So I have been keeping track of my internet use over the past week.... I have noticed that since I started Student Teaching this semester I do not have as much time to play around on the internet. I used to could spend a lot of time on perezhilton.com just reading all my celebrity gossip but now I am too tired to do anything for fun. I basically just do searches and check my email and my facebook. I just now spent way too much time looking through all my pictures to find one for my blog profile. Here is a breakdown of my time spent on the internet:
Monday: Checked my webmail account for all of 1 minute at 6:30am, looked up plane tickets on cheaptickets.com for 15 minutes at 9:30pm then I used yahoo.com to search for spanish pen pals for 10 minutes.
Tuesday: Sent an e-mail at 9:30pm, checked hotmail.com for 2 minutes then my facebook account for 5 minutes, checked weather.com for 2 minutes, then I searched on yahoo.com for the song that is in the new apple commercial for the thin laptop-5 minutes, then I went to youtube.com to listen to the whole song.
Wednesday: Checked webmail.sc.edu for 1 minute at 5:40am, at 8:30 I checked my hotmail and facebook for 5 minutes, then checked movie times on movies.yahoo.com, then looked at perezhilton.com for 15 minutes, sc.edu to look up courses offered in Maymester- 2 minutes bc nothing was up yet.
Thursday: Checked webmail.sc.edu, hotmail.com, and facebook.com for 3 minutes each, then used yahoo.com to search for lesson plan ideas to teach holidays in Spanish-15 minutes, then searched yahoo for the calendar dates of the US holidays during this year-10 minutes.
Friday: Searched yellowpages.com at 5:45am, then searched another listing on yellowpages.com at 5:30pm both for about 1 minute, then I checked hotmail.com, webmail.sc.edu, and facebook.com for 2 minutes each.
I usually receive about 5 e-mails a day on my hotmail account and 2 on my USC account. I send or receive 1 or 2 messages on facebook each day. I usually only send school related e-mails. I will only check my e-mail in the morning if I know I have some kind of meeting that day to make sure it is not cancelled or anything. Also, before student teaching I used AOL Instant Messenger almost everynight to chat with my family or friends, but now I am too tired to stay up to talk. I think I use the internet mostly to search for things-usually school related, also to keep in touch with friends (facebook). I really don't think I use it that much and when I do it is only for simple tasks.
5 comments:
One thing that I found interesting is that your schedule has changed the amount of time you use the internet for social purposes - IM and Facebook. It seems that if we have the time, we tend to use the internet more socially, but if we are extremely busy, our use becomes more for school or business purposes.
hola! I totally can relate to your internet experience. I remember those days in the dorm when I would spend 24 hours online chatting on AIM to random people instead of reading the latest novel for class. I feel like my internet use has diminished as well compared to the old days...
Nice to meet u!
(im lucia from UF tech class) ;)
I like your blog Meredith! It looks like mine! You and I sound pretty similar on the internet stuff, except that I don't even do facebook or myspace. I only used the internet for 2.5 hours last week! Isn't that awful? See you in class.
ahhh brian i never even calculated up my total, i think i am looking at about an hour and a half. that is so sad, why does school have to do this to us!
Excellent post - you included both an analysis and a day-by-day breakdown of your usage! I was looking for exactly these 2 things. I decided not to grade this first post but did want to provide y'all with some feedback! Keep up the good work!
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