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Essay / The Importance of Digital Technology - 1103
Through this study, I discovered that I use my technology primarily for leisure purposes. Of the 112 times I used technology during this study, I used it recreationally 89 times, which represents 80% of my total technology use. In this study, I defined leisure purposes as any time my technology was used for non-educational communication purposes as well as any time a non-educational application was used, such as social media. Social media appears to be an epidemic in today's society, as Amanda Lenhart's PEW report reports: "92% of teens report using social media daily, and 24% of teens describe their social media use as being almost constant” (Lenhart, 2015). , p.1). According to my study, Twitter and Instagram are my most used social networks, spending an average of 1.94 minutes on Twitter and 2.06 minutes on Instagram each time I open the apps. I logged a total of 136 minutes spent on social media during my two days of tech logging, which is actually much lower than the national average according to a study published in a CNN article. The CNN article report, written by Common Sense Media, states that “teens spend an average of 9 hours per day on social media” (Wallace, 2015, p. 1). My logs show that I spend a little