Letter: Heule on Facebook
Dear Editor:
I’m going to guess that everyone on this campus has gone onto some form of social networking site within the last few weeks to see what trivial things are running through people’s heads. I don’t know if it’s just me, but there seems to be a lot of idiotic things put up on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Here are a few good examples:
“someone should text me.. like now. thanks. (:”
“Got my hair cut.”
“Some one order 40 mickdubals it seams like the drive threw line is going slow!”
Now, these ramblings point out two good points: One, society’s grammar abilities are dropping at a terrible rate, and two, people post things that no one really cares about.
Maybe once in a blue moon, someone out there who isn’t your mommy might find it interesting that you got a haircut, but other than that, everybody else just scrolls by the post, looking for juicy stories, such as two individuals fighting in the comment section of a picture of Barack Obama. Social media has turned our generations into blabbering idiots. With sites like Facebook, people use it as a “stream of consciousness” mechanism, meaning they don’t really think about the repercussions of what they are saying.
It is that logic that leads to people posting things like, “Okay listen here. I may have faked a pregnance for what 2 days, but that DOESN’T make me a bad person.. You sleep with other peoples boyfriend so yea that does make you a bad person. What I did was wrong and what you did was wrong!”; If you were in that same position, would you have announced it to the world via the Internet? She could have had her parents as her friends, making it really awkward around the dinner table when apparently your daughter faked being pregnant.
It is the “stream of consciousness” mentality that is polluting Facebook with posts written by uneducated buffoons and egotistical individuals.
And before you ask, yes. Every single one of these statuses is a legitimate post that I have seen on my Facebook, but of course, names have been left out so some people can still retain their dignity. If you aren’t somewhat worried at what these people are saying, you should be. More and more people with that same mindset are graduating from high school and college everyday. Can society really afford to let people like that become important individuals in America (ex. George W. Bush)? We should be focusing on the bigger picture, rather than what is on a computer screen.
—Richard Heule III,
Freshman,
of Hemingford
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