Computer Use

Where: My apartment

When: Sunday night, 7-10 PM

5:00 PM

Sign into Foursquare at my apartment

Check Facebook

Sign onto iChat

Check Horoscope

Check the weather

Check ONTD (a celebrity gossip blog)

Talk to four friends on iChat

Check CA346 course blog

Check CA346 online course syllabus

Respond to a text message

Call my mom

6:00 PM

Check Learn@UW for my Gender & Women’s Studies class

Sign onto the library database

Search for “The Ecological Systems Theory” on ProQuest

Open search results

Open Microsoft Word and begin writing a paper for Educational Psychology

Talk to a variety of friends through texting/BBMing on my blackberry

7:00 PM

Check uber Twitter on my phone

Tweet @melbmil1 and @nberkster telling them I am excited for #mondayfunday!

Check G-mail

Sign onto UW Athletic website – forget password – have password sent to my e-mail

Check e-mail for UW Athletic website password

Check ONTD

Talk to a variety of friends through texting/BBMing on my blackberry

8:00 PM

Check facebook

Sign onto iChat

Work on papers

Open CA346 reading from Learn@UW

9:00 PM

Attempt to purchase Student Rose Bowl tickets

Click refresh on Student Rose Bowl ticket web page

10:00 PM

Watch Dexter

Overall, I used my computer and my cell phone throughout the entire night – there was not one moment where I was not using a digital technology. It is interesting to think how much technology consumes my life – I am embarrassed to see how much I am using my phone and checking my Facebook.