I'm Not an Addict!!!

I believe that timing my time spent online is a good way to help with the use and over use of social media networks. I actually kind of do it already. I sometimes actually try not to get on the computer at night when I get home. But if I have to then I try to be off by about 9:30 pm. Going outside would work for me also but not all the time, since its cold outside now. Calling people is something that could work for me but I don’t really talk on the phone that much and I do it on purpose so I would try to avoid that suggestion.

In my opinion I don’t think any teenager with the Facebook or Twitter app on their phone would never delete it unless one of them went out of style or something. Most young people use social media to connect with their family and friends. So going out and making plans usually all takes place on the particular social media, it’s sort of like a meeting place. I think the best thing that a person could do is the social media detox that we did in class. Or something like that, that would ease people away from using social media outlets.

I personally don’t think I am like an excessive addict for over using social media. I do get on like every day, but I only look and sometimes I just get on my phone and refresh my page. If I don’t have any notifications or something I get back off because in my opinion there isn’t that much to do on there anyway.

Yes Facebook!!! Uhhhh NO.

So in class on Monday Mr. Morean informed the class that we would be doing some sort of detox. The detox was from Facebook for I believe 7 days. So that was from that Monday when we received it until this upcoming Sunday night. That is a long time from a social network that we all use, yet I think we can do it. Some of my other class mates thought it would be hard. But I advocated for us and said that I knew we could do it.

Come to find out, the truth is I spoke to soon.  My friend MB has already broken away from the detox and then on top of that did it on the same day we started the detox. He is not a soldier. I don’t believ3e anyone else has broken away from the detox yet I also do not have everybody in the class as a friend on FB so hopefully we can all make it until Sunday.

I personally am doing well with the detox by not getting on FB and I also didn’t think it would be that hard either. In my opinion with all the other stuff we had to do (especially seniors) with all the projects and homework and major assessments that we had do this week the only time I would have had to get on FB was when I was laying in the bed, eyes half open. So I say yes! To the no FB for a week.

I just want you to know... We lost

So we were given this project to do in our Computer Apps 2 class by a lady who worked for social media. The point of the project was to start a trend on twitter about a cause that people cared about. Our class decided our cause would be animal cruelty.  We chose animal cruelty because w know that it is an emotional subject that a lot of people care for. So we go started that Tuesday in class, it was supposed to be done by basically the end of a work day on Thursday.

So in class on Tuesday our class made a “for all” twitter page that everyone in our class would have the password information to. Like I mentioned earlier I wasn’t very excited with this project so I was kind of just chilling back.  Mainly I was just finding organizations that we could follow on twitter such as the Humane Society and PETA.  Some people were doing some tweets in class but not many. Most of us left that class and didn’t think about it anymore, I know I did.

So I get to class on Thursday (the due date) and I’m really excited I’m tweeting away over and over again adding pictures of my own bird and everything. . Then our class page got put in twitter jail and we couldn’t tweet for about the last 10 minute of class. We were reminded to tweet after school up until the deadline time. At first I wasn’t then I ended up in the library for last period so I decided to get on. I say the other schools and how much they were tweeting and then I started tweeting like crazy over and over again saying things about animals. In the end we lost. We had 944 tweets and one of our competitors, Austin, Texas had 1385 tweets. I was so upset. I had sat in the library tweeting my heart out and I don’t think other people in our class remembered, and we lost. We lost $10,000 for our school. I felt bad.

Can't Have 'Nothin' in DC

So this year being my senior year and things changing in my life i started to realize what i needed money for, and then what money i would be coming into. I was at a federal building (in dc of course) there to talk about social security that i was supposed to be getting because of other event that happened. So I’m at the office and I’m filling out the application, when all of a sudden a customer next to me starts getting mad because the person tells him that he’s been trying to beat the system. That he can’t get social security and have a job to because then he would be making too much money to be able to get social security.

I’ve noticed something like this too when us seniors go to apply for scholarships. Everything is based on how much your parents make. If your parents make more than some chart says they should then you won’t get that scholarship or financial aid money. Then in my opinion the numbers that they come up with are stupid. Like whose parent really makes that little with all those people in the house. Also for some reason I never qualify for any of the need based scholarships or financial aid because my mother makes too much. That doesn’t mean I don’t need the money from the outside organizations it just means my mother has a good job that pays well.

So there for in my opinion DC doesn’t want you to have ‘nothin’ because when you do, you won’t get anything from them. They basically want you to be poor otherwise they won’t help you which seem like they’re only focusing on only a particular group of people, one in which I’m not included.