Social Medialess

Getting rid of someones phone for a few hours was a decent experience.   I went 8 hours without my Iphone and this was such a process.  This forced people to communicate face to face and actually interact.  Some people say that the feeling of disassociation from the social world is overwhelming but this was not really the case for me; this gave me time to myself and not worrying about what everyone else was doing with their time.  My focus was no longer, "what is everyone doing" or "am I missing out on something" I just did my own thing and still hung out with people.  I found out that if people really want to get a hold of me they will make the effort to find me.  The only bad part about this assignment was that I missed a phone call from my brother during that time.  This really doesn't seem like a big deal but seeing he heads out for his second deployment Thursday, any time I can talk to him I try to.  Also, my mom went off on me for not wishing my sister a happy birthday via Facebook because that is clearly a deciding factor on whether or not you care about someone in my household.  On a brighter note, I didn't lose any twitter followers due to over tweeting that day.   Putting my social media life on the side was not a life ruining experience, like I had said it was a pretty relieving experience which now I find myself leaving my phone at home when I go out for short periods of time.