Spring Break Assignment

Spring Break was finally here and so my homework assignment. I needed to keep track by hours and minutes how many time I spend with technology. The incredible result was that during these seven days I expend 31 hours and 7 minutes connected. I think my husband is right when he says that I am addicted to Facebook. That blue square with the white F on my phone had the majority of my attention during this week with 13 hours and 15 minutes. For me, it is hard to stay away from it. I need to know, what are my friends doing and where they are; with 935 friends, imagine how long I spend scrolling down. Living far away from the majority of my friends, 700 of them live in Guatemala; Facebook gives me the way to continue being part of their lives even from thousand of miles away. I spend a lot of time on it, even thought I can just check it during my breaks while I’m working. Instagram is another time-consumer. My annotations show that I spend 3 hours and 10 minutes on it. With five new babies in the family and four from my coworkers, my Instagram is full of cute and gorgeous pictures of little ones. I also have a lot of professional photographers as friends which added plenty of more images to watch and like. Another thing I noticed was that I love to web surfed looking for news. As a former journalist I need to be updated with everything that is happening in the world. My searches range between politics, entertainment and society. I spend 3 hours and 48 minutes looking around on the web. I need to admit that I really took a vacation from my school assignments, and I didn’t check anything on Moodle, LBCC Email or Online homework. Although, I didn’t spend a lot of time per day on my E-mail when you added the whole week it was 3 hours and 9 minutes. The funniest part is that I didn’t even have any personal messages from friends or family it was most commercial E-mails (such as my bank or my Disney Movies accounts). I need to admit I’m addicted to Disney Movies (as a Disneyland Cast Member I think it is kind of normal) and I’m always checking my account to see the new releases and the latest sales. Talking about Disney Movies, I was 1 hour and 45 minutes online shopping with the final result of the addition of Cars 2 and Mary Poppins to my collection. I am not to much a video player but if playing games on my phone counts as video games, I spend 2 hours 35 minutes on them. After my friend Rosemary introduced me with “My Vegas Slots” and some of the saga games, I have the urgent need of keep gambling to win more coins and points. This week I spend 2 hours and 35 minutes, rolling the slots. After all this 31 hours and 7 minutes spent on Technology, I can tell that most of it is a waste of time. I should be happier spending this time with my husband, friends and close family than playing or buying things. I think technology is good and useful, if you learn to control it and don’t let it to control you. It amaze me how the new generations are getting more and more isolated; with their eyes focus more on the screen and less in the eyes of the people surrounding them.