My Media Intake

Type of Media	November 19th	November 20th	November 21st	November 22nd	November 23rd
Watching TV (including Movies)	7 Hours	2 Hours	2 Hours	4 Hours	3 Hours
Texting	1 Hour	1 Hour	1 Hour	1 Hour	1 Hour
Computer	1 Hour	2 Hours	0 Hours	1 Hour	2 Hours
Wii	0 Hours	1 Hour	0 Hours	0 Hours	1 Hour

November 19th: 

• Get Him the the Greek (movie)
• Animal Planet’s Cutest Dog
• Pawn Stars
• American Pickers
• Facebook
• Groupwise
• Hotmail
• YouTube
• Texting Friends

November 20th:

• The Nanny
• Sports Center
• Facebook
• Groupwise
• ACES (work account)
• Wii (Sports Games)
• Texting Friends

November 21st:

• Sports Center
• Law and Order: SVU
• America’s Funniest Home Videos
• Texting Friends

November 22nd:

• Monday Night Football
• The Nanny
• Sports Center
• Texting Friends
• Facebook
• Hotmail
• Groupwise

November 23rd:

• Sports Center
• Law and Order: SVU
• Texting Friends
• Facebook
• Hotmail
• Groupwise
• Camino
• Wii Sports Games

  My media diet is an interesting one I’d say but pretty typical of a college girl minus a few exceptions.  I think that my media diet says that I am a pretty well rounded person who enjoys things such as browsing the internet, socializing on the internet, checking her email, talking to her friends via text messaging, and watching television.  

  However, I do think that one thing that people might be surprised about when they look at my media diet are the shows that I choose to watch on a daily basis.  One show that I watch regularly is The Nanny.  The Nanny is a show from the 90’s with some modern-day actors and actresses when they were children.  I became addicted to this show last year when it showed on TV land.  Another part of my media that some people might be a little shocked about it how much sports television I watch on a daily basis.  My family and I are sports freaks so we tend to watch things such as Sunday Football, Monday Night Football, Sports Center, and other sports centralized channels.  It would not be out of the ordinary for you to see me watching sports all day long every now and again.  

  When it comes to socializing on facebook, I would say that I am probably part of the middle group of facebook users.  I definitely think that there are people who use it way more than I do but I also think that there are those people who barely go on, and I would not consider myself to be one of those people.  Depending on what other things I have going on in my life, maybe I could be considered to be one of those people who barely go on facebook, but usually I will spend a little time each day browsing facebook.  I usually go on to talk to friends and family and browse people’s profiles to see what they have been up to by looking at their pictures and status updates.  I never am on facebook for more than an hour at a time as I see it to be counteractive and facebook prevents me from getting the stuff done that I need to get done. 

  I think that compared to other people my age and my gender, my media intake is pretty mild.  I know girls who never get off of their phones.  They are constantly checking for text messages and replying even when it is not the appropriate time to be doing so.  There are also those girls who are always connected to facebook whether it be on their phone or on their laptops.  I do not have the internet on my phone so I do not have that option, but even if I did, I would not be one of those people because I do not feel the constant need to be talking to other people.  I like my time to myself.  I savor it because I do not get to relax as much as I would like to.  Spending time alone is an important part to growing and I think that media tends to get in the way of this.  

  There are some changes that I would like to make about my media diet, I wish to add a reading column.  I do not read as much as I should.  I wish that I could just find a book that I could leisurely enjoy without having to worry about having a quiz on it the next day.  I think that academic reading has taken the fun out of reading in my spare time.  I am really hoping to find a book that will spark my interest in reading leisurely again.  

  My media intake for these five days was probably not the most accurate record of my typical weekly media intake as these five days were when I was at home for Thanksgiving break.  I typically spend less time watching television and more time reading.  I also spend more time on my computer for school work and such.  I think that my media intake is pretty reasonable and does not need to be altered as much as I think other people’s should be.