So during the week I was tasked with not using google, Facebook, and other social media sites. The thing that happened is the majority of what the professor asked for I did because I am not a Facebook user To be honest my Facebook is full of degenerates so I don’t go on there, Instagram I only use for finding tattoo artists, and Tie Tok is cancer so I didn’t have that downloaded. I have to say though I failed at this exercise because of the simply face I needed to be on YouTube. I looked up Youtube on Yahoo to see if I can find a loophole but it definitely said no Google. I failed this with flying colors on Day 2 because I have a side job with my step mother’s company that makes logos and websites and I needed Youtube to help refresh my memories on how to do certain things. I am honorable enough to say because of YouTube I failed this challenge, everything else was easy for me to put down but YouTube was a requirement and I bombed it completely.
I think the whole gist of the assignment is because people is so dependent on Social media that it can take over our lives in a sense. I think theirs a line of people that let it consume them or people that actually need it for business ventures. In the article Is Google Making Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr, he emphasizes that the internet can make people slow in the terms of how he was having trouble reading and thinking like he used too. I can actually relate to doing this type of research on myself when I was younger. Their was a very unusual feeling when you are constantly on your phone just aimlessly scrolling, I had to start reading more and spend less time on the internet.
