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Friday, 20 March 2009

  • Stripes in a Plaid World

    Dearest Veiwer,

    If you haven't guessed by the Default picture, we (that is to say Hailey and I) ARE in fact Zebras. Yes yes, I know:shocking. "How?" you may ask? Well...magic. THAT'S RIGHT! We are magical Zebras from Iceland and we were trained by the CIA, by order of President Bush, to type on giant keyboards (due to our hooves ^.^') and send spam e-mails about spam to vegetarians. BUT, thanks to YOUR new President ('cause he ain't mine) we're out of a job. So THANK YOU Barack. AND if for some reason you BELIEVED what I just said then YOU are in fact an idiot. We love Obama. We are human. BUT, like in the picture, we ARE black and white :P

    Nah I'm just messing with you, we just black ma nuh. xD

    ~Diaz

    Edit By Hailey: My boyfriend is kind of dumb sometimes. It's okay. (;

  • "What are you Tweeting?!"

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    I think I read somewhere that constantly updating your status, or posting what you're doing, has some sort of psychological effect on your brain. This, of course, caught my attention since, just like half of America, I have a Facebook and a Twitter. Granted, Facebook doesn't hold so much interest for me, but Twitter I do find kind of exciting, so I stick to that and update my status ALMOST constantly, up to what I'm currently drinking and feeling. Or, excuse me, I "tweet" constantly.

    There are many different directions I could go with this post, but first and foremost I think I'll address something someone said to me about Twitter and the availible "Follow" button. They compared it to stalking a person. Ultimately, the first thing that crossed my mind was that it was no where NEAR like stalking a person. You do not follow this person home, find out where they live, where they go to school, watch what they eat and when they bathe. You simply...stare a screen and watch as their little status is updated every "20 seconds" of what they're currently doing, weather that be "going to work!" or "taking a bubble bath. (;". That's where I started to get a little confused in my thinking.

    Is it, in a way, cyber stalking? Sure, the person is posting their information willingly, but aren't you making the concious choice or decision to look at what they're doing? Wasn't it YOU who clicked the little "Follow!" button there underneath their neat little profile picture? Why are you so interested in seeing what Britney Spears is doing next ("Flashing the papparazzi, be back later! ;D")? Why is it such an amazing thing to watch what Billy Joe Bob is doing next door to you? What is it about these simple little 150 word-limited messages that make us want to read them, or even update them to begin with?

    Some could argue that Twitter is a mess less harmless than Facebook and Myspace, and I would agree with that one hundred percent. But here's my question:

    Do you think following someone on Twitter or seeing someone's status constantly is considered "stalking" (or respectively, cyberstalking)? And, just as a little side-note question, why do you think we like doing this sort of thing (following and writing our statuses for the world to see)? Why is it that America is so accepting to this social networking thing, that we've even made our own verb out of it ("Tweeting")?

    ~ Hailey

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