Diving Into the Deep End of Baseball

To start of the Blog post students are tasked to track their use of media for 24 hours I chose Friday to track my media. It’s interesting to see how much media is used throughout the day even just checking a text or reading a book or listening to music. Lets get into it!

9:00 am: Pick up my phone after my 9:00 alarm goes off and check snapchat and text back my friends, horrible habit but I use snapchat a lot as a form of communication with friends instead of iMessage so this is how I respond to friends, then I switched between instagram and went down a rabbit hole on TikTok looking at videos about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelces engagement. https://www.tiktok.com/@stephwithdadeets/video/7542944774282661150?lang=en

This lasted about an hour before I got up and went about my day

11:00 am: My mom sends a series of old face book posts she had made of me and my sisters first day of school pictures to our family group chat on text

11:15: I went to the gym and listened to Sabrina carpenters new album while walking on the treadmill https://open.spotify.com/album/1aqg30bNvLSWgShZgX4oop

1:00 pm: went to the pool in my apartment complex and started reading the book the summer I turned pretty. Read pages 1-50

3:00 pm: got back from the pool and lied down and watched Wednesday on Netflix. I was only half paying attention the beginning of this season has been pretty boring in my opinion

7:00 pm: woke up after a long nap and texted with my mom about random stuff like how classes are going and what I was up to for the rest of the night

8:00 pm: My friend Brooke called me and we FaceTimed for about 30 minutes and talked about the show the summer I turned pretty and discussed our opinions on the recent episode that came out earlier this week

9:00 pm: Texted with my friend Emma and made plans to go over to her house and hangout and watch a movie with some friends

9:30 pm: Left my apartment used maps for directions to get to my friends house because I am still trying to get used to directions and get used to how to get to places. Listened to Billie Eilish and Taylor swift on the way there, on Spotify.

9:45 pm: Got to Emmas and started watching the new movie The Map that Leads To You staring Kj Appa and Madeline Cline. It was so bad. I was so excited to watch this movie because I love both those actors so a rom com staring them sounded great but it was so boring I barely payed attention. We talked through almost the entire movie

10:30 pm: texted back and forth with my dad about the dodgers sweeping the reds and how it was the first time the reds had been swept by a team all season

12:30 am: Used maps again to get directions to drive back to my apartment and listened to Olivia Rodrigo on spotify

1:00 am: got ready for bed and scrolled on my fyp on TikTok and went through my dms on TikTok with my friends and watched all the videos they sent me throughout the day. My friends from home had sent me a bunch of tiktoks about the dust storm from earlier this week. They were shocked I experienced something like that since I am from California and have never seen something like that

2:00 am: After scrolling for an hour I set my alarm for 10:00 am the next morning and went to bed.

Ive always looked at my screen time on my phone but there is so much more that goes into it like face time calls and listening to music where you aren’t actively on your phone but its still a source of media consumption. I now realize how much media consumes me on a daily basis and what that looks like In my everyday life. This was super interesting!