FINALLY!!! I can have technology back! Honesty all morning I was anticipating getting technology back. I could not wait to read my texts and Facebook messages. Well let me describe Monday and Tuesday for you. I did not use any technology on Tuesday at all except for checking my email. However I really wanted to watch TV on Monday night. I was getting pretty ancious for Tuesday, I felt like I couldn't wait I had, had enough of this no technology thing. However I resisted the urge to use technology and did not use it. Today was probablly the worst day of all of them, I was waiting all day for 5 o'clock when I could use my phone again. I really needed to make some phone calls. Through this challenge I have realized that I CAN go without much of the technology I use, if I had to. However I realized that I don't want to and honestly I don't think 7 days is that long of a time, I could handle 7 days without technology. However, I don't think I could have lasted much longer, maybe I should have kept going to find out how long I could keep myself from using technology other than for school work. I know now in my opinion I can handle 7 days without technology pretty well, but how long could I have actually handled it, is what I wonder. I also realized that in order to participate in the college environment, it is virtually impossible to delete all technology from your life. We live in a world in which almost every way we communicate is through technology. I could not get rid of answering and checking e-mails. I had to use D2l. I had to use word to type up papers, because they had to be typed, I had no option. I had to make phone calls regarding club events. I had to use technology to set an alarm to get up in the morning, again something I could not avoid. I also had to use Google to look up chemistry work. There are some things that I did not really have an option as a college student to give up. Yes I would have like to have said I gave ALL technology, but some technology was unavoidable and had to be used for school work, unless I wanted to fail. I believe there are some things we have control over and other things that we don't. I think it is somewhat our fault that we are so obsessed with technology and we need to fix things like Lasn says in Culture Jam, but I think some things we can't really change if we have to live up to society's expectations. The only way one person can get rid of technology completely is if everyone gave up technology completely, in my opinion. I can't give up something that society requires me to use. I did notice that I read my Bible and did more productive things when I was trying to fill my free time, which was a plus. The key is to find a good balance between using technology and not using technology. I don't think we should be so obsessed with technology as we are but I don't believe that we should eliminate technology altogether; one because I find it impossible and two technology is not all bad. I am going to continue using technology, maybe I will try and limit the amount of time I spend using technology to socialize, but I can't and won't delete it from my life completely. I can't live the rest of my life the way I have been living these past 7 days. Yes I believe that I can limit myself from using things that I don't necessarily need in my life, but will it make me happy, probably not. I like to use technology, I like to socialize with my friends, I like to watch movies, I like to listen to music, etc........Simply put I like technology, life is going pretty good as it is, Why change it?
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