1/17/19
My own Personal Digital Footprint
This assignment has seriously made me reconsider how dependent I am on technology and social media in order to communicate with others. After a five minute glance at my phone usage over the past week. I have spent an average of four hours and fifty-one minutes using my phone per day. However that number is actually misleading because the current day is not over quite yet as of writing this. The mean time from the last 6 days prior to today is just a tad under five and a half hours per day. During class I tend to use my computer for notes and class related activities. Which puts my educated estimate of over seven hours per weekday on just those two devices alone. Even more alarming is that only 2.6% of the daily phone notifications I receive are school based (43/1,641). With social media related notifications taking an exorbitant 83% (1,378/1,641).
After analyzing and interpreting these numbers, I realize that my phone and other devices are vitally important to my current state of being. So understanding where my iPhone was manufactured and what kind of environmental impact my singular phone was something I was curious of.
Parts of iPhones are manufactured all over the world by a variety of different companies in many different places. According to the environmental report of the iPhone 7 from Apple itself, The iPhone 7 manufacturing process is responsible for 78% of all the CO2 emissions during the lifespan of an iPhone 7. The materials come from many countries and are made by many people all over the globe. After researching this it is more than fair to claim that my phone has a greater impact on my own life and the life of the planet than I originally thought possible.
- Sources:
- https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/iphone/iPhone_7_PER_sept2016.pdf
- https://www.lifewire.com/where-is-the-iphone-made-1999503
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