ENGL 108D

[Beep Beep, the sound of the alarm has awoken you. You slowly open your eyes and roll around. You sit up, rubbing your eyes, and see your phone beside your pillow.] (set: $happiness to 1) (set: $answerFriend to false) (text-colour:black)[[Pick it up and check your phone]] (text-colour:black)[[Ignore it]]

You pick up your phone and unlock it. On your homescreen, you see the weather app, a social media app, and a meditation app. (text-colour:black)[[Open weather app]] (text-colour:black)[[Open social media app]] (text-colour:black)[[Open meditation app]]

You roll out of bed and head to the bathroom to start getting ready to start your day. After getting ready, you take a seat at your desk. [[Eat & check emails for the day|Work]]

You check todays weather, and decide on what to wear for the day. (text-colour:black)[[Start your day|Ignore it]]

You open up the social media app and are presented with the feed with many updates. Your friends have also added a lot of stories. You also noticed you have some unread messages. (text-colour:black)[[Scroll through feed]] (text-colour:black)[[Watch friends’ stories]] (text-colour:black)[[Open unread messages]]

You scroll through your own feed and check on the updates. You notice that some people have left some comments on your posts. (text-colour:black)[[Check comments]] (text-colour:black)[[Turn off phone|Work]]

You start watching others’ story and see all the fun activities the others you know have been doing (eating yummy food, going to parties, travelling) and can’t stop yourself from comparing your life with theirs. You come across one of your friends story and is very interested in what else they have been up to. (text-colour:black)[[Check the friend’s profile]] (text-colour:black)[[Stop watching the stories|Work]]

You start up a converstaion with your friend and you plan to meet up with them and study together later on in the day. [[Get out of bed|Ignore it]] (set: $answerFriend to true)

You check all your emails and make a note of all the assignments you have to complete throughout the day. You then pack up your bag and head out to go to your lecture. You made it to Geography lecture and your professor has already begun to teach. You see your phone on the table and you are tempted to pick it up. [[Don’t use phone]] [[Open social media app|open social media app]]

(enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:0,0.8039,0.5,0.9)))You are so preoccupied with doing everything else besides class. SMH what a bad student! As a result, you missed taking notes for majority of the class and end up copying off your friend who is also in the class. (text-colour:black)[[Proceed|Don’t use phone]]

You sit through the rest of the lecture then pack up your bag and head to the library to begin working on the various assignments that are due. You find a nice quiet spot and open up your computer. (text-colour:green)[[Go on social media]] (text-colour:green)[[Use social media for networking]] (text-colour:green)[[Decide to meet up with friends now]]

You open the comment section of your post and start to read through the comments. You come across a very mean comment left by someone you know. The comment personally attacks you lol idk, and leaves you feeling upset. (text-colour:black)[[Ignore the comment|Work]] (text-colour:black)[[Confront the attack by responding to the comment]]

You responded to the comment angrily. To your surprise, the other person responded immediately after you, and you two got into a heated argument. A long time has passed and you realized you are now late for class. You are so pissed now like omg oh gee oh no huffing puffing peeing. You’re fuming! You quickly pack your bag and run out of the house to get to class. (text-colour:black)[[no actions|open social media app]]

You’re now on your friends profile and are scrolling through their whole profile. You are lowkey stalking them. (text-colour:black)[[Turn off phone|Work]] (text-colour:black)[[Look at more posts and read into the comments]]

You see that your friends are enjoying themselves by going on vacations and eating delicious food. They also receive tons of appraisals in their comments. This made you feel upset that you don't have what they have. You go on with your day with a bad mood. (set: $happiness to it + -1) (text-colour:black)[[Go on|Work]]

You open up your phone and check out your different social media accounts. You answer your friends on snapchat and then end up on TikTok. You keep scrolling and scolling and somehow 2 hours has passed and you have not gotten any work done. You start to stress out a bit. But something catches your attention. A notification pops up and you see a comment from a bully who so happens to be in the same library as you. (text-colour:black)[[Ignore]] (text-colour:black)[[Check the comment]]

You open up LinkedIn and see you have made a connection with someone who is working in the same field you want to pursue. You end up starting up a converstaion with this person and through this, you are able to establish a meaning connection. (text-colour:black)[[Decide to meet up with friends now]]

