For this nine week abstinence experience, I had a couple of habits or behaviors that I thought of giving up. First it was chocolate, then it was cussing, but I finally decided to give up Netflix. I thought of giving up chocolate, because I am definitely a chocoholic, but I noticed that Netflix was starting to take over my life. This is not an exaggeration. After any class when I had free time, on the weekend, or whenever I felt like I had nothing better to do, I had need to watch Netflix. The funny part is I started watching Netflix in the middle of the fall semester. I would get so wrapped up in watching Netflix because I would start watching a television series and I felt the need to know what would happen next and would want to know …show more content…
I chose to give up Netflix because I wanted to work on time management rather than procrastinate with homework and develop healthier habits like get more sleep, and become less anti-social. Triggers that made me want to watch Netflix were feelings of boredom, procrastination, stress, and loneliness. Whenever I found myself in my room with no homework and nothing to do, I would want to watch Netflix to alleviate my boredom and loneliness. Movies are a comfort for me and I have always taken to watching movies, whenever I’m feeling sad, happy, or stressed. Whenever I had an important homework assignment or a paper, all I would want to do was watch Netflix, to distract me from my responsibilities. Being a college student has made me realize all of these responsibilities I have not only to myself, but to others and Netflix was a way of escaping from these responsibilities. I made sure my friends knew not to put on Netflix while I was around. I replaced the behaviors of watching Netflix by watching YouTube videos. …show more content…
My parents would never get a Netflix account or Hulu account, and when my parents found out about me being on my best friend’s account, they sort of laughed and said “Well, as long as you do your work and don’t get too distracted with it, have fun with it.” About a week or two after using Netflix, my friends noticed that I was sort of glued to watching Netflix and I got stuck on this one British television series called Skins and would talk about it incessantly or this other show called Dawson’s Creek, and it would be a part of my daily routine. Watching these shows and talking about them, tweeting about them, and it fed into my love of movies and looking up what kinds of movies I needed to watch and what actors were in what movie. After this experiment I have noticed that I don’t need to talk about movies or the television shows I watch and I don’t have to be so obsessed over them and I find that my friends don’t get so annoyed with me talking about shows they don’t watch. I found that with not watching Netflix so much, I have had more time to talk to my family members on the phone and tell them about my week or see how their week is. There was this period of time where I didn’t contact them for a while and my mom got worried. I feel that abstaining from this has helped me make time for the people that matter in my life, not just fictional characters
Winn, Marie. “Television Addiction” The McGraw-Hill Reader. 8th ed. Ed. Gilbert Muller, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 505-507
Finally, an intervention skill that all social workers need is the ability to seek supervision and accept feedback from their supervisor. For me, at times, this is a skill that is needed to be worked on. I often forget to seek supervision when I am having difficulty knowing what to do next to best help my clients, as my supervisor is not readily available. This is a skill I defiantly need to get better at as my supervisor is very knowledgeable and a great resource.
The current CEO of Netflix has done an amazing job so far, becoming one of the biggest streaming media providers in the world. With myself being appointed to the CEO position, I have impressive shoes to fill. Netflix has made some serious changes since the startup in 1997. We are now the leading streaming media provider of the world, moving our business into over 130 new markets worldwide, reaching new international growth records. As CEO, I will drive change, identify the current opportunities and threats, and identify our current strengths and weaknesses, based on my prior evaluations throughout these last eight weeks. How will I specifically drive change? I will drive change through innovation based on new strategies and ideas.
Maggie Jackson’s other blog, “Does Self-Control come in an App?” Digital Natives don’t know any difference by going to Facebook or playing games on technology, but it could have a serious impact on them if they get addicted. Kaiser Family Foundation said, the average 8-18-year-old spends more than seven hours and 38 minutes on entertainment media on a typical day. Half of those people use media when doing homework. To help address this problem, we need to teach children to respect the integrity and set up rules for their media use.
The video rental industry began with brick and mortar store that rented VSH tape. Enhanced internet commerce and the advent of the DVD provided a opportunity for a new avenue for securing movie rentals. In 1998 Netflix headquartered in Los Gatos California began operations as a regional online movie rental company. While the firm demonstrated that a market for online rentals existed, it was not financially successfully. Netflix lost over $11 million in 1998 and as a result significantly changed the business model in 2000. The new strategy included focusing on becoming a nationally based subscription model and focusing on enhancing the subscribers experience on their website. The change in strategic focus has allowed Netflix to grow into the largest online entertainment subscriptions service in the United States with over 6.3 million subscribers (Netflix).
1. Listening skills, such as listening to the client and understanding client needs and wants more carefully and responsively. Acknowledging the feelings they are expressing. Compassionately allowing them to express their feelings. Listening and reflecting back on what I hear allows me to identify client’s thoughts. Listening in the field of social work is crucial in understanding client’s situation. Listening responsibly lets the client know you care about them.
