The power social networking websites have over today’s people has been brought to my attention! In August this year, 6,439,980 Australians were using Facebook! Isn’t that amazing?
It sure is.
This whole social networking thing is pretty cool. I mean, I love it. Twitter and Facebook and WordPress – it can’t get any better. But I hate the name. Social networking? Puh-LEASE! Everybody “socially networks” in REAL LIFE. In a sense. And the idea that “networking” gives, that we link up to other people via a network, is just disturbing. I, for one, don’t want to be “linked” with anybody. It’s ridiculous. Social networking websites are just for talking to other people. Telephones aren’t called social networks, are they? So why Twitter?
Moving on to more technology ranting, my older brother got his laptop courtesy of the Australian government today. He is in year nine. This is the very first time laptops have been government issued to students. And they have given them to the year nines. The year nines. Pointless.
I mean, yes, maybe I am just jealous, and maybe they shouldn’t give them to us year sevens because some of us can’t be trusted with our own laptops, but really. They should have given them to a grade that really needed them. Like year eleven, or year twelve, maybe. They’d use them for the HSC. Easy. But year nines? They don’t do ANYTHING. In terms of important exams, I mean. Nothing at all. And the government goes ahead and gives them all free laptops. Pointless.
It’s all just too ridiculous!
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