Media Diet

For my media diet it basically comprised of Facebook, Facebook, and more Facebook. With a side of Glee. This past week was Thanksgiving break. For the first days up to Tuesday I was out and about having fun with friends and not wanting to go home yet. However, come Wednesday morning my mom wanted me to come home already so I packed PJs for a few days and went home. I stayed home from Wednesday to Saturday doing absolutely nothing productive. Because my mom wanted me home I gave her just that, me at home. However, my house does not have cable, we only have like three spanish channels so I didn't watch much t.v. All I did Wednesday through Saturday afternoon was Facebook it up. I also caught up on my Glee episodes from this season because I would always have to miss it every Tuesday at 8pm because I have a weekly meeting every Tuesday at 7:45pm. So I guess we can count that as 8 hours of Glee. As for the Spanish channels I watched maybe like 4 Spanish soap operas or novelas so 4 hours of novelas. In total I would say I watched 12 hours of TV (counting the online episodes as TV). Even though I probably should have been more productive I did not open a single school book until Sunday where I did work from 5pm till 10pm so 5 hours of work that day and many Monday and Tuesday in preparation for an essay I have to write by tomorrow at 1:45 pm. I also spent a good amount of online time on tumblr. I recently discovered it actually and found it really interesting. I made an account just so I can reblog things that I found cute or inspirational for myself, not so much to make an online identity or anything of that sort. I guess I was on that for 2 or 3 hours on and off during my time at home. I would stay online till 3 or 4 in the morning chatting with my friends who were also bored at home and also my friend who had gone to Singapore over Thanksgiving break. Their timing was like 16 hours ahead or something so when it was daytime there I’d be sleepily replying to what she was saying in the early hours of the morning. Then I’d sleep and wake up around 2 and get back onto the computer. Throughout this entire break another form of media I used constantly was my cell phone. I’m not much of a talker but I definitely texted as much as I could. However Monday night I had left my phone charger in East Palo Alto at a friend’s house and I didn’t have a way to charge it until Tuesday night when my friend came to San Jose and bought me a car charger because she forgot to bring my real one. Which reminds me, I still have the car charger, I forgot to give it back, oops. But anyways! So my texting was rather sparingly until Tuesday night but then I got back to my bajillion texts a day pattern. That is always something that no matter where I may be, as long as my phone is charged and alive I will be constantly doing. I feel that my media diet says that when I am having lazy days I still want to remain in communication with friends and to keep up to date on things I like, like Glee. I probably should have been as persistent with my homework as I was with watching my Glee episodes but I definitely enjoy Glee more than homework. I feel like my media diet is similar to that of most people my age. When we have free time we’ll be on Facebook or texting. I think this says that my generation and American society in general really likes to keep in contact with friends and family in any way possible. I don’t think I need to make any changes really, I was only on facbook for a long time during those days I was at home because no one else was home and I had nothing to watch on TV. And there was no food in the fridge :( . I definitely saw how my social location influenced my media intake. When I’m at school I don’t go on Facebook as much as I do at home because at school I’m surrounded by my friends so I only have to send a text to meet up with them but at home I had to really try harder than I do here to keep in touch because I wouldn’t see them randomly around campus anymore, I was at home.