During the construction phase of the Solar Decathlon\ncompetition, I have drastically reduced the amount of time I spend on social\nmedia, especially Messenger and Instagram; however, if I get a notification\n(that is, an important message) I would reply within half an hour or so because\nit all depends who busy I am at the moment. I\u2019ve noticed I started to avoid\nsome of the group friend chats because these make me less efficient and\ndeconcentrated from the work. Even though, I make sure to always stay in the loop\nto know what is happening out there where my friends and family are. Once I\nread the assignment, I thought of the idea to actually change the way I use\nsocial media applications to make myself focused only on the work. I decided to\nclick \u2018Turn off until I turn on back\u2019 on my Messenger and to remove my\nInstagram app from my screen for one full day, and I turned out to have\npositive effect on me and my efficiency. I realized everyone in the team is on\nthe group chat, such that even if someone directs a message to me, other active\nmembers around me would let me know and I would go check that notification.\nNeedless to say is that the most important conversations I have these days are\nthe team group chat for the competition as well as my family group chat. With\namount of work that I had that day, I forgot about Instagram and I was lucky\nnot to be bothered with any notifications from the application. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I must say this experiment was very useful for me to realize\nthe importance of \u2018being present in the moment\u2019 and focus on what is happening\nat that particular moment rather than staying online trying to be present\neverywhere. It helped me realize nowadays we only aim to stay connected online as\nwell as to find out there are people surrounding us with their physical appearance\nthat we can connect to. In addition to this, not knowing what the other\nstudents are doing for fun (mainly through their Instagram stories) while I am\nworking at a construction site has helped me focus more on the work I have been\ndoing rather than thinking \u2018I could have gone to those concerts as well.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, I have decided to implement this type of\ncommunication until the end of the semester to help me focus on capstone and course\nassignments. I am not going to implement it as strict as during the 24-hour\nexperiment but I will still have control over my activity on social media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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