The two articles that were assigned to read were very relatable. I have found myself phubbing other people and I've had other people phub me. I agree with the author that it should stop. It is disrespectful to not respect the time that you are spending with someone and I have personally had it cause fights in my relationship as well. It especially bothers me when people are staring at their phone while you are talking to them or trying to have a conversation.
I've left my phone behind, many times by accident and felt so empty and left out because I didn't have it in reaching distance of me. At first, I get a panicky feeling like, "what am I supposed to do now?" Eventually, I stop worrying about everything that I could possibly be missing and instead I try to embrace it; that is, if it's on a Sunday when there's not much going on.
On Monday, I took the unplug challenge. I didn't last the whole day but I went for most of the day. It's a part of my waking up/morning routine to start my day with checking my phone. I work third shift so normally, by the time I wake up I already have quite a collection of messages and notifications because its so late in the day. So I couldn't pass that up. I kept my phone on but I left it on "do not disturb" just incase someone important needed to get ahold of me. As the day went along, I caught myself SEVERAL times reaching for my phone to check one of my social medias. It could literally be in the middle of me doing something and I would stop everything to check my phone. Its like I have an internal alarm that is saying, "you haven't checked your phone in a while, you must do that!" I thought that by doing this exercise that I was going to be a lot more productive. However, I didn't do anymore than I normally would have but I did get my stuff done a lot faster because I didn't have any distractions. I did receive a couple of messages that needed to be replied to and a phone call or two that I needed to take but that is a big step for me. At the end of the night when I got into bed, I checked all of my notifications that had been building up throughout the day.
This challenge was definitely interesting but I didn't feel like I learned anything from it. I know that I'm on my phone a lot but I know the difference between when its time to work, when it's time to socialize, and when its time to skim through my phone. If I was really rushing to get an assignment done then I know better to tuck my phone away far from me. I know that when I'm with my friends, family, boyfriend, etc., it's disrespectful to sit on my phone.
I've learned a lot from this class. Especially things that I never even thought I should think about. For example, how technology was brought up and how much it has grown or how technology depends on us just as much as we depend on it. I've learned about how much society depends on technology and at the same time how technology can fail us. I've taken interest to my privacy and making sure that my private information stays safe. Something that stood out to me was when we read the article about emailing and how emails play such an important role in many cooperation's and how 50% of emails can be read in the wrong way. I've found myself using facts that I've learned in this class out in the real world when talking about technology with others. I'd say that this class has been very interesting and beneficial to me.
I've left my phone behind, many times by accident and felt so empty and left out because I didn't have it in reaching distance of me. At first, I get a panicky feeling like, "what am I supposed to do now?" Eventually, I stop worrying about everything that I could possibly be missing and instead I try to embrace it; that is, if it's on a Sunday when there's not much going on.
On Monday, I took the unplug challenge. I didn't last the whole day but I went for most of the day. It's a part of my waking up/morning routine to start my day with checking my phone. I work third shift so normally, by the time I wake up I already have quite a collection of messages and notifications because its so late in the day. So I couldn't pass that up. I kept my phone on but I left it on "do not disturb" just incase someone important needed to get ahold of me. As the day went along, I caught myself SEVERAL times reaching for my phone to check one of my social medias. It could literally be in the middle of me doing something and I would stop everything to check my phone. Its like I have an internal alarm that is saying, "you haven't checked your phone in a while, you must do that!" I thought that by doing this exercise that I was going to be a lot more productive. However, I didn't do anymore than I normally would have but I did get my stuff done a lot faster because I didn't have any distractions. I did receive a couple of messages that needed to be replied to and a phone call or two that I needed to take but that is a big step for me. At the end of the night when I got into bed, I checked all of my notifications that had been building up throughout the day.
This challenge was definitely interesting but I didn't feel like I learned anything from it. I know that I'm on my phone a lot but I know the difference between when its time to work, when it's time to socialize, and when its time to skim through my phone. If I was really rushing to get an assignment done then I know better to tuck my phone away far from me. I know that when I'm with my friends, family, boyfriend, etc., it's disrespectful to sit on my phone.
I've learned a lot from this class. Especially things that I never even thought I should think about. For example, how technology was brought up and how much it has grown or how technology depends on us just as much as we depend on it. I've learned about how much society depends on technology and at the same time how technology can fail us. I've taken interest to my privacy and making sure that my private information stays safe. Something that stood out to me was when we read the article about emailing and how emails play such an important role in many cooperation's and how 50% of emails can be read in the wrong way. I've found myself using facts that I've learned in this class out in the real world when talking about technology with others. I'd say that this class has been very interesting and beneficial to me.
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