After looking at my media usage last week, I decided to make some changes and evaluate my usage for two days, Friday and Saturday, in order to get my usage on a day when I have school and a day when I don’t have school. On Friday because I only had one class, I had to put in a lot more effort to ensure that I wasn’t spending time on my phone. I spent a lot of my time off my phone by keeping my self busy with homework, or taking a nap or something of that sort. But, I did a pretty good job of it by reminding myself that I should be more productive and the best way to do so was to stay off my phone. I also used PocketPoints which was also a huge factor as to I was not touching my phone, therefore not logging into any social media. I only scrolled through my social media when I woke up in the morning and right before I was about to fall asleep, which is what I do on a regular basis and I don’t mind it. I’ve kept my habit of only being on social media when I’ve gotten a notification instead of the  mindless scrolling that I used to do. I’ve also worked on making sure that my phone is away from me while I’m studying or working on homework in order to further avoid any distractions like notification which could lead me to get back on social media thus leading to wasted time on social media.

It was a little bit more difficult controlling my social media usage on Saturday because I had no classes and I spent a lot of my day at the game or relaxing which gave me a lot of opportunities to be on my phone. Because of the massive amount of free time I had increased, I found that it required a lot more changing to my schedule to ensure that I didn’t spend more time than I wanted to allocate to my social  media usage. I found myself constantly reminding myself to stay off my phone, more than I’d like. However, when looking back at my usage at the end of the day, I found that I used it less than I usually would’ve and I also found that I didn’t mind the limitation I had set for myself and actually enjoyed it because I could spend more time on focusing on the game, or homework, or whatever leisure activity that I was participating in.

Overall, I found it very interesting how much I had to change my usage and how analyzing the usage by hours affected how I addressed it. I think the analysis has given me a new perspective about my personal media usage and what the best schedule is in order to maximize my  usage while at the same time not wasting my time on it.