Down, Down the Media Hole

The unrestricted reach of technology has created a world where escaping from electronic media consumption is very much implausible.  My Blackberry is constantly available and my computer on when I’m home, sending or receiving messages, music is playing music while I shower or water my plants; there is no escaping the spiral into worlds that mass communication allows.
Down into the "desert of the real", as Baudrillard refers to it, allows one to constantly alter and reshape their reality at any given moment.


Let's look at my Media consumption:


6:00a.m.
Wake up to Blackberry's alarm
Check messages
Respond to messages
Go back to sleep
Wake up every half hour after to the snooze alarm.


At whatever time I wake up (varies depending on what time I have class)
Skype - Respond to missed calls and messages
Facebook - see what posts/comments/messages really need a reply or attention.  This possibly gets extended by clicking on the "HOME" page and being distracted by pictures or interesting feeds but it depends on the time I have before I have to leave.
Email - Check school email as it is the only one I can't recieve on my phone.  See if Marketing sends out any emails about the events that are happening on that day before I leave for school.  This seldom happens as they send messages later in the day so I miss whatever events that I could have attended anyway.
Music - as I do the dishes from the day before or get ready for class.  Morning classes never see me on time as the music can become a little distracting; no class should start before 10:00a.m. anyway.


All of this is done while I carry on conversation with people who BBMed while I was asleep.


Leave for school
BBMs sending on the way with message service slowing down as I get closer to campus.  Messages take forever to send while on Campus, possibly because of the high concentration of BBM/EDGE activity.


IN CLASS, PHONE IN BAG...
most of the times...  but there is the tendency to... amm... touch the phone…


Out of class
Check Twitter, look at anything interesting, and reply to interesting tweets.   There is ALWAYS something interesting on Twitter; news and crazy people have some cool tweets and Outlish always has something for me to reply to.  


By lunch time I've already experiences happiness, joy, excitement, amazement, surprise, horror, sadness, anger and disappointment solely because of my media consumption.  If I did not leave my room I would be on a constant roller-coaster of emotions comparable to that of physical human interaction.