I realized that I haven't posted about lent went without social media since I was 2 weeks in, so I thought I would update you all on that. It was quite difficult at first. I was so used to typing in facebook.com everytime that I logged onto the internet. As the weeks went by though it got much easier. It was also much easier than I expected to not go on twitter or pintrest.
I found for the most part that it was easy for me to keep in contact with people and I really wasn't missing too much vital information by not being on facebook. Really everything that I found "important" and thought that I would miss by not being on facebook people told me about. So those "really important" things I didn't miss much of.
Overall, I think it opened my eyes to how much time I spend on these sites and showed me that I can really live without them. I didn't do as great of a job as I wanted to of spending that time with God. I seemed to spend it on other websites either reading news articles or blogs. I do think that I did spend a bit more time on my homework and talking to people in person, which was great.
Now without being on social meeting for those 40+ days I'm finding it easier to only check my facebook a couple times a day. Really nothing super important happens when I haven't checked it in a few hours so that is a great realization. Recently I've also tried to stop reading quite so many blogs. I was finding myself investing time into other peoples lives that I didn't really know so I've tried to mainly read blogs of people that I actually know. That seems to make me a little more present in my relationships, which I think is great!
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