well, maybe it’s just me. but i feel like the internet and laptops totally make us antisocial. for instance, i come back from a weekend at home to my one roommate watching a movie in the living room, while his girlfriend is on a macbook, and my other roommate is on his macbook too. i sit down and no one says anything (and not because they all hate me lol) but they are literally staring at their screens. so i try to make conversation and asked how everyone’s weekend was. not surprisingly, no one did anything special. they just “chilled”. ON THEIR MACBOOKS. and this type of scenario can be seen a lot at our house. and probably in every other student living situation. the internet consumes us so much. sometimes it’s for something productive, but other times it’s just to kill some time…look at irrelevant stuff…FACEBOOK. you know, it’s funny. facebook is supposed to bring people together…it’s a SOCIAL network. but nothing is social about it, except the fact that people can write on each other’s walls, invite each other to events, and post pictures. and WHILE people are stuck behind their screens on facebook trying to be “social”, there could be ACTUAL people in the room and they could care less to socialize! what is happening! ever since i deactivated facebook, it became the smallest priority of mine. why did i go on it for hours before if it’s actually not that important to me? just because it was there, and people go on it, so i did too. but i realized that that’s a lame excuse to make friends. anyways…just my thought on the internet, and facebook. /end rant.

well, maybe it’s just me. but i feel like the internet and laptops totally make us antisocial. for instance, i come back from a weekend at home to my one roommate watching a movie in the living room, while his girlfriend is on a macbook, and my other roommate is on his macbook too. i sit down and no one says anything (and not because they all hate me lol) but they are literally staring at their screens. so i try to make conversation and asked how everyone’s weekend was. not surprisingly, no one did anything special. they just “chilled”. ON THEIR MACBOOKS. and this type of scenario can be seen a lot at our house. and probably in every other student living situation. the internet consumes us so much. sometimes it’s for something productive, but other times it’s just to kill some time…look at irrelevant stuff…FACEBOOK. you know, it’s funny. facebook is supposed to bring people together…it’s a SOCIAL network. but nothing is social about it, except the fact that people can write on each other’s walls, invite each other to events, and post pictures. and WHILE people are stuck behind their screens on facebook trying to be “social”, there could be ACTUAL people in the room and they could care less to socialize! what is happening! ever since i deactivated facebook, it became the smallest priority of mine. why did i go on it for hours before if it’s actually not that important to me? just because it was there, and people go on it, so i did too. but i realized that that’s a lame excuse to make friends. anyways…just my thought on the internet, and facebook.

/end rant.

02.13.11
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