Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
tilt your head back and close your eyes
today im going to ac. summer school ended yesterday. next week and the week after that is jules and amanda's birthday! between now and my last blog: big ears and jacka chilled at my house, shopped with my money-now i'm broke; planning to do something new to my room. can' wait until cga and santa cruz; san francisco as well:)
SHAKEDOWN JULY 12!!!!5PM-11PM
SHAKEDOWN JULY 12!!!!5PM-11PM
Thursday, June 26, 2008
MySpace, a place without MyParents
(essay for speech and debate)
“The internet is like the flu, it spreads like crazy”- Jack Welch. We sit down in front of the computer for half the day; we’re usually on Aim, Photobucket, or this infamous website called, ‘MySpace.’ MySpace is a “social networking site” but others use it differently, real different. This site was created in 2003, in Beverly Hills, by thirty-seven year old, Thomas Anderson, aka Tom from MySpace! Christopher DeWolfe, a business graduate, also helped make this site. MySpace, a place to keep in touch with friends, a place for freedom, and a place where you are not bothered?
You’re grounded, with no phone, TV. or iPod. What do you choose to do? Some people may choose to do extra work for school or majority of teens will log on to their MySpace accounts. Personally, I use MySpace to keep in touch with the class of 2008 and usually set up mall days by posting up bulletins. A couple of my friends and I will meet up at Century theaters and watch a movie until 9PM or so. When I say “a couple of my friends,” I mean what I say. I know the people I’m meeting up with; I’ve seen them before. Some people are idiotic, though. John Wentworth, 27, was “talking” to a 14 year old online and he tried meeting up with her to have sex. There’s also a story where seven men invited a girl over MySpace to a house party. The girl never met the guys, and she thought the guys were her friends. She thought wrong. They ended up sexually assaulting her and beat her up.
Some children, usually ranging from ages 11-13, think MySpace is the coolest thing because all the older children have it. MySpace isn’t all that. Older students usually use MySpace and posts bulletins asking what was the homework for second period or if it’s minimum day tomorrow. Younger children just post chain bulletins (not all, but most)
Somewhat, MySpace is ‘freedom.’ It’s freedom from your parents. When your parents are yelling at you, you usually close the door, put on your headset to listen to music on MySpace. This is what half the children in our society are doing all day long, especially on summer days.
People think that since people can’t see them face-to-face, they can say whatever they want, whenever they want. Sadly, that’s what most people do. They talk smack on MySpace and in person, they’re just the loner who sits alone in the lunch table. People are not who they say they are online. There are 40 years olds’ pretending to be 15 or 16 and end up raping so many children ages 12-14. On MySpace, you probably have most of your relatives or classmates as your MySpace friends. Obviously there are sexual predators, pedophiles, and frauds on MySpace. That’s why people usually have their profiles on privates (good thing they do, too). If not, random outsiders can go on your profile and take your photo’s and copy and paste your about me into their about me section. There’re so many people with fake profiles it’s getting seriously ridiculous, insanely ridiculous. Now, we have people putting the profile ID number on their pictures so people won’t steal them. The internet got all ‘fancy’ and etc. that you can just crop out the ID number or use Photoshop. When children make fake profiles of their friend’s, their friend can get extremely paranoid and end up committing suicide. It’s no joke either. So many young children have committed suicide due to cyber-bullying.
Despite all of the deaths, MySpace isn’t a bad site. We just have really stupid people who put down their addresses and personal information on their profiles. Maybe common sense is something built in our head as we get older.
“The internet is like the flu, it spreads like crazy”- Jack Welch. We sit down in front of the computer for half the day; we’re usually on Aim, Photobucket, or this infamous website called, ‘MySpace.’ MySpace is a “social networking site” but others use it differently, real different. This site was created in 2003, in Beverly Hills, by thirty-seven year old, Thomas Anderson, aka Tom from MySpace! Christopher DeWolfe, a business graduate, also helped make this site. MySpace, a place to keep in touch with friends, a place for freedom, and a place where you are not bothered?
You’re grounded, with no phone, TV. or iPod. What do you choose to do? Some people may choose to do extra work for school or majority of teens will log on to their MySpace accounts. Personally, I use MySpace to keep in touch with the class of 2008 and usually set up mall days by posting up bulletins. A couple of my friends and I will meet up at Century theaters and watch a movie until 9PM or so. When I say “a couple of my friends,” I mean what I say. I know the people I’m meeting up with; I’ve seen them before. Some people are idiotic, though. John Wentworth, 27, was “talking” to a 14 year old online and he tried meeting up with her to have sex. There’s also a story where seven men invited a girl over MySpace to a house party. The girl never met the guys, and she thought the guys were her friends. She thought wrong. They ended up sexually assaulting her and beat her up.
Some children, usually ranging from ages 11-13, think MySpace is the coolest thing because all the older children have it. MySpace isn’t all that. Older students usually use MySpace and posts bulletins asking what was the homework for second period or if it’s minimum day tomorrow. Younger children just post chain bulletins (not all, but most)
Somewhat, MySpace is ‘freedom.’ It’s freedom from your parents. When your parents are yelling at you, you usually close the door, put on your headset to listen to music on MySpace. This is what half the children in our society are doing all day long, especially on summer days.
People think that since people can’t see them face-to-face, they can say whatever they want, whenever they want. Sadly, that’s what most people do. They talk smack on MySpace and in person, they’re just the loner who sits alone in the lunch table. People are not who they say they are online. There are 40 years olds’ pretending to be 15 or 16 and end up raping so many children ages 12-14. On MySpace, you probably have most of your relatives or classmates as your MySpace friends. Obviously there are sexual predators, pedophiles, and frauds on MySpace. That’s why people usually have their profiles on privates (good thing they do, too). If not, random outsiders can go on your profile and take your photo’s and copy and paste your about me into their about me section. There’re so many people with fake profiles it’s getting seriously ridiculous, insanely ridiculous. Now, we have people putting the profile ID number on their pictures so people won’t steal them. The internet got all ‘fancy’ and etc. that you can just crop out the ID number or use Photoshop. When children make fake profiles of their friend’s, their friend can get extremely paranoid and end up committing suicide. It’s no joke either. So many young children have committed suicide due to cyber-bullying.
Despite all of the deaths, MySpace isn’t a bad site. We just have really stupid people who put down their addresses and personal information on their profiles. Maybe common sense is something built in our head as we get older.
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