I use social media a lot to get my news. So, as usual, first thing I did when I woke up was log onto Facebook and check my feed. I get a lot of the same news sources this way, but it’s easy on my mind when it’s the first thing I read when I wake up. I try to double and triple check my sources before sharing something, because I’ve been reckless before and it’s unfair to everyone if we spread misinformation.
This weekend was a rough one for me, as I caught a pretty bad cold on Friday that had me shivering and at a 104 degree fever. So, my media usage was pretty light. One of the first videos I watch is from The Young Turks channel, specifically an episode of “The Breakdown with Hasan Piker.” Very opinionated source, so I try to focus of the facts, even though I tend to agree with a lot of the opinions anyway.
I don’t know how sick I am at this point so I begin to head to work at around 1 o’clock, listening to the Rock Classics playlist on Spotify while on the train to work. When they send me home three hours later on account of my sickness, I listen to the same playlist and play some Archero on my phone.
I was home by 6:30 PM, and I again started scrolling through Facebook, second time that day. Mostly I’m just sharing memes, but I came across a couple of LADBible videos talking about the split between Sony and Disney and how it’s going to affect the MCU. This isn’t world breaking news, but it’s super important to me that these movies do well so I spent some time doing some research on that, looking up articles from Complex to IGN.
7PM: still on Facebook. There was quite a bit of content that my friends had shared about the fires in the Amazon that I saw but only a couple that I clicked through to; an article from CNN that pointed out human involvement in the fires, and another from National Geographic that spelled out what the fires meant for the animals that live there. The articles were honestly depressing me so much that I needed to steer away from that content for my mental health, and started watching The Dodo videos (huge animal lover!) while The Office played on Netflix in the background in an attempt to get myself off my phone.
I switched off to Instagram at about 9PM, and start catching up on the stories of my friends. I use Instagram a lot more to stay connected to my friends rather than to catch up on the news, so there wasn’t much here as far as news content. I read a couple posts from Humans of New York, some more of The Dodo’s short videos. Went on Snapchat after and caught a snippet of a Stay Tuned story, about the President raising tariffs on China even higher, and at that point I put my phone down.
