1/17
Music - 7 Hours
Angel - 15 mins
Blog - 1.5 Hours
Reading - 1.5 Hours
Newspaper article - 3 hours
Email - 5 minutes
Texting - 30 minutes (25 texts)
1/18
Music - 45 minutes
Texts - 12 texts
Email - 15 minutes
Wall Street Journal - 15 minutes
Hulu - 1 hour
1/19
Hulu - 2 hours
Music - 30 minutes
Radio (91.1) - 1 hour
Gmail - 5 minutes
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour
Texts - 30 texts 45 minutes
1/20
Texts - 7 texts
Music - 5 hours
Radio (91.1) - 2 hours
Wall Street Journal - 10 minutes
1/21
Reading (Ethics) - 3 hours
Music - 1 hour
Gmail - 15 minutes
Photoshop - 30 minutes
Texts - 27 (45 minutes)
After cutting out Facebook my media consumption has become very bearable to look at. Had I still had a Facebook then these numbers would not be right. I would be logged onto Facebook at every moment that I was doing work on my computer and since most of my media consumption comes from the computer my total numbers will have doubled. What my media numbers now tell me and something that I have noticed is that I spend much less time on my computer. Any time I check my computer now I only check my email. If I have a lot of homework to do then I put on music and do my homework. Rarely I watch tv on Hulu to catch up on my favorite TV shows, but I no longer dwell infront of the screen to kill lots of time.
I think these numbers are relatively correctly for other people in my age group. The biggest difference would be the use of Facebook compared to my non use of Facebook. I would wager that 90% of my friends, when they are lounging on their computers, are mostly on Facebook and then surfing the internet on the side. My friends who are doing work I would wager are doing 75% school work and 25% Facebook. Maybe these numbers are inflated because I used to be addicted to social networks, but I do not believe that they are that far off from reality.
In regards to society and the use of the media around them Id say it varies depending on the person. My parents regularly use the internet to keep up with the news in India. To them the internet is a means to an end of getting information. However, the younger the person is and the earlier their use of the internet causes a change in their behavior towards the internet. It is more of a form of entertainment and time killer than to those who are older.
I can't say for certain that I would like to change anything in my media diet. Maybe increase my reading of books and reading of the Wall Street Journal, but otherwise I feel like I use the media to serve me and I don't serve the media too much.
Very interesting media log. You are so right about the facebook usage. Once you quit facebook then the usage does go down. I notice that altogether a lot of your time was music which is not surprising. I am wondering though how you calculated the text times? Just estimation about? Based on your time I feel like my text times will be a long one :(
ReplyDeleteIt was just an estimation. Just to be safe I figured there were some texts that took some time to craft. ha
ReplyDeleteI agree when you say that media consumption definitely depends on the person. I know some people who survive without the internet, crazy I know, and then there's me who can't do anything without the internet. I like the quote you mentioned in the end about the media serving you and not the other way around. I feel you embody this when you mentioned watching tv shows online rather than sitting in front of the tv to do so. When in front of the tv, you can spend multiple hours there just watching one show and then getting hooked to the next, but online your one show plays and then you have to choose what's next rather than it just being on autoplay.
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