Today was my lowest online media use for the week by far. My phone didn’t actually charge overnight so it was at a low percentage all day, meaning I had to ration my online usage for the day. I for the most part only used my phone at my lunch break at work to check my notifications as I normally do in the day. I don’t get a chance to delve into anything too deeply or find myself getting distracted by posts or recommended videos on YouTube, as I didn’t want my phone battery to die. What if my phone had died, and I needed to use it? What the rationale for why I wasn’t over using my phone, as if to say that without the ability to go into an online space would leave me vulnerable somehow. It was like a constant fear that I would become disconnected from the online space, and somehow that means I’d be disconnected from the world.

To be fair, I did need to use my phone at the end of the day, for google maps to find my way to an appointment I had. If my phone had died, it would have been a little more difficult to make it there on time. However, without the constant online use today and checking up on my various social media platforms, nothing happened. As in, I didn’t actually miss out on anything, I wasn’t actually disconnected from anything. Sure I missed some content I’d normally consume. But I didn’t actually miss anything important. I just went on with life as normal.