My experiment with the Amish Challenge

When Shelly first told us about the Amish challenge, I started thinking “what should I give up?”. I’m pretty use to technology, so I wasn’t sure what would be the best. At my home I’m almost always in the Internet, so I think about giving up that, but now I’m studying online so to give up Internet would not do. Outside I’m always hearing music, that was why I thought about giving that up, but to be honest I have had try before to give up that and I can barely concentrate in what I’m doing if I don’t hear music, so that would be a problem if I wanted to do my works and readings. After thinking a lot it came to my head an idea, “recently I have been using Facebook a lot.

I started to use Facebook two years ago, when a teacher force me to for some activities for the class. Even so I didn’t really used it. But last year I meet a lot of japanese friends and it was much more easier to talk to them by Facebook, so I started to check it on daily basis. And when I realize it I was a little surprised. For that reason I decided to do the Amish challenge as an experiment. Have I become addicted or dependant of Facebook? I must find out.

I started the challenge on Sunday when my cell phone waked me up because someone in Facebook had send me a request or something like that. I was about to open the notification when I thought “Wait! It is Sunday”, so I just take the message out  of my screen. Because my cell phone is synchronized with Facebook, my mail, and some other things, every time a friend posted something and mentioned me or sended me a message or things like that my cell phone started ringing and I was thinking “Please, don’t be Facebook again”. Whenever it was I just deleted the notification.

After that I used the computer and it was all right, but when I opened a new flange in the google chrome and it showed my most frequented sites and I saw the small window of Facebook I felt the curiosity of opening up the page. But after I opened another page and started doing another thing I immediately forgot about it.

In fact the three days were just like that. Whenever my cell phone announced me that I had something on Facebook or I saw the window on internet I had curiosity of open it but with just looking away I easily forget about it.

At the end the conclusion which I made about me and Facebook was that I am a curious person that like to know what happen in the moment and thats why I use Facebook a lot but it is not necessary for me and I can easily ignore it. So -happily- I am not (at least yet) addicted to Facebook.