Tuesday, March 8, 2011

social media distractions

over the past couple weeks i've had to write 3 news releases, a "green energy" reinvestment act report, a large team charter, and take 3 tests that totaled 8 hours of drudgery. as i sit down to study or write, i instinctively immediately open up several different browsers and start my social media indulgence. i start with facebook, and then i do some blog searching, tumble my way through tumblr, and then end with twitter (which usually takes the longest). then i check my several different e-mails. school e-mails, work, personal, junk, other personal. i've got to take the time to link up all my e-mails so i can get them all to my phone. as of now, only 1 goes to the phone. and it's so nice to be able to receive and respond to group project e-mails while i'm waiting at a red light. that's love. you know what else is love? all the social mediums. it's great to sit down during timeouts at basketball games and plow through twitter and see the chatter from that. or to sit down in church and follow up on how everyone else is singing praises to the jimmer. or how about becoming the mayor of anywhere at all in provo on foursquare? yeah, i'll call that an accomplishment.

social media is a great distraction when you are bored.
social media is a horrible distraction when you have ish loads to do.
i have ish loads to do. yet, i can't be pulled from it. how great is it to have Big Black tweet you and tell you he'll be seeing you at Harry O's in park city in a couple weeks. or to have the guys from jackass reply to a tweet. or to feel the heartbreak of jerry sloan is retiring before ksl even reports it. or seeing the d-will trade announced before espn could report it. that or to just laugh at anything and everything ochocinco says? i feel i have a connection with him ;-) talking with daniel tosh or joel mchale during their shows airing? um, yes please.
the whole point of this is that i am horrible at being distracted. i write this while i should be researching the recovery and reinvestment act and writing and designing a magazine article about it. oh snap, what happened to time management?

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