Yes, I made it a week without Google and it really wasn’t hard at all. \u00a0Here was how I did it so I made no mistakes:<\/p>\n
Youtube – Didn’t partake in short funny videos, just stuck to Netflix that week. Whatever, still wasn’t bored.<\/p>\n
Chrome – On a regular basis I use both Safari and Chrome interchangeably, so for a week I just used Safari, and for weeks after I kept just using Safari. \u00a0I feel there are some sites that run better on Safari and others on Chrome, so that really didn’t make too much of a difference in my life.<\/p>\n
Search – Changed the automatic search on my computer AND phone from Google to DuckDuckGo, which I really didn’t like too much but it was only for a week.<\/p>\n
Maps – deleted the app on my phone and when I needed to use a map I unfortunately had to use apple maps but fortunately I don’t usually have that many important places to go to seeing that I live on campus and pretty much everything I need is either here or I know how to get to them.<\/p>\n
Docs – Just used pages for the week. \u00a0Not a big deal.<\/p>\n
Gmail – I only really use my Purchase email account anyway on a daily basis so even though I have a personal Gmail account it didn’t really affect me in any good or bad way.<\/p>\n
I don’t really use anything else Google owns.<\/p>\n
When other people used Google things around me – I just looked away. \u00a0I would ask my friends to try to refrain from using it in front of me but obviously I can’t control other people, so I just would not partake in them using it.<\/p>\n
Yes, I depend on Google for some things and I do sometimes prefer to use Google services over others, but I feel that even if Google were to totally blow up and shut down I would really still be okay. \u00a0It is convenient but definitely not necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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