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 Hello to everyone who is currently reading this blog post!! It has felt like forever! NOT! I am back again to share the newest things I have been learning in class. If you have read my last post, you will see that we talked about how addicted people are to their phones and discussed Zomorodi's view on why it is their fault. We also talked about Williams' thoughts on why he believes tech companies are responsible for people becoming addicted. But this time around, we discussed Rob Walker's views, which are exactly the same as Manoush Zomorodi's views. To understand his perspective, I completed one last challenge. Then, my whole class had to create a social media/phone challenge that pushes people to think more like James Williams and less like Zomorodi and Walker. For the last challenge I had to complete, I had to choose between five different challenges. The five challenges came from Walker's book,  The Art of Noticing . The first challenge from this selection is c...

 Hey everyone!!!! Sorry it took so long. I was on spring break and attempting to actually take a break from school work. But I was partially successful. Over my break, I was tasked to complete a series of social media challenges. So it was not too hard of homework over the break, but it was something that I had to think about. Overall, I had a good restful spring break and now I am ready to be back and talk with all of you! So for this post, I am going to explain what we talked about in class, what challenges I attempted, and my results from the attempted challenges. At the start of this unit, we discussed Manoush Zomorodi's and James Williams' theories that people are addicted and obsessed with their phones. Zomorodi believes that when we are bored, we automatically go to our phones, so any free time we have will be spent on our phones. Williams' believes that technology competes to capture our attention.  One of these people blame the individual for becoming obsessed with...