When
I first heard about this assignment, I was extremely excited to give it a try.
I started it on Sunday morning to Tuesday morning. I turned off my data
cellular on my Iphone and logout all my social medias that I had on my laptop.
Sometimes, I found myself turning on the laptop and had the temptation logging
into my social media accounts, but I am proud to say that I was able to make it
through those 2 days. The assignment wasn’t too difficult for me. The reason is
because I had friends over from California, Minneapolis and Milwaukee visiting
us during the weekends, so that took up most of my time. I left my phone at
home when I brought my friends around Madison, I felt that I was able to
appreciate the time together more. I not only got to tour around Madison with
them, we also got to really spend some quality time catching up and talking. I
did notice that some of my friends were constantly checking their phones when
we were having meals together and how it sometimes can annoy or distract
others.
I
usually communicate through both Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger and that made
me felt disconnected from the world. Despite having to strengthen the ‘present
relationships’, I felt so disconnected from connecting with the ‘absence
society’. However, I am glad to say that
I was really productive on Monday when I was disconnected with the online
entertainment. I have never been through a day being so productive before. I
mentioned this assignment of mine to my housemates and it got them really
excited. So, my housemates and I might be doing this all over again this coming
weekend. We will most likely be removing the router in our apartment and
unplugging the television in the apartment over the weekends. Hopefully we
would be able to make it through the week.
I think it's interesting that you benefitted from the activity over the weekend even though you had visitors here. I thought that would have made things harder since you had people dependent on communicating with you if they got lost at all, but instead you seemed to make it a great learning experience!
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