In particular I missed the ease of communicating with friends and listening to music through Spotify on my phone or my laptop. I love music and Spotify and use it every single day, so going without it felt a little like a lack of oxygen to me. I also missed taking pictures of random moments throughout the day. One this I didn't catch myself missing too much was watching Netflix or checking social media and this was a little bit of a surprise to me, but a pleasant surprise that I was not as attached to social media and TV as I had thought before. In terms of media deprivation, I was heavily impacted in that I had to decide how I was going to go about communicating with friends and family differently to make plans and see how their day was going. This solution for me was physically walking to friends apartments and knocking on their doors to communicate and I caught myself feeling like I was living in a different time period before phones, let alone smartphones. This media deprivation impacted my social contacts in that it did throw them off just a little wondering why I showed up at their apartments without any notice using