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Exercise 4: Google Diet

The Google diet has been a very interesting experience for me. Since the start of the exercise I completely made sure I logged out of all my Google accounts. I typically use Firefox so I just changed the default search engine to duckduckgo. In the entirety of this week there were only a few occasions where something Google related popped up. The only mishap I had was on Friday when my mom wanted me to search up recipes on this Italian recipe site. I immediately was disappointed and told my mom I had to stop because the website used Google for their searches.
Since Friday there were a few times where I was almost tempted. A person on my personal Twitter responded to me with a YouTube video, which I couldn’t watch. On the latest episode of HBO’s Girls there was a scene where the main character Hannah (played by Lena Dunham) was watching a YouTube video. Later in the week the Girls twitter account tweeted out a video which I thought was going to be on hbo.com, but to my surprise it was on YouTube and since I was on my phone I was able to back out of the site immediately without the video starting to play. The last uses of YouTube and Google Chrome occurred in my Junior Seminar Class yesterday when a majority of the presentations. My classmates presented using Google Chrome and some of them showed videos from YouTube.

For the most part this exercise really had me focus on my self-control. YouTube was almost everywhere and it was hard to get a fill of certain videos, but many video game websites were able to help me fill that void. Other websites that didn’t use YouTube to stream their videos also helped me out. All in all I realized that I’m not too dependent on Google in every area aside from YouTube and my backup Gmail account. I only used Bing once. I prefer DuckDuckGo more. I might leave it as my default search engine for a while.

Friday 13 Google Maps

I don’t use the internet as much as I use iPhone applications and installed software. I try to use original photos and scans before I surf for content on google web and image. I lost my MacBook on Friday January 30th by a fatal Green tea spill.. So I haven’t been doing much web surfing during this assignment. I didn’t have trouble choosing Safari over chrome on the Library computers. All I had to do was delete the YouTube and Gmail app from my iPhone 5.

But on Friday 13th It was time for my commute that I made 1-3 times a week to a new Film/edit job in Jamaica Queens that I have been;

1) racking my brain to manage without a laptop in general

2) still trying to learn various commuting routes to see how to save the most time and money to get to

I didn’t suspect how helpful Google Maps would be (in a Walking scenario) in Class on Thursday; In terms of driving I basically cannot multitask and the GPS system and I have never gotten along. I never use this app because in the past it has always take me to blank locations, parking lots, and stores that closed down years ago.

I failed On Friday the 13th and used my enemy Google Map and now I’m sorry for doubting the App. I realize now that there is a variety Map Apps that I could have used, but at the time, I trusted Google to get me to work in the most efficient way. And then it brought me to the Metropolitan afterward. Today (February 18) I got my first Windows laptop since 2012. I’m using MSN right now and I think had I known the navigation/trains, from Purchase to Queens I really could have lasted a week without google. I really don’t watch much YouTube videos anyway.

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So Thank you google Maps and Sorry To this excersize  .