1. My Media Diet

1. Your Media Diet
My Media Diet:

• Monday: 
•   Television
• Glanced at the news on TV during lunch and dinner. Total time 10 minutes
• Magazine
• Flipped through Cosmo. Total time 10 minutes
• Book
• Read Atlas Shrugged. Total time 15 minutes
• Internet
• Facebook. Total time 30 minutes
• Camino. Total time 45 minutes
• Check school email. Total time 10 minutes
• Random Internet surfing. Total time 45 minutes
• Total Media Usage: 2 hrs 45 minutes

• Tuesday:
•   Television
• Watched 2 episodes of How I Met Your Mother. Total time 45 minutes
• Watched 1 episode of Gossip Girl. Total time 45 minutes
• Internet
• Facebook. Total time 15 minutes
• Camino. Total time 10 minutes
• Check school email. Total time 5 minutes
• Random Internet surfing. Total time 30 minutes
• Online Shopping. Total time 45 minutes
  
• Total Media Usage: 3 hrs 10 minutes
• Wednesday:
• Internet
• Camino. Total time 10 minutes
• Check school email. Total time 5 minutes
• Random Internet surfing. Total time 1 hr 30 minutes
• Total Media Usage: 1 hrs 45 minutes
• Thursday:
•  Television
• Watched 2 Episodes of How I met your Mother. Total time 45 minutes
• Book
• Read Atlas Shrugged. Total time 20 minutes
• Newspaper
• Read SCU paper. Total time 15 minutes
• Internet
• Facebook. Total time 30 minutes
• Camino. Total time 30 minutes
• Check school email. Total time 10 minutes
• Total Media Usage: 2 hrs 30 minutes
• Friday:
• Internet
• Facebook. Total time 15 minutes
• Check school email. Total time 5 minutes
•  Total Media Usage: 20 minutes

Total Media Usage over 5 days: 10 hrs 30 minutes

My media diet largely consists of internet usage. I think this is because I do not watch a lot of TV at school. I usually only watch TV when it is on in Benson, even though I have a TV in my room. My media usage is similar to the usage of other people my age, with the exception of TV. Although, I watch TV on my computer, I classified it under Internet. In general, American society receives most of its media through television and the internet. I would like to make more time for reading over the course of the week, I did not even read my book for an hour in five days.  I would also like to spend less time on facebook, and maybe find a website that would be a more productive use of my time.