SMWS 3-31
It was honestly really difficult to go a full week without
Facebook. Im sure I couldn’t give up all online activity for good, let alone
just a week. I gave up just facebook because I figured I don’t use it so much
and it would be easier to let go of than youtube or twitter, but it turned out
to be much more difficult than I thought. I deleted the facebook app on my
phone to make it easier on myself, but it didn’t really help. Even without the
app on my homescreen I found myself going online to check it almost every day.
Also the fact that I got email notifications with every interaction made it
difficult for me to stay separated from it for too long. It’s interesting: when
I have facebook available to me I barely check it… I usually go on once a week
when it was available to me. But with the app gone and the challenge of not
using it for a week in front of me, it just didn’t work out. The first couple
of days I took a peek here or there just because it felt like I needed to.
Midway through the week I didn’t check as much… only if I had got notifications
or anything, just to see what was going on. During the weekend I was able to go
without it, even when I had notifications. I think since I was so used to using
it, it became habit just to check it. If I had to keep this up for a while I’m
sure I could go without it. I just thought it was really interesting to see how
big a part Facebook played in my daily routine, and how hard it was to give it
up for a week.