Life without Social Media
25 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in Musings Tags: anti-Facebook, bloggy, internet, interwebs
[No twitter, facebook, or tumblr for 47 days... in my life as an internet addict, this will be tough.]
Day 1: I’m surviving. Pretty tricky, hence why I’ve decided to keep a record of my state of mind. Twitter’s trying to entice me back already… forgot to turn off email notifications about new followers; bad move on my part. Surprisingly easy not to go on the ‘book in lecture today. This may be a productive month and a half. 4pm – first instance of the reactionary “oh, I’m finished reading unread blog posts so I’ll just click on facebook and see what’s new”… good thing I’ve removed the bookmarked facey-b button.
Day 6: I finished a book yesterday in 4 hours that I’d been “reading” (at a rate of 10 pages a month or so) since October – Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. A brilliant book once you get into it and get your head around his alternate reality; I’m just annoyed that the next one’s not out until 2013! Definitely worth checking out, along with The Big Over Easy, which is a nursery-rhyme-crime based book… bizarre subjects, but great writing. 10.37 – massive urge to share the Jonas Brothers’ cover of Poor Unfortunate Souls which I came across on Spotify.
I felt such an urge to share http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uWD0vMrCc6Y#at=126 – After watching this kid’s bar mitzvah video, I certainly do wish I was as fabulous as he.
