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Doing the media deprivation project has been a little bit of a challenge because the very first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is reach for my phone to see if anyone text me and to send a text to a friend to make plans for the day. Honestly I completely for got for a while that I was suppose to be doing this project. Before I really had time to think about it friends were text messaging me asking what I had planned for Saturday night, and with out thinking I responded back immediately. It was not until I was about to log onto my Facebook page that I remembered that for the next 48 hours I was to remove all forms of mass media. So for all of Saturday I tried to reframe for using my phone, Facebook, or laptop unless I was typing a paper or doing research for class. I didn’t realize that this project would be as hard has its been. I never paid attention to how much I depended on mass media on a daily basis, and how things like browsing the web; social networking sites and text messaging take up so much of my time. When I finally put forth the full effort to not use any form of mass media I was able to do other things like homework, cleaning and organizing. I had a lot more time to do things I needed to do that I have been putting off or procrastinating on doing. Hopefully I can make it the next 24 hours because although I’ve gotten a lot of things done because of the extra time that I have had, I have to say I am gong through withdrawal from text messaging and not being able to check the NFL updates on NFL.com.