My Relationship with Media

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My relationship with media has been changing constantly. Currently, I have been trying to ween off social media for my own good in school and time management. It is easy for me to get addicted as I get easily distracted. When I am too distracted to do my homework, I tend to go astray and snap chat my friends or just look at random things on the explore page on Instagram. Because of this, I stay up late during school nights rushing to get my homework done. And sometimes I try to tell myself that I can "multitask" while I do my homework and continue watching my addicting Netflix series on my computer. Wouldn't recommend this strategy to a friend. On the other hand, during this day and age there are a lot of controversial topics and opinions expressed on some social media sites and I choose to try and stay away from that to avoid unnecessary sparks of anger or confusion while reading certain opinions. With other types of media, such as the news, newspapers, and things like that, I don't really look at the news as often as I should, but through social media I always get a hint of the big things going on.  I think that social media is a great way to communicate with friends and keep up with the latest news, but I believe, as with anything, that too much of it is very bad for you, as I have found. 

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  1. AnonymousDecember 4, 2017 at 4:37 PM

    I totally get where you are coming from. Once I start a Netflix series, I will be stuck watching it until my laptop dies or if I get a text while doing homework, I won't get off my phone for hours. It is very difficult to engage in both social media and school work at the same time.

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