Stinky Cheese

Twitter - texting what you are currently doing in less that 140 characters.

What is this world coming to? Why must we disclose such unimportant information? And most importantly, is your life that unfulling that you sit there are read about someone taking a shit? Its bad enough having that crack which is Facebook (or whatever social network you use). I just don't understand what the fascination is wiht it. I can understand how AIM, facebook, Myspace and texting became so big. But this? Not so much...

It's so funny how simple people can be. Do they not realize what they've done? They have just created the stalkers dream (not that it hasn't already been done). They have made it that much easier for them. I've already witnessed some stalkerish behavior from some of my friends and others through that whole chat thing on Facebook (which gets on my nerves). They can pretty much track down the person's movement or the location in which htey think they may be. It's just craziness in my opinion...

Honestly, I could care less what people are currently doing... the only time I really want to know what's going on is if I need to talk to you or your well being is at stake.

We had this discussion in class today about it and most people agreed that the idea was stupid. The professor brought up a point that I have been considering since text messaging started. She was saying how she said this honor student told her that they hadn't written a paper in two years... TWO YEARS! Honor student...ridiculous.

Although I'm not a huge fan of writing papers, I do know there is some significance in it. When you write, it shows that you have some level of sophistication about a subject. You are able to take a concept and portray it in a way that is conducive to your understanding. If you can write about it... I believe you've got it down packed. With tests... you can't do that ( I hate tests!). Tests don't accurately assess what you know. It shows how great your memory is ( late night cramming for instance).

Anywho... back to the demise or communication as we know it...

I don't even want to image how society is going to operate when my kids are grown... I know that learning how to write will be one of the first things to go, it's already started. Remember we had to learn how to write in cursive? Yeah... those were the good ol' days but they are no more. I don't think they teach cursive anymore. They say that it's irrelevant, because it's not really used in life... (bullshit)

I feel another blog entry brewing... cuz I don't want this one to get too long winded.