§ Thursday, Jan 13th
o 2 hours online (majority of time was research for the weekend trip, but rest was Facebook (10 min))
o Skype (2 hours)
o Phone
§ Checking email ( 5 min)
§ Texting (30 min)
§ Racing game (1 hour)
§ Calling friends (5 min)
o Pandora radio
§ Friday, Jan 14th
o 2.5 hours online (most of the time was spent on homework. Again, 10 min on Facebook)
o 3 hours watching a thriller movie
o 1 hour playing video games
o Phone
§ Checking email ( 5 min)
§ Texting (20 min)
§ Racing game (30 min)
§ Calling family (15 min)
o Pandora Radio
§ Saturday, Jan 16th
o 1 hour online (just wasting time, 10 min on Facebook, and the rest on YouTube)
o 5 hours watching movies (comedy and action)
o Phone
§ Checking email ( 5 min)
§ Texting (40 min)
§ Racing game (2 hours)
§ Calling family and friends (40 min)
§ Sunday, Jan 17th
o 5 min online (quick visit to Facebook)
o Phone
§ Checking email ( 5 min)
§ Texting (30 min)
§ Monday, Jan 18th
o 4 hours online (2 hours doing homework, 1 hour on eBay, 10 min on Facebook and the rest wasting time.)
o 30 min watching comedy TV on Hulu
o Phone
§ Checking email ( 5 min)
§ Texting (10 min)
§ Racing game (1 hour)
§ Calling friends (52 min)
o Pandora Radio
After looking at my media consumption for the past five days, I have noticed several patterns. First of all, I do very similar things every day. I use my phone A LOT. I use my phone to check my email, go on Facebook, text, call friends and family, play games, and listen to music. I rarely check my email or go on Facebook from a real computer. However, I use a computer to do my homework, as all but one of my classes post assignments and readings online, and this makes up the majority of my time online. The entirety of the reading I’ve done over the past five days was for school. I realized that the rest of the day that I am not in class, working out, or on my phone, I am with my friends, going on trips, going out to dinner, or watching movies and TV. That being said, I feel like some of this data is slightly skewed from normalcy as it was a long holiday weekend.
My media diet shows that I am always “connected.” I always have my phone on me and I am always notified if someone tries to contact me, whether it is via email, text, or call. Because of this, I never check sites without knowing that something is already there waiting for me. I feel like this has decreased the amount of time that I spend online. However, I feel like I spend a comparatively equal amount of time accessing the media compared to other people my age. Since this is the case, I feel that American society as a whole is moving towards being online all the time. I think that all electronic devices will soon have access to the internet, and as my generation ages, the percentage of society who spends more than 6 hours a day connected to the media will shoot way up. I am comfortable with my level of media consumption. Almost all consumption is communicating with friends or doing schoolwork, and both of these are very important to me. I feel that the various technologies I use make it easier to do both of these more effectively. My social location highly influences my consumption though; since I’m in college, my immersion in friends, activities, and school work pushes me to be online more. I fell like my life has a good balance between being ‘connected’ with friends and actually spending time with friends and this exercise was really the first time I’ve put any thought to my electronic versus in person interactions and I’m happy with the results.
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| Interesting data from Google web history. This is data from my desktop for the past 12 months. |
It is interesting that you used the majority of you time on the internet, but it was from a phone. I think that the convenience and portability of "smart phones" is a major reason why peopel who have access to them do so. I think six hours is probably avarage for media use in our generation, so it will be interesting to see how the population affects the nation's culture. There is no doubt that subsequent generations will use the media at leat the same ammount, likely more than our demographics. It will be very interesting, for better of for worse, to witness.
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