I’d like to start off with the fact that I knew this wasn’t going to work out for me. I really depend on Google on a day to day basis. If I don’t know the answer to a question, Google. If I want to see a restaurant’s hours, Google. Literally anything you can think of, I go to Google for my answer. Within the hour after class, I was on Google. I quickly remembered that I was trying to stay off for a week so I tried the other search engines. That lasted about two days. I just didn’t like the layouts of the other search engines and felt as though they didn’t give me as much information. A part of me ridiculously even felt as though the information they gave me wasn’t even true.
I don’t use Facebook as much so I knew staying off for a week wouldn’t have affected me so I decided to try staying off of Instagram. I did better with this challenge but still did not complete it. I was off for about four and a half days. What I think hindered my chances of going all the way is that I knew that there were a bunch of stories and memes waiting to be seen and read in my dm’s. I watched the little notification number grow and grow until I couldn’t take it anymore. I also felt like I was bored at times and had to rely only on twitter for entertainment. If I were to try this challenge again I’d probably plan ahead and turn off my notifications as well as make sure that I’m always busy.
