iParticipate One for 12 hour media deprivation
My experience in giving up all media in my life for a period of 12 hours was one of stressful freedom. Not having to check on my IPhone for messages, sports updates, e-mail and a whole lot more presented a feeling of liberty for me. The IPhone is a very convenient tool to ease the activities of daily life while also being a type of lock on my life. I feel a compulsive need to check my phone for something as minute as a snapchat from my friend, Sawyer, to an email from my English professor that could be of great importance. Important updates are what kept me worried the most as I prefer to stay in the loop but sometimes being outside of the world of media presents a chance to be just human. Without a phone one is forced to directly interact with those around him and not read some article about an NFL player whom he'll never meet. Television was by far the easiest to avoid as I don't watch much of it to begin with while I check my IPhone on a frequent basis making that device t...