Since social media has strongly affected to people in the past 10 years, and checking social media everyday has been a habitat of most people who use internet nowadays, disconnecting social media for 1 day is one of the most difficult challenges I have ever done in my life.
I started to switch off my social media at 11pm, before going to sleep. And it immediately affected my activities. I usually surf facebook before I go to sleep and at the night without facebook, I could not chat and discussed about the soccer matches that taking place at that moment with my friends. That made me feel alone but later I can fall asleep easily. I woke up at 10am and as usual, the first thing I did was picking my phone and checked the conversation as well as the messages. But I already deleted the facebook application on my phone so I could not receive any messages or conversation announcement. I began to miss the social media world where I can see my family or my friends activities. I had my lunch at 11pm in a food court nearby where I realized most of the people who sat alone, from the teenagers to middle-age people, had paid their attention on the phone rather than things around, same as my behavior when I can use social media. After the lunch, I went to school at had the most effective lesion so far, since I paid most of my attention on the lecture although there are still sometimes that I usually check my phone at the beginning of the class. After this class, I started to notice all the classes I joined and recognized that there are at least 10% students of each class usually use their phones in class and paid less attention to the lecturer.
After the class, I went home at 6pm and had my dinner at home. I watched a movie that I downloaded on my laptop before, while I was having my dinner. In this time, I started to think of my friends and my family again and really wanted to connect to the social network to see if anything was happen. At this time, there were 2 voices usually come up in my mind, one urged me to connect to the social media and the other tried to stop me not to do so. After finished a movie at 9pm, I tried to do errands which is cleaning my room, washing my clothes and had a walk around my place until 10:30pm. That could be considered as an exercise, which I have not usually done since I started to stay home and focus on my laptop. After taking a shower until 11pm, I downloaded my facebook application and tried to contact everyone and tell them my experiences. That night, I used facebook, read news and watched video clips until 2 am even though I was very sleepy.
Actually the experience was not bad as I thought before I disconnect the social media and thanks to this, I believe I will be able to not become so dependent to the social media.
austindang 