After reading about the abstinence experience assignment, giving up the daytime show “The Young and the Restless” came to mind. However, my immediate answer to myself was “no way.” I attempted to think of something else that would be more difficult. I find it odd that dieting did not come to mind during my pre-contemplation stage. I kept trying to come up with something other than giving up my favorite show. I attempted to minimize the impact that missing the show would have on me by telling myself that the Young and the Restless show really is not be a big deal ; I needed to find something else that would give me a true feel for what a person who is attempting to abstain from drug use would experience. However, I decided that giving up the Young and the Restless Show would be very difficult for me. After all I have watched the Young and the Restless show since I was in the 6th grade. I remember lying on the hallway floor and hiding beside my grandparents couch to secretly watch the show. My parents and grandparents did not allow children to watch these types of shows. I debated for several days and changed my start date twice. Finally, I began the abstinence experience on July 10, 2010. July 10, 2010 is a Saturday; I usually watch any shows that I missed during the week on Saturday’s.
Habits are choices that one continues to do repeatedly without actually thinking about them. Habits start with a decision, but they eventually become automatic. One can probably think about things we do every day that we wish we did less of, perhaps like binging Netflix, constantly checking social media, or snacking when not being hungry. If one can understand how habits are triggered, one can learn how to overcome them. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and “Rat Park” by Lauren Slater will reveal the main strategies to recognize and overcome habits. Angie Bachman, a women who developed a gambling habit due was well aware of her habits, but she continued to drag herself into debt, resulting in losing all that she owned and getting sued by
Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix headquartered in Los Gatos, CA, began the company’s operations in 1997 after receiving an enormous late charge from a movie rental he returned long overdue. However, Hastings had the desire to be different than traditional movie outlets; whereas, customers had to drive to the location, pay a certain amount for each movie they rented, and were given a deadline in which to return the movie. Instead of using a method established by other video markets “to attract customers to a retail location, Netflix offered home delivery of DVDs through the mail” which eventually led to a booming business towards streaming forms of entertainment (Shih, Kaufman, & Spinola, 2009, p. 3). Direct and indirect competitors, along with outside obstacles, to a greater extent present a financial threat for Netflix. As a result, Netfl...
Binge watching: “viewing multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession”, is a phenomenon that television enthusiasts have embraced with the introduction of new technologies like SVOD, streaming video on demand, television consumption platforms unique to the digital age (“binge-watch,” def. 1). Services that offer SVOD such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime are even encouraging binge watching through their marketing practices and content creation (Greenberg). So why is binge watching, or rather binge viewing, an activity that people are participating in under the false assumption that it is a socially unacceptable guilty pleasure; an indulgence, just as eating an exorbitant amount of high-calorie foods is.
a. Biases. Embarrassment of negotiating new contract with vendors for high price for first crack at movies months prior to competition.
After receiving a ridiculously high fee for returning a movie late, Reed Hastings said that there had to be a better way to rent and watch movies and TV shows from the comfort of their own homes. Hence, in 1997 Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, a software executive, co-found what is known today as Netflix, “the world’s leading internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV shows,” (Netflix, Facts). The purpose of this paper is to the process of exchange between Netflix and their customers, as well as Netflix’s approach to relationship marketing and how this marketing technique has helped Netflix leave their competitors in the dust when it comes to customer satisfaction.
A few of my strengths are having Empathy and activing listening skills and using social perspectives and being organized. As a social worker empathy is very important, empathy is the ability to identify with or vicariously experience another person’s situation. Empathizing is both an intellectual and emotional process that makes it far easier to understand and help others solve their problems. Active Listening is another aspect that I believe I am personally gifted in. The ability to listen carefully, ask pertinent questions and retain verbally transmitted information is vital to the counseling aspect of social work. It’s how we establish trust, open doors and discover valuable details about the individuals who seek our help in understanding their unique circumstances. Using Social perspectives is also another major part of social work, I believe receiving and processing verbal information, a social worker must be sensitive to body language, social cues, implications and cultural patterns of behavior. While some clients may clearly state their needs and work toward solutions in a focused manner, many others will find it more challenging to express themselves verbally, requiring a perceptive social worker to “read between the lines” in order to interpret the thoughts and feelings being held
1) Netflix’s currently does not have a user-friendly method for customers to stream videos onto television sets. Netflix is entering agreements with the manufacturers of game systems, Blu-ray disc players, and televisions to include software capable of streaming Netflix videos. 2) There is strong competition with other companies that offer video streaming at no extra charge. Additionally, Netflix and its competitors are attempting to enter the digital world.
The answer is beautifully summarized by Academy Award winner actor Jack Nicholsen, in one of his speech during Oscar award ceremony, “… they entertain us; they offer hopes (and) give traumas; they take us places, we never been, just even for few moments; they can take us away, when we want to get away; Movies inspire us; they challenge us and despite our differences, they are (the) common link to humanity, in all of us.” In my opinion, this statement is the true reflection of the reason, why people love to watch movies. Movies allow us to escape. But there is a value in this escapism, its more than simple eluding.