Communications Social Media Relevance in Peoples Lives Discussion

1. Delete all social media applications off of your devices for three days. (If you donot want to delete the physical application, you can simply completely ignore it for
three days and turn off all notifications from it.)
On your laptop/computer, use an extension such as Block Site in order to block
sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and all other social media that you use.
For these two, attempt to move all necessary communications to text or phone calls
only. (The only exception allowed is to check your social media sites for a maximum
of five minutes each day for essentials (club organization and meeting notifications,
job postings, etc.). Note and discuss any use you made of this exception).
Over the course of these three days, keep a journal tracking the way that
disconnecting from social media makes you feel (at least one paragraph per day).
Do you have an increased or decreased sense of FOMO (fear of missing out)? How
does your screen time change overall? Do you feel more productive? How do you
fill in the spare time that you would’ve used social media on? Do you feel like you’re
missing out on connections with your friends? Summarize your overall experience in
a paragraph.
2. At the end of the three days, read the optional article
(https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751) and answer these
final questions: Is social media a necessity in your life? Why or why not? Moving
forward, do you see yourself disconnecting from social media more often? Why or
why not? How does your experience relate to the ideas from the article?