My Social Media Diet

     This last Monday and Tuesday I subjected myself to a two day social media diet. No facebook no youtube no nothing. This was a huge step for me as an IT student. The diet called for no web browsing which in my case was just not possible because I’m taking two online courses right now. My plan to avoid social media was simple keep myself busy by doing homework and helping a local kid record a song for college application. Although this seemed an easy task, I found myself on youtube watching videos for my social media class. I wasn’t quite sure if instant messaging was part of y diet or not since my girlfriend lives out of town I spent a lot of time talking to her on BBM and had a video call with her on skype.  I avoided facebook(where I usually spend a lot of time looking at stupid pictures) and youtube(where I usually watch most of my TV) by playing videogames offline.  Overall I think I could function quite well without most social media by using conventional means telephone text messages and books. Well I normally rely on youtube for recording tutorials for my recording I could easily buy a book on the subject (but what’s the fun in that) luckily it didn’t come to that.  Although social media does make my life quite abit easier when it comes to my social life so far it does not affect my professional life quite yet. But I do feel I should abstain from facebook and youtube quite bit more than I do.