Monday, October 26, 2009
Actively Searching
Enjoying my new found technology....can't seem to find enough time to do everything I want. Blog, Tweet, Email, Facebook, Chatting, Searching....it is addictive.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hooka and Facebook
Once upon a time my sister invited me to MySpace...I am sure it is somewhere in cyberworld...but I did not take the time or have the time to really contribute to it and I thought that it was a waste of time.... then came facebook. It is my connection to my family. My family is very spread apart and I usually don't pick up the phone to call, but now they are sitting on my lap. Most of my cousins, uncles, aunts, etc....are using facebook and it is amazing. I sit at night watching their youtube finds, looking at pictures, and chatting. When we get together we usually have a hooka lit up between us....now, I am all alone in Virginia but when I light up my hooka it feels like they are there with me.
Today I went to Pearson Honda to do some maintenance on my car. I started talking to this old man who is a retired marine from New York (he was Italian). Surprisingly, another old man started talking who is from the old south and it was a lot of fun, but scary at the same time. One a democrat the other republican....one a foreigner, one who thinks that foreigners are the problem in America. The conversation went on and on. . . . they were saying that as the generations pass discipline has declined and we have lost touch with ourselves and with one another. The "family" has been torn apart. That was the problem in America. They both agreed on that aspect.
I sit here and I ponder the conversation and I am grateful that I have facebook to stay connected with my family. I wonder if they had the same resources we have now would they have the same problem....would America have the highest divorce rate and kids out of wedlock rating? Then I remember the conversation in class....many of my peers did not want family on their facebook.....what can we do to reunite and create the respect and love we once had with one another? If not technology, what else do we have left?
Dee
Today I went to Pearson Honda to do some maintenance on my car. I started talking to this old man who is a retired marine from New York (he was Italian). Surprisingly, another old man started talking who is from the old south and it was a lot of fun, but scary at the same time. One a democrat the other republican....one a foreigner, one who thinks that foreigners are the problem in America. The conversation went on and on. . . . they were saying that as the generations pass discipline has declined and we have lost touch with ourselves and with one another. The "family" has been torn apart. That was the problem in America. They both agreed on that aspect.
I sit here and I ponder the conversation and I am grateful that I have facebook to stay connected with my family. I wonder if they had the same resources we have now would they have the same problem....would America have the highest divorce rate and kids out of wedlock rating? Then I remember the conversation in class....many of my peers did not want family on their facebook.....what can we do to reunite and create the respect and love we once had with one another? If not technology, what else do we have left?
Dee
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