Now that blogging has become so popular I am wondering if employers will start searching for personal blogs to learn more information about their perspective employees. You have to be careful what you put on Facebook now. Does your blog username hide your identity well?
Am I old fashioned or are we becoming a plugged-in nation? What happened to walking into someone else's room to talk? Or, perhaps, one can just pick up the phone. I had a student who texted his parents FROM HIS BEDROOM! Hello? Is this an issue for anyone else. If I read OMG or LOL on another essay I WILL SCREAM. But maybe that's just me.
Hey, Library Chick I totally agree. What happened to actually talking to someone. How do people REALLY get to know one another. This new generation has a whole new way of communicating and they are thrilled with it. My son will text me when we are in the car. He plays Xbox live with his friends. They don't even have to be at the same house. Instant messaging, blogging, social networking, wikis -WOW, its amazing. But are their writing skills getting any better. Maybe? but I am also tired of seeing texting in essays and formal writings for school. What will they do when they get a real job- hopefully they will use correct English.
I also agree with librarychick and CSI Investigator about this tech age with less face-to-face contact. I do think students these days don't know how to relate to each other as well, because they're so used to quick textings which are so short and blunt. There isn't any finesse on how to talk to someone. Some people need to get UNplugged from tech devices and get plugged back into PEOPLE (tech may be cool, but it needs to be used more as a tool [it rhymes!] and not a whole life).
I sure hate those ear phone devices people talk on when they're near you; I think people are talking to me and have answered some (feeling lame).
I totally agree with all of the above. Way too much time is being spent blogging, texting, twitting, about absolutely nothing. I'm sure that it interferes with family life, school, work and physical activities. I would love to see statistics on those areas. If the subject is useful and the person blogging keeps this activity to a minimum, I guess it's ok. I don't think I'll use blogs much after I leave here. Now WIKI's is another story! Pick up the phone for pete's sake and talk.
Have you ever asked anyone who works in an office outside of a school setting what it is like with all the texting? I hear about it all the time. Co-workers who are recent graduated degree-earning indivuals at my husband's office text nonstop while at work! If I was the boss, I'd be a little bit concerned about the quantity and quality of WORK being done. OR are we all becoming huge multi-taskers all the time, all day long?
I have read all your rants about our plugged in nation. I want to say that not EVERYONE is a part of that. NOT all students and teens are constantly using cell phones, X-Box, ipods and such. Though I am no longer a teen my friends and I feel a part of that generation. I did not get a cell phone until I was 18 and started college. I do not have an ipod or an X-Box. I have never texted in my life. I feel comfortable on the phone and with face-to-face contact as do my friends. We need to stop generalizing here!
My main issue is not with teenagers over-texting but with adult males that want to date me but still spend all their time playing xbox 360. Rockband is not a substitute for dinner out.
Rachael, I laughed out loud (too long expression for a blogger :) ) when I read your comment about people talking using these ear phone devices I remember myself going to a person and asking:"Excuse me, I didn't hear you well" and then realizing she wasn't talking to me at all. Oh, how embarrassing!
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Now that blogging has become so popular I am wondering if employers will start searching for personal blogs to learn more information about their perspective employees. You have to be careful what you put on Facebook now. Does your blog username hide your identity well?
Blogs and wikis and social networking--oh my!
Am I old fashioned or are we becoming a plugged-in nation? What happened to walking into someone else's room to talk? Or, perhaps, one can just pick up the phone. I had a student who texted his parents FROM HIS BEDROOM! Hello? Is this an issue for anyone else. If I read OMG or LOL on another essay I WILL SCREAM. But maybe that's just me.
Hey, Library Chick I totally agree. What happened to actually talking to someone. How do people REALLY get to know one another. This new generation has a whole new way of communicating and they are thrilled with it. My son will text me when we are in the car. He plays Xbox live with his friends. They don't even have to be at the same house. Instant messaging, blogging, social networking, wikis -WOW, its amazing. But are their writing skills getting any better. Maybe? but I am also tired of seeing texting in essays and formal writings for school. What will they do when they get a real job- hopefully they will use correct English.
I also agree with librarychick and CSI Investigator about this tech age with less face-to-face contact. I do think students these days don't know how to relate to each other as well, because they're so used to quick textings which are so short and blunt. There isn't any finesse on how to talk to someone. Some people need to get UNplugged from tech devices and get plugged back into PEOPLE (tech may be cool, but it needs to be used more as a tool [it rhymes!] and not a whole life).
I sure hate those ear phone devices people talk on when they're near you; I think people are talking to me and have answered some (feeling lame).
I totally agree with all of the above. Way too much time is being spent blogging, texting, twitting, about absolutely nothing. I'm sure that it interferes with family life, school, work and physical activities. I would love to see statistics on those areas. If the subject is useful and the person blogging keeps this activity to a minimum, I guess it's ok. I don't think I'll use blogs much after I leave here. Now WIKI's is another story! Pick up the phone for pete's sake and talk.
Colleen
Have you ever asked anyone who works in an office outside of a school setting what it is like with all the texting? I hear about it all the time. Co-workers who are recent graduated degree-earning indivuals at my husband's office text nonstop while at work! If I was the boss, I'd be a little bit concerned about the quantity and quality of WORK being done. OR are we all becoming huge multi-taskers all the time, all day long?
I have read all your rants about our plugged in nation. I want to say that not EVERYONE is a part of that. NOT all students and teens are constantly using cell phones, X-Box, ipods and such. Though I am no longer a teen my friends and I feel a part of that generation. I did not get a cell phone until I was 18 and started college. I do not have an ipod or an X-Box. I have never texted in my life. I feel comfortable on the phone and with face-to-face contact as do my friends. We need to stop generalizing here!
Sorry yankee- I heartily apologize to you and your generation.
My main issue is not with teenagers over-texting but with adult males that want to date me but still spend all their time playing xbox 360. Rockband is not a substitute for dinner out.
Rachael,
I laughed out loud (too long expression for a blogger :) ) when I read your comment about people talking using these ear phone devices I remember myself going to a person and asking:"Excuse me, I didn't hear you well" and then realizing she wasn't talking to me at all. Oh, how embarrassing!
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