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Going 48 Hours Without the Internet

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First hearing that I had to go 48 hours Internet free, I thought it would be easy. Little did I know I was in for a different experience. While the professor was explaining the project, all that was going through my head was, how am I going to pull this off knowing I need technology to perform some of my daily task! Going about this project was going to be problematic. The reason I say this is because I need to be able to socialize with people over the Internet, through text, instant-messaging, e-mail, etc. Not being able to do so will drop my work ethnicity, my social life, advertises over social media sites, etc. I work or help with a lot of people that our work goes over the Internet to help our cause. My work study job is Dognet. In Dognet, I work around technology, as an Administrator of Dognet I need the Internet to get access on my task for the day. A task for me where I do have to access the Internet for would be lab runs; test each computer and printer for functionality. Socializing is a big characteristic about me. I am a very sociable person and am comfortable with talking with new people. For people I am close or have a relationship with all are able to reach me at any time. I for one never thought I would be a person of interest ever. But when I am needed I am mostly reached through text or calls. When I don’t respond to either people at times think I am doing work for someone, caught up in my own work, or I might be ignoring them. Never has someone thought the worst but while I am doing so much work and I don’t respond for two days may bring some worries or bad intentions that they may take it the wrong way until I explain for my missing in action. I am not all that excited for this project, but living without internet for 48 hours will allow me to sleep properly. The Internet, social media, texting and surfing the web are things I do before I close my eyes. Whenever I go to bed I have my phone laying right next to m

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