the time to analyze my media habits I have come to several conclusions. 1. I spend too much time reading unimportant things online.
2. I don’t realize how much time I actually spend a day wasting away online.
3. Media is amazing, but can be addictive.
4. I need to slow down my media use.
I found myself constantly surprised at how much I spend on media. My habits require me to continuously be online and “connected” to all my followers and friends on my social media profiles. It didn’t concern me at first, until I started to see the true time wasted on things that don’t do anything for me. I was surprised that I would lose track of time so easily and allow myself to continue doing it over and over again. It is an endless cycle of mind numbing social media use everyday.
I found that I had a pattern of checking media sites in a specific order. I always check my email first no matter what I’m doing, second I check twitter which leads into Facebook, next I look through my snapchat and then repeat until I’m bored and then start the cycle all over again. At first I believed that I was doing this because of some sort of habit or preferences but when I really think about it, I think it’s because of the position of my apps on my phone. There is also a pattern to how I share stories on social media. I tend to only share/retweet/and favorite certain things from specific companies. Although my might follow several companies, I tend to choose one that I always interact with.
As far as responses from friends, I always interact more intensely online with my fraternity brothers and friends from back home. I will post on their page or share their post more often than those friends who I only seem to see on Facebook but never in person. The relationship between people and myself determines how much I will interact with them on a daily bases through media. Friends who I have known the longest are always active on my post and aren’t afraid to be edgy or funny when commenting on something I have posted.
My media use was most active when I was commuting somewhere. When at home or at school, I don’t look at my social media as often partly because I keep busy. However, on my commute back to my apartment I will refresh all my media sites over and over again until something strikes me as interesting. It is mostly due to boredom. When I’m bored I go on social media sites just to realize that those are also making me bored. I think most of the use of media is for boredom. Aside from doing research for work or school, I don’t see any other point in the Internet except for when your bored.
I use new media to keep myself “interested” in what’s going on in the world, or rather in my friends and people I follows world. There isn’t much gratification except for when you find something worthwhile or are given the opportunity to connect with someone you haven’t connected with in a long time. Media is a powerful entity and can be very beneficial when used for the right reasons. For example, it is gratifying for me when I’m able to connect with my cousins in Mexico through Facebook and Skype. I get to see my nieces and nephews in Mexico grow up from far away. I use media to keep in touch and in the now with everything going on.
2. I don’t realize how much time I actually spend a day wasting away online.
3. Media is amazing, but can be addictive.
4. I need to slow down my media use.
I found myself constantly surprised at how much I spend on media. My habits require me to continuously be online and “connected” to all my followers and friends on my social media profiles. It didn’t concern me at first, until I started to see the true time wasted on things that don’t do anything for me. I was surprised that I would lose track of time so easily and allow myself to continue doing it over and over again. It is an endless cycle of mind numbing social media use everyday.
I found that I had a pattern of checking media sites in a specific order. I always check my email first no matter what I’m doing, second I check twitter which leads into Facebook, next I look through my snapchat and then repeat until I’m bored and then start the cycle all over again. At first I believed that I was doing this because of some sort of habit or preferences but when I really think about it, I think it’s because of the position of my apps on my phone. There is also a pattern to how I share stories on social media. I tend to only share/retweet/and favorite certain things from specific companies. Although my might follow several companies, I tend to choose one that I always interact with.
As far as responses from friends, I always interact more intensely online with my fraternity brothers and friends from back home. I will post on their page or share their post more often than those friends who I only seem to see on Facebook but never in person. The relationship between people and myself determines how much I will interact with them on a daily bases through media. Friends who I have known the longest are always active on my post and aren’t afraid to be edgy or funny when commenting on something I have posted.
My media use was most active when I was commuting somewhere. When at home or at school, I don’t look at my social media as often partly because I keep busy. However, on my commute back to my apartment I will refresh all my media sites over and over again until something strikes me as interesting. It is mostly due to boredom. When I’m bored I go on social media sites just to realize that those are also making me bored. I think most of the use of media is for boredom. Aside from doing research for work or school, I don’t see any other point in the Internet except for when your bored.
I use new media to keep myself “interested” in what’s going on in the world, or rather in my friends and people I follows world. There isn’t much gratification except for when you find something worthwhile or are given the opportunity to connect with someone you haven’t connected with in a long time. Media is a powerful entity and can be very beneficial when used for the right reasons. For example, it is gratifying for me when I’m able to connect with my cousins in Mexico through Facebook and Skype. I get to see my nieces and nephews in Mexico grow up from far away. I use media to keep in touch and in the now with everything going on.