Our lessons in Critical Thinking have made me reflect on my own digital footprint. I find myself on my phone often whether its with my friends, or while I'm bored at home. Often when I go on my phone I go on to social media platforms right away without even thinking. I go on my phone to search something for a homework assignment, then get lost in the millions of posts available on my screen. After realizing how often I do this I decided to make a change by putting those apps in folders. Doing this will make them harder to find so that I don't go on them immediately when I open my phone. I hope that this is able to change the way I interact with the media.
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I do this all the time. I go on my phone and ten minutes later I realize that I hadn't even done what I went on there to do. I get caught up in the social media.
ReplyDeleteI have the same predicament. Whenever I go to accomplish a task on my phone I am heavily bombarded with ads from companies who have my information and interests and are using them to send me ads that would have an effect on me. I find that this can be annoying at times but most of the time it passes right by me and I hardly notice seeing as I can skip most of the ads.
ReplyDeleteThe same thing happens to me. I am glad to hear you are working to solve this common problem!
ReplyDeleteI also do this all the time. I needlessly go through my apps on my phone and before I realize it, I just spent ten minutes glued to my phone. Overall, I believe this is an issue we should all resolve.
ReplyDeleteI “suffer” from the EXACT same thing on a daily basis. I notice myself doing it but I have absolutely no self-discipline, which is something I wish I had because I would then be able to get through things without unconsciously going in my phone and finding myself on social media. Now that we are focusing on it more, I catch myself doing it more now and am learning from it.
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