All people hear about is how social media is bad and how it rots your brain, and how it has…
A lot of people joke about being addicted to their phone or addicted to social media, but…
Adolescents that grew up in the first decade of the new millennium came of age…
I plan on choosing four apps on my phone that I can focus on a data detox and these four apps will be: safari, Facebook, USAA, and messages. I plan on detoxing one account per week. My first step is to make sure I have a secure and strong enough password for the ones that require…
In day seven of the Data Detox Journal was all about finding out how “Google sees you”. The first thing I was asked to do was to go to the ad settings in Google and see how accurate Google’s algorithms are. Looking through the ads, a couple seemed to be pretty spot…
The purpose of the first day of the data detox journal was to search for yourself after having logged out of all social media and email accounts and after deleting browsing history. The idea was to see what people would find if they searched your name. When I did this what…
The purpose of the second day of the data detox journal was to compare what you do and the information you share and search for on the internet and if you share all of that with your best friend. For me, it was about half and half, many of the things I look for and…
For day six in the Data Detox Journal, the main goal was to do an app cleanse of our phones. First, I was asked to guess how many apps I think I had on my phone and I guessed 55, but when I counted them, I found out I had 75 apps including the ones that come preloaded on my…
For data detox day five, it was all about detoxifying your smartphone. I was asked to change my phone name to something other than my actual name to help with privacy, and I was glad this was brought to my attention. I always tend to forget how much data I am using on my…
The purpose of the fourth day of the data detox journal was to detox our browsers. I use Google Chrome and what they had us do was to set our browser to incognito mode and then keep it there permanently. When I switched my browser to incognito mode however, I was unable…
