Me & Technology

I believe I have a strong relationship with my phone as it is a very important part of my daily routine. Being without my phone is one of the hardest & most uncomfortable feeling, as I believe my phone is a very huge part of my life, in terms of nearly everything. One thing I do as soon as I wake up is that I open my phone, even before getting out of bed, I check Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter and sometimes Facebook, this usually lasts for about 20 minutes if not more. The most intimate platform in my opinion to me is Instagram. Instagram is the only application that I can’t pass a day without scrolling through the feed and checking people’s stories and my views if I posted any story. I check Instagram almost 20 times a day if not more, even if I’ll be looking at the same things again. When I checked my phone usage writing this, I found that WhatsApp is about 8%, Facebook 10%, Twitter 15% and then that Instagram is 40%. There is a massive gap between the usage of all applications on my phone and the usage of Instagram. I am aware that the time I spend on my phone is more than the amount I spend being socially active with people, but it’s just something that is hard to change. Instagram to me can be a way where I can see what everyone is doing and what people are up to and also a form of entertainment, yet I actually can’t describe a certain reason why I open it. Instagram is always available because it’s on my phone and my phone is something, I couldn’t leave the house without. I will give you a real life example of something that has happened with me before, my phone was getting fixed and it had to take a week or 10 days in order to be fixed and I had two options, one was that I had to live without a phone till my phone would get fixed, or I would get another old phone but it wouldn’t have an updated version of Instagram so to me it would be a useless option. I thought I can deal with the two options but none of these options worked for me. Every day I used to take my mother’s phone to check Instagram literally not one day passed without opening this platform.