Day one

This experience is interesting. Multiple reasons flood my mind as to why I either like or dislike this mass media depravation. In my own side of the experiment I was embarking upon 72 hours of zero mass media. At least that was my plan. And I am proud to say for the greater extent I succeeded. Of course there were some setbacks that flawed my perfect plan of going rogue and withdrawing myself from the world. For example I have the “unlimited” texting on my phone. The reason for this escapes me because I don’t text that much. However on this one weekend everyone wanted a piece of me. Sure some of it was just dumb things like “yo whats up” etc. (which I could ignore) but the majority of the texting (and calling I might add) involved my parents, my brother’s birthday, my sister’s birthday, can I pick up “so’en’so’s shift at work, why can I not pick up so’en’so’s shift at work………..on and on. This is quite disappointing. Sure it might seem like these valid reasons would be a great way to use my on slot of mass media devises (specifically my phone) and get away with it. However this was not true. Once I started this little experiment on Friday morning I did not really know what I was getting myself into. My use of mass media is relatively low, all things considered like my peers or the younger crowd these days and how much ‘they’ are obsessed with media vices. But once you take away all media the truth about just how much I use it is revealed. Like to pass the time, or talk to friends the list goes on. And for the first two or three hours I just sat on my bed. Not knowing what to do. Because homework, working out and sleeping could never take up 24 hours of the day, so what am I going to do? Continued on day two.