Please do keep the title in mind, OPINIONATED thoughts. These are heavily biased, and are in no way suggestions towards how ANYTHING should work. If you are in some way insulted, I am sincerely sorry, now go be butthurt somewhere else.Not really sure what to expect from a forum consisting mostly of trolls / ragers, but hey, can't be all bad
yes it canTHE #1 SITUATIONI loving hate facebook. I got my facebook when I got my first girlfriend in 7Th grade. We dated for about a year and a half, I like to think I treated her well and was an all around nice guy, and I used the chat function of facebook ALOT. After we broke up, I literally hop-skipped to my next relationship, not even 3 months apart, and once again was using facebook, tandem'd with skype and the occasional FPS (she was a gamer), however this one was off her damn rocker, so after almost a year and a half of her gradually freaking me the forget out, I dropped that relationship.
Now I'm in 11Th grade, I check facebook and this is what I see all over my wall / newsfeed:
70% useless spam "OMG OMGOMGGMO MY TWITTR IS PUPULOR"
20% "omg life suks guis wy do I live omfg #FOREVERALONE I WISH I COULD USE MEMES"
5% Pages I liked because they had the humor that most people here on blockland have, 35% of their pictures actually being funny.
4% Relationship stuff "omg ur so cute
Jack Sparrow, DTF on Fri?"
and the remaining 1% is stuff I actually care about, like important events or people saying something WORTH reading.
And that's just my wall. I go to chat someone?
"Hey, did we have any homework in US History?"
"ok"
"...what?"
"yea"
"and what was the homework?"
"ok"
"Y'know what, forget you, I'll ask someone else."
"ok"
10 minutes later, they chat me back
"hey did we have any homework"
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The QuestionShould I just straight up delete my facebook? No good comes of it other than a useless distraction. I spend maybe an 10 minutes on facebook on my computer, an hour on my iphone. Should I maybe just remove it from my phone and only view facebook if I ABSOLUTELY need to contact someone?
The #2 SituationNot as serious, just more to prove a point to parents (specifically mine)
Was on
facebook and I saw this image (that I've managed to lose and cannot find) of this dad asking his 5-year-old-ish daughter what she did in school that day. Her reply? "You can read all about it on my blog."
Would I care enough to go in depth down the the minute PER class? No. Would it look good? No.
1st period, physical science, I slept from bell to bell and still managed to balance an A-B average. Teacher thinks I'm cute. wtf.However, I despise when my parents, day in and day out, ask what I did in school today.
Why do you care? I'm passing and going to school, that should be enough. Do you want to go BACK to school? Here, I'll take your job, you can learn about balancing chemical equations, and later you can learn whatever the hell "Me ducho con mi perro a la siete y media para la boda de mi hermano." means in Spanish.
Speaking of Spanish, why don't I make another point about that.
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THE SITUATION - BONUS!!Aren't you just LUCKY?What the forget Spanish. When am I going to need Spanish in my life? The people at Tacobell can speak English, and if they can't they can't land a job to begin with, it isn't any faster than if I just point at the picture and hold up a finger and smile. This has been said a trillion times for students and parents alike to hear: Spanish is a dying language.
Now on that same note, I'm a scuba diver. I go on exotic dives quite frequently. Just last year I visited the Bahamas and dived, and the year before I went to Cancun (beautiful, just beautiful, crystal clear water), and most of the people there, guess what,
SPOKE SPANISH. Luckily, I was able to communicate, but this was a fellow tourist. The guide spoke WAY better Spanish than me, and all I helped in doing was teaching this older couple how to use the octopus (otherwise known as the little tube of life that brings oxygen to your mouth so you can
STAY ALIVE 50FT BELOW SEA LEVEL...).
I don't need Spanish, and Spanish sure as hell doesn't need me. Now granted, if you like speaking another language just to confuse your coworkers / fellow students, go for it, just know we talk about you too, the second you walk away. But even then, lets toss a number out there.
All of the information I'm about to put below this is from the INTERNET, which means it's factual and true. and that unicorns are real.In all of America, roughly 18% of
US CITIZENS speak a 2Nd language (that doesn't mean Spanish necessarily)
It is ESTIMATED, that of that 18%, MORE than half of that % is Spanish.
Also estimated, it is thought that only
1 in 4 Americans can hold a conversation
in Spanish.
(to the extent of "mow my lawn please")Here's a quote from a USA Today article from
THE US CENSUS"More Spanish speakers are speaking English very well despite a steady influx of immigrants this decade — a sign that they are blending in at least linguistically, according to a USA TODAY brown townysis of Census data released Tuesday." - Find that article here
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-12-09-English_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+(News+-+Top+Stories)
Now, everyone, go ahead, tell me Spanish is important, that in the workplace
not including McDonald's and Tacobell I will NEED to know Spanish to communicate well with my coworkers.
Please, post your opinions, comments, etc, I'd love to hear what everyone thinks, Just be aware, most of these points are fairly radical.
