As much as I hate to admit it, a withdrawal from social media would likely affect me. These websites have become so ingrained into our culture and everyday lives that being without them is strange. Every morning I get up; check my email, Facebook and Twitter. When I need a study break I again go back to Facebook and Twitter. If I was unplugged I would definitely have more time in my day overall and because I would probably finish my homework sooner.

I decided to become unplugged from Twitter. I don’t have a smartphone, but I am able to text tweets. I do this various times during the week and I wanted to challenge myself to stop the text tweeting. When I actually unplugged I made it a day or so, which is really kind of sad that I only made it that long. It was nice not thinking about Twitter and what the world was tweeting constantly. This was kind of difficult because I could easily just tweet from my phone, but stopping before doing so definitely required an interesting thought process.

Fully unplugging from these websites can be extremely difficult. I know that Facebook is a lot of times a method of communication between groups or organizations. Therefore there is a lot of information that is necessary to read every day. But in reality there are others ways to communicate. Social media is seemingly taking over our lives and living with it in moderation needs to be a top priority.