Do you seek Amy?
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Disclaimer: I'm just writing, and blogger's just my medium. Yay! Crits appreciated, but honestly... this is more for myself...^^
This is a world of computers, internet, and global connectivity.
Flip on the computer, IM, blog, email, and most infamously... facebook...*dum-dum dum*
This is the first in a series of essays [ironically written on blogger] to voice maybe what we all have been thinking at the back of our minds. This is addicting. Ridiculous. Time consuming.
And yet we do it.
Procrastination! There was a study that compared facebook users to non-facebook users... guess who consistantly had better grades?
Facebook offers a world of knowing 'more people,' communicating with more people, jokes and amusement and something to do when bored.
Yet I'm worried we're breeding a new generation slowly becoming less and less personal--a new era in Western, US life. Less personal and more 'popular.'
Another study showed that peeple who spend considerable time with online communication are less facially expressive. *remembers reading that*
That's the loss of personality. The other part is popularity... when was the last time you walked to a friends house to say hello, unplanned? That was common 'back in the day.' The last time you study-grouped, talked with people's parents, hung at someone's house, had a deep conversation with someone. When was the last time you initiated something, took the first step. Man upped. When was the last time you made a new, close friend?
Looking back, I'm thinkin to myself... whoa. Where'd they go? What happened to my 'core friends'? Let's see. Ben. He's dependable, and during the time I set aside for him, we laugh loud, hilariously, and still manage to inject conversation with a touch of...something. Anita. She's a good listener and knows how to make me laugh. And then suddenly... wait a second. Andrew? I have a brotherly rivalry towards him, though.
I find myself moving closer to that [all around popular] but [lack core friendship group] area, and... well...
[truth]: There are very few people I can confide in
[truth]: Haven't been lookin'.
Here's where being proactive comes in. Proactivity! Trying to become more active... and it's paying off. Running extra leads to talking with Matt and Kristine, opens oppertunities to get faster, stay in shape, and let me have a hilarious afternoon with Andrew, Kevin, Jonathan at the tennis courts.
And boom. Here are friends right here.
Y'see, proactivity is just doing as many sports as you can, cramming as many AP classes as possible, working your butt off.
It's the effort to say hi and make conversation. To laugh loud, confide in others, take that first step towards...well...everything. Break procrastination.
And in this world full with internet, cell phones, texting, IM, well... it's gonna be a habit hard to break...
[first in a four? part essay?]
5 comments:
Hrm...interesting though.
Did you know that this lack of personal-ness will soon present itself in the workplace?
Rather than going into cubicles and stuff, communication will move primarily to be over the internet and in digital files.
(Compy takeover teh world-lah, creepy.)
Popular? I don't really understand what you're trying to get with that.
I'm facially expressive -__-;
It's not like I SAY "o__O;" or "lol". Okay, yes I do.
But I show it on my face too DX
(I hope. We're all turning into robotsss...!)
Are you facially expressive?
Who knows, why is this a bad thing?
Save calories. (lol.)
Yeah, I don't feel like I have very many superclose friends anymore, but it's not like I don't have the opportunity to make them. It's Ivy and Pei, as always, but there's less and less we can talk about because there isn't much we experience that overlaps. All that's left are what we've connected before, and how our minds work well with each other.
I have good MI friends, but they just...different level, you know? I'm not saying that I'm smarter than them or anything, just that we think differently. I have to put myself into a mindset to have a best friend, and I don't want to be a mindset to be a friend.
Don't forget music/art. That's an important part of the 'rounded applicant', too. ,__,;
Boo! Hiss! It's thinking!
I don't do thinking, you know?
My brain can't overwork itself.
Haha. I was right. Facebook is dumb.
I am NOT less facially expressive. *shiftyeyes* wait, yeah! See? I ackshually DO shiftyeyes when I type it.
And breaking procrastination? ...Well, good luck with that, but I don't think I will be joining you on your quest o_O
I like my procrastination and intend to create an empire next.
You think a lot! I will see youse tomorrow, man.
we watched Grease at Bonnie's house and I thought it was hilarious how they said "youse" instead of "you guys" or "you"
that is so true.
sad, but true.
Omg, Anita. You thought. :O You know, thinking about 'yous' would probably make my brain detonate. x__X;
(It bothers me...the OCD monster is grumbling .__.)
deep
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