So I haven’t paid my phone and slowly but surely it is getting disconnected. T-Mobile likes to do it little by little. First it’s outgoing calls, then it’s everything. I take advantage of this when I’m super broke and it kind of helps but damn. My phone bills been too high lately. As a struggling full time student, I really don’t mind saving 80 bucks this month or the next month after. You could disconnect your phone and still be in constant contact through Facebook with more people than you have in your contacts. And it’s free. Speaking of Facebook, check out the photo that recently went viral. It’s a pretty eerie image of our present and future.  I don’t know how I feel about it. It makes me feel uncomfortable. Like I never want to reach that point of “dependence” on technology but what if we’re already there??

Here’s a link to the story behind the photo.  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6948993/Bizarre-image-of-Facebook-billionaire-Mark-Zuckerberg-waklking-past-human-drones-is-compared-to-The-Matrix-and-Orwells-1984.html

Really though. George Orwell called it.

Do you ever spend so much time on your phone, that after a while of putting it down you can still feel it in your palm? It’s this weird feeling. Or have you guys seen that picture of how being on your phone a lot can deform your pinky? I wonder if technology like our phones have the ability to impact us physically. I don’t sleep by my phone anymore so I no longer have the urge to check it in the middle of the night. I still toss and turn at times and I do get that urge to get it out of the drawer and check it but it’s definitely less of a distraction at night and I sleep more. My sleep is better. I feel good. But then I check my phone immediately after and I feel like a robot or a zombie. And I always think about how social media may be an invention by the government to keep track of us. Think about it, we document everything we do. EVERYTHING. Where we go. Who we’re with. Etc. I think it’s the narcissist in all of us when we post stuff, but WHY!!?? Is it cause everyone does it or is that our only form of communication these days that we have left?? I know it’s not, so why do we act like it?? Just something to think about. 

I attempted to document how many times I reach for my phone in a day this past weekend. Needless to say I failed miserably.

My notes are as follows:

* 6:41 pm Start.
I am at work.

* Received a text, replied, almost got on Facebook immediately after but I stopped myself. Currently trying to do homework.

* 6:45
Checked the time

* 6:49
Checked again

* 6:55
Spent about nine minutes on social media

After that I got so bored at work (I work at a hotel with a lot of down time) that I just scrolled through Facebook and Instagram for almost an hour, back and forth between the two. I got so distracted I forgot to keep track of everything. I have failed myself. But look at how many times I check my phone out of boredom. I can't be bored for more than five minutes without reaching for my phone. It's crazy how much time I wasted being so unproductive. Damn it. This habit is gonna be a hard one to break.