A Day Without Technology

Pogoplug

Like most college students I too love my technology; however, the technology I use daily is a little different.   Unlike most people my age I am one of the few that is not addicted to social media sites like Facebook, instead I am addicted to the multiple gadgets that fill my desk. These gadgets include my Pogoplug, projector, laptop, and the list goes on.  These technologies fill my daily life all of them get used multiple times a day and over the weekend I decide to see if I could go without them. That’s right 24 hours without the technology I rely on most. Going in to it I figured I could pull it off but was wondering how easy or hard it was going to be so with questionable emotions about what I was doing on Friday night I turned everything off and unplugged what I could and went to bed. 

Email

When I awoke Saturday I was confused this was caused by the fact that my normal alarm didn’t go off and I had been woken up two hours later than usual by my brother’s alarm clock. From there the confusion just got worse as I fallowed my morning routine and went to my computer to check my email only for my computer to not turn on.  It took about ten minutes of me pushing the power button and trying different things for me to realize that I had unplugged it for this experiment.   From there I got up and carried on with the day.  Overall the day went smooth and tech free, I spent most of my time outside doing yard work.  Every once and a while I caught myself reaching into my pocket for my cell phone, which I decided to also go without, trying to see what time it was or if anyone had sent me a text just to find my pocket to be empty. The hardest part of Saturday was the inability to watch the Thunder game.  When went inside I wanted to go straight for the TV and watch the game but instead I decided to go on a long walk and get away. By the time I got back the day was pretty much over and I got ready and went to bed.

 

The next day I was happy the “day without” was over as I turned everything back on.  Overall the day without technology went smooth and relatively easy.   This experiment however opened my eyes to one of the bad routines that had had fallen into too. I was amazed that I was mindlessly starting everyday with technology by going straight to my computer to check my emails.  As a result, since the experiment I have changed my morning routine to where using technology I one of the last things I do making my morning a little less dependent on technology.