Disconnected

This weekend's assignment was one of the more difficult ones. For me, this was probably the worst weekend for me to try and disconnect. So many friends from other schools come down to Madison to celebrate Halloween and go to Freakfest. I personally had five friends come down and stay in my apartment, so I knew that communicating with them would be difficult if I had to completely disconnect. On Friday night, I did a good job of not texting, but rather calling if I needed to communicate with anyone. It was a bit annoying at first, but I then realized that I was actually getting more accomplished with phone calls than I would usually get with texting. By Saturday at about noon, I wasn't able to go without texting my friends. I'm in a group message with six of my good friends and we were all trying to figure out what was going on for Saturday night. It was too much of a hassle for me to not be able to just text the group in order to communicate so I broke the rules there.

One thing that I did was fully refrain from social media use until Sunday afternoon. This aspect was not that hard because I normally do not use social media anyways. I was getting a lot of notifications about posts or pictures that I was tagged in but I did not check any of these until Sunday at about 3 o'clock.

Attempting to disconnect really made me realize how dependent we are on cell phones, the Internet, and all other forms of communication. Even though there were generations that obviously were able to get around without all these convenient forms of communication, but it's easier to do that if everyone is at the same level. I find it nearly impossible to disconnect when you are the only one attempting to do it. I feel as if you would get left out of things or plans if you chose to not use any communication rather than a land line phone.