Digital Day
Emily Verdi
Good Morning
6:30 am my alarm goes off on my IPhone. It goes off at that time every weekday why I am in school. Every morning the first thing I see or even touch is my phone. After I wake up I lay in bed and read anything I missed on twitter and instagram. After I wake up and get dressed, I go downstairs to eat and read anything else that is new on Facebook or any other social media.
School
At school, I use many different things to get on technology. I use my laptop many times during the school day. In my at least 3 of my classes we have to have them. Everything is online. We get out homework on the classroom web page and then we use the online book to answer the question.
During the day
When I'm at school I use my phone a lot. I use it more then my laptop. I text and use it to get to websites that are blocked by the school. The websites I use mostly are twitter and instagram. During school now, we can use our phones during passing period and in the hallway. This has made a lot of kids reach technology faster and more often. The other time I use my phone in the school day is to listen to music.
Study Hall
In all of my classes, study hall is the one I am mostly connected to technology. When I am in this class I have to use my laptop do all my class work. I also check my phone for twitter and instagram. When I am in this class I have the chance to listen to music so I put my headphones in and listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Miley Cyrus. Why I am doing all this I also charge my phone so it does not die though the rest of the day.
Practice
The only time I am never connect to the online world is when I'm at color guard practice. During this time I can get away from everything and excurse. In this era, most kids don't go outside and get away from technology. This is why kid obesity is very high. They stay inside and play games/eat. This is one of my favorite time of the day when I can just forget about twitter and have some fresh air.
After the fresh air
After my long practice, I get in my car and go home. The minute I get home I make food and sit & check my twitter and instagram. It usually takes a long time because practice is from 3 hours to 12 hours. This is the last time I usually check twitter and instagram before I go to bed. The only other time I check my phone is when I need to respond to a text.
Instagram is also high on the top most popular social networks. On instagram you can see how you friends live there life though pictures. You can edit any picture you put on there. I also like it because I can see what's in style as of right now. The worst part is what we leave our past online. Mrs. Young talked to use about our digital footprints. We leave whatever we out on the instagram online forever. Even when we take it down someone out in this world still has it.
Twitter is one of the most popular social networks right now. But who is it popular too? Teenagers though 12-23. This age group is running twitter. On this popular network people want to know why its so big. I believe it is because we can follow our friends and see what they have to say about there life's. Another reason I know we like twitter is too follow our favorite famous people. When we follow them we can see what they have to say and when they release new things. This is my favorite social media website.
How my life has changed
Over the past 3 years my life has changed and so has technology. When technology changes so does the world. When I was a sophomore I had a whole different phone. There has been 3 different new iPhones and many updates for it. I have also grown thought the 3 years and made new friends. When I was a sophomore I never had the friends I have now. So my twitter and instagram feed has changed.
The only silence
When do you just lay and hear nothing? Just silence? That time to me is when I finally get to lay in my bed before I go to sleep. This is the time of the day I can look back on my day and relax. No people, no music, no twitter/instagram, not anything. Everybody needs this time every day. I believe if you don't have time to yourself, you can't relax and doing something different in your life.
What I have found about myself
Over the 24 hours I found out many different things about myself. I also knew that I use my phone and technology a lot. I knew I used twitter and texting a lot in my life but when I tracked it, it was just eye opening to realize how much I open my phone. If you think about it most kids use it a lot more then most kids. After this project I learned a lot about myself and others.