You’re feeling a little lonely staying at the library all by yourself, so you message a friend to come study with you. You spend some quality time with them, having a deep and meaningful conversation about life. Through this converstaion, you are able to establish and strengthen a new friendship. After your deep converstaion, you are both left sitting there in silence. (text-colour:#7E2506)[[Work on assignments]] (text-colour:#7E2506)[[Go on social media]]

You think about it, but you decide to be the bigger person and not start a big scene so you ignore the comment. Now considering you have not been very productive at the library, you begin packing your bag to go home and work. But as you’re packing up, you can’t help think to yourself about the comment you saw from the bully. You’re confused and your emotions are all over the place. [[Reach out to a friend]] [[Keep to yourself]]

You let your anger and rage get the best of you and try and get back at your bully.... but the funny thing is now YOU’RE the bully. OH HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED! You get them good and you end up posting a really mean post about them on all your social media platforms along with a meme. To your surprise, it blows up. Within 10 minutes, half the students are talking about it and are sharing it with more and more people. 5 miuntes later, you hear an annoucement asking you to report to the deans offcie. OH SNAP! [[The end|the end]]

You arrive at the resturant and there are so many people from school there. You recognize a few people there but that’s about it. You try locating your friend who invited you, but in the process of doing this, you make eye contant with a friend you were stalking earlier. You are really jealous and intimidated by this friend because of all the cool stuff they posted on thier social media. The friend that invited you finds you and brings you to talk to the friend you are intimidated by. After just a short converstaion, you realize that they’re not scary at all and you shouldn’t have compared yourself to them. It’s just social media and majority of it has been fabricated... FAKE! [[The end]]

Congrats! You were able to maintain a good and healthy balance regarding social media use throughout the day. You were not too disconnected from the outside world, but were still able to have a life outside of social media. You have a strong sense of self as well. Ultimately, your mood was not negatively affected, you were very productive and feel accomplished and you are able to get a good nights rest. Ending thoughts: * If you ended here, you have experienced a healthy amount of social media and may have even experiences some of the positive benefits a balance of social media can have on an individual. * Feel free to play again and see what other outcomes you can achieve with a more unbalanced approach to social media! [[Try again|Start]]

(text-colour:#3D8CFF)[The emotions are too much to handle by yourself, so you decide to reach out to a trusted friend and talk about the scenario. You spend a while explaining the situtation and your friend is able provide advice and help you talk through it. In attempts to cheer you up, your friend invites you to a big group dinner with other people from school. You decide this is a good idea to help clear your mind, just relax, and have fun. So you agree and tell your friend you will meet them there once you finish all your outstanding assignments.](enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:180,0.8039,0.5,0.45))) [[Go for dinner]]

(text-colour:black)[You consider it, but you decide to keep your emotions to yourself and just bottle it up. You end up feeling sorry for your self, you build up a lot of anger, and it ultimately takes a hit on your self esteem... OUCH. That ain’t fun.] [[The end|the end]]

Sadly you did not make a good use of social media throughout the day. You were unproductive all day and feel terrible. You continuously compared yourself to people you saw on social media and as a result, you were feeling sad for yourself. You are depressed, anxious and self conscious. You potentially have to go talk to the dean (depending if you went down that path). But at the end of the day, you go to bed angry and irritated. You don’t get a good nights rest and wake up all grumpy in the morning. Then the cycle continues. Ending thoughs: * If you ended here, you have experienced an unhealthy amount of social media and the negative effects it can have on an individual. * Feel free to play again and see what other outcomes you can achieve with a more balanced approach to social media! [[Try again|Start]]

(text-colour:black)[Instead of going on your phone, you decide to take this time to finish up all of the remaining assignemnts you have. You work alongside your friend for a couple hours. You are both on the grind and finish your work. WOO!! Your friend then invites you to a big group dinner where a lot of people from school are going to be at. Since you finsihed all your work and were productive, you decide to go. You tell your friend you will meet them there.](enchant:?passage,(bg:(hsl:0,0.8039,0.5,0.70))) (text-colour:black)[[Go for dinner]]

(set: $happiness to it + 1) You open up your meditation app and use it to set up some goals you want to achieve throughout the day. (text-colour:black)[[Start your day|Ignore it]]