Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes

“Cracking Teenagers’ Online Codes” is an article by Pamela Paul of the New York Times.  This article is about a woman who does research on teenagers’ but in a way acts like one.   The first paragraph goes like this “WITH her coordinated zebra-striped scarf, tights and arm warmers (arm warmers?), spiky out-to-there hat and pierced tongue, 34-year-old Danah Boyd provides an electric Gen Y contrast to the staid gray lobby of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Mass., which she enters in a flurry of animated conversation, Elmo-decorated iPhone in hand. In a juxtaposition that causes her no end of mischievous delight, her laptop bears a sticker of Snow White, whose outstretched arm gently cradled the Apple logo.”  This whole paragraph just talk’s about how crazy this woman is. Also, in my eyes this is saying since she dresses and acts like teens some how she understands them. If any they will run away from her.  This is a thirty-two year old women acting as if she’s a teen.  This article also talks about how parents shouldn’t be so overprotective.  She say’s nowadays parents won’t even let their children outside because they are scared of what will happen. Based on the first paragraph alone I can say this women doesn’t deserve a PHD she’s crazy.  Then, the passage goes on to say, “A teenage girl who has been sexually molested by an uncle and who has nobody she can talk to in her hometown might benefit greatly from communicating with a counselor online.”  At this point I’m just like ok and how would this girl know if this is a real counselor and not another Waco.  Pretending to be something there not; these days’ people will do anything crazy for attention and to get their stories heard.  Personally I think this woman (Dr. Boyd) is going the wrong way about this.  She needs to have more talks with teens.  Ms. Boyd take this from me no girl wants to tell a stranger all her business some girls don't even want to tell their family, or their parents if that makes any sense.

Catfish, the movie

Catfish was a documentary about a guy who befriended a family on Facebook or so he thought.  It turned out to be a lady with a hard life.  Although this is sad there is no excuse for all the trouble she has caused.  She has witted this guy into thinking he was talking to this amazing girl which turned out to be her.  I for one was so freaked out by her actions.  I was also freaked out by his actions traveling cross-country to see if he was lied to.  He found evidence piece, by piece, which led him on this journey.  I rate the documentary 3 stars because it disturbed me in an interesting way but still it was so weird the ratings dropped.  I’m just one person I really have no say in the rating this documentary was actually rated 3 ½ stars. 

I’m going to subscribe this though it’s an ok movie and it teaches a life lesson; don’t go out with anyone from facebook unless you already met them.  This isn’t a very hard motto to follow I mean this world is full of perverts, rapists, etc.  People need home training and to let there parents tell them how dangerous this world is.  This is for that lady that thought it was ok.  Even though she apologized I bet she still does it.  I think she needs help because she didn’t just fake a family like that she faked a bunch more people to have more friends.

Should the use of marijuana be legalized

Should the use of marijuana be legalized?  Well umm is the sky falling, No!  Some debate over whether marijuana should be legalized.  Some say yes with enthusiasm, some say no it’s just going to bite us in the butt later.  Articles say that there are reason it should and reasons it shouldn’t.  For example articles say it shouldn’t because “Marijuana is often used as a stepping-stone drug, leading to heroin, cocaine, or other harder drugs. Studies show that marijuana use often progresses to the use of harder drugs. In other words, people experiment with what is often thought of as a "harmless" drug. Then, after using it for a while, a bigger "high" is sought; thus, users then turn to the harder stuff like heroin, LSD, cocaine, etc. This is particularly a problem since most people will not directly start abusing the harder drugs that are generally understood to be harmful. Marijuana use may simply embolden them to experiment.”  Most say that it should be legalized because it helps with glaucoma, cancer, and other diseases. 

I for one don’t believe in legalizing marijuana should be legalized unless you have a prescription.  The prescription shouldn’t be for a scratch it should be for glaucoma, cancer, etc.  Marijuana is just leading to crazier drugs like cocaine.  On so many movies and shows you see people smoking weed and this is were children pick things up.  Were do you think their future lays in; in the hands of a crackhead or drug dealer its so sad.

should gay marriage be allowed?

Should gay marriage be allowed that’s the question?  Most say no because only a man and women should be together others believe if that’s whom you love go on ahead.  People say that the bible says that only a man and women should be together.  Some say god says that you are perfect the way you are so be yourself.  I 100% agree that you should be yourself no matter gay straight of bisexual.  On the Internet a lot of cyber bullying occurs because some kids are transgender, or gay or bisexual.  I don’t really like to get into controversy like this but if someone ha a problem maybe they should fix themselves before trying to fix others.

Statistics show that 41% favor or strongly favor gay marriage, 47% oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage and 10% unsure.  Fun fact

“States Where Gay Marriage Is Legal

Massachusetts (2004)

Connecticut (2008)

Iowa (2009)

Vermont (2009)

New Hampshire (2010)

Washington, D.C. (2010) (not a state)

                       AND

Total Number of Gay Couples: 594,391

Number of People in a Couple: 1.2 Million

State With the Most Couples: California (92,138)

State With the Least Couples: North Dakota (703)

Highest Concentration of Gay Couple (% of all couples): Washington, D.C. (1.29%)

Lowest Concentration of Gay Couples (% of all couples): North and South Dakota (.22%)”

So if there still someone who opposes or agree with gay marriage these are a bunch of facts they can resort to and if they need more info look up blogs for info on how hard life had been for gays, transgender, bisexuals, etc.

biggest story of 2011!!!!!!

There were just two that I thought to be capable of being the biggest stories of 2011.  The two stories are totally different one was in world news the other was in entertainment news.  The stories were the Charlie sheen craziness story and the Osama Bin Laden dead story.  Osama Bin Laden died may 2, 2011 and it was announced the next day almost immediately.  People are actually so relieved Osama Bin Laden is now dead because now they don’t have to worry about anymore surprise terrorist attacks.  I also said Charlie sheen’s craziness story because after he was fired from the show 2 and a half men he in a since went “nuts.”  Charlie sheen brought women into his life that were porn stars and called them his goddesses; he also did pounds of cocaine.  These two stories in my opinion are the biggest stories of 2011 they grabbed my attention also. 

In my opinion Charlie sheen is nuts but he had himself a good time.  He was a pig at times but if you look at behind the scene video of him he’s a loving father that had a breakdown a 3 month long breakdown.  He just needs a second chance like most people.  Now the Osama Bin Laden story was different I’m actually glad he’s gone; he brings stereotypes to Muslims.  People thought I was a child terrorist because he had pictures of Muslim kids holding guns.  He was in my opinion a very horrible man and didn’t deserve a second chance.