The other night I was having a conversation with my dad when he commented on how people (in particular, young girls) on facebook are WAY to crazy with what they post online. He doesn't have a facebook himself, THANK GOD, but he's always asking me about my facebook where abouts because of the obnoxious things he hears about facebook. According to him, a week or so ago a mother went to jail after beating her daughter with a broom. The young girl had borrowed her mother's camera to take inappropriate and OVERLY provocative pictures to post on her facebook profile. However, she failed to delete those pictures before giving her mother back her camera, and when her mother found them she gave her a "motherly" beating with a broom!! Well...when the girl's older sister found out about the incident she called DCFs aka the peoples and got her mother arrested. Now the young girl and her siblings are in foster care and her mother is in jail for a few years (I think he told me 7 but I'm 100% sure) because she wanted to put promiscuous pictures on the web.
SMH....I wasn't too shocked about the story but a bit disturbed that the mother went to jail for discipling her child for something that could've caused a lot more harm to her child (such as online pretadors contacting her and other horrible things). However, how dare the older sister "interven" by calling the authorities instead of discipling her sister too for her irresponsible decision.
This story only added to my comment I gave my father about facebook on how people are taking the networking site way TOO far! People are getting outrageous with/over facebook, which more reason why I'm going to follow my brother's foot steps and delete my profile after I graduate from college in a few months.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
My hobby: watching documentaries
Just about every Friday for the past three months I've spent my nights watching documentaries on netflix.com. I can't remember how it all started but now I typically get an urge to watch one or two films after I have spent a few hours writing an editorial piece for my university's newspaper. It's like I feel really compelled to watch something mind stimulating and worthy of my recreational time. When I do watch the documentaries I usually don't have a specific preference of what kind it is but most of the time I choose one that involves music, foreign language (Spanish), dance or social issues. However, now that I think about I guess I can trace these interest back to the Ballet, Human Rights, Women Studies, Spanish and other random classess I've taken as a college student.
Tonight I watched a documentary called "No Impact Man" about a guy and his family deciding to go over and beyond Green for an entire year. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to sit for an hour and a half and watch it but I figured I'd watch the first five minutes of it to see what kind of story line it had. As I sat and watched the film a few emotions and thoughts crept into my head like: 1)Wow. This guy is really serious and dedicated to this cause and I respect him for it.
2)I liked the fact that he didn't just jump right into the idea of doing EVERYTHING at once, but slowly taking steps into fully engaging himself and his family into: buying home grown food, no tv watching, no using toliet paper, no buying anything new, no electricity for 6 months, etc....
3)The positive and negative feedback that he was getting from enivornmentalist, the "average joe" and the media about his project and the questioning of his motives were a bit daunting at times.
4)I enjoyed how he made it through the entire year because he had a very strong support group such as his wife (she was amazing!! despite her couple of times when she cheated), young daughter, friends and the outside help/community organizations.
5)There was a moment in the movie where I saw things getting real, and when I say this I mean the capturing of the family having a real life moment: his wife wanted another child and he didn't. He says in the movie "I rather not talk about this in front of the cameras because this isn't a reality movie/show." I thought to myself 'this is a documentary or atleast that's what it's supposed to be so why not document this issue?' Plus, I saw the scene as an opportunity for me to see if the film was ALL about his project of the process and progression of it.
6) The film seriously had me thinking about all the things that I do and don't do that contributes to harming the environment and the people surrounding me.
I guess in a nut shell the movie sucessfully executed what it intended to do to it's viewer which was to inform us on how to be aware of the issue, think of things to prevent it and how to get involved with fixing it.
Sigh...what a good way to end a OVERLY stressful week and another conversation starter with my other parent (I use his netflix account and he's always asking me about the movies I watch on it. lol).
Tonight I watched a documentary called "No Impact Man" about a guy and his family deciding to go over and beyond Green for an entire year. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to sit for an hour and a half and watch it but I figured I'd watch the first five minutes of it to see what kind of story line it had. As I sat and watched the film a few emotions and thoughts crept into my head like: 1)Wow. This guy is really serious and dedicated to this cause and I respect him for it.
2)I liked the fact that he didn't just jump right into the idea of doing EVERYTHING at once, but slowly taking steps into fully engaging himself and his family into: buying home grown food, no tv watching, no using toliet paper, no buying anything new, no electricity for 6 months, etc....
3)The positive and negative feedback that he was getting from enivornmentalist, the "average joe" and the media about his project and the questioning of his motives were a bit daunting at times.
4)I enjoyed how he made it through the entire year because he had a very strong support group such as his wife (she was amazing!! despite her couple of times when she cheated), young daughter, friends and the outside help/community organizations.
5)There was a moment in the movie where I saw things getting real, and when I say this I mean the capturing of the family having a real life moment: his wife wanted another child and he didn't. He says in the movie "I rather not talk about this in front of the cameras because this isn't a reality movie/show." I thought to myself 'this is a documentary or atleast that's what it's supposed to be so why not document this issue?' Plus, I saw the scene as an opportunity for me to see if the film was ALL about his project of the process and progression of it.
6) The film seriously had me thinking about all the things that I do and don't do that contributes to harming the environment and the people surrounding me.
I guess in a nut shell the movie sucessfully executed what it intended to do to it's viewer which was to inform us on how to be aware of the issue, think of things to prevent it and how to get involved with fixing it.
Sigh...what a good way to end a OVERLY stressful week and another conversation starter with my other parent (I use his netflix account and he's always asking me about the movies I watch on it. lol).
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Stupid Abbreviations...
It's really fascinating and yet stupid how people now-a-days like abbreviating unnecessary words and using them in verbal conversations. For example: I am MORE than positive that you have heard a person say "OMG...." or "BTW..." (this abbreviation took me weeks to figure out cuz its so stupid) to someone they were talking to and the person would fully understand the meaning behind the three letters. Now I can understand why the phrase OMG is abbreviated in text messages or in an IM but to blatantly say it to an individual who is standing right next to you or on the phone? Not cool and jus LAZY! Don't get me wrong...I am a JusCuz kind of person and will create my own lil words/definition of a word and an outlandish phrase but Im not into the new frenzy of abbreviating my words. Another example: I might tell someone to "kick me in my left nut" or "lick my knee cap" but the people that I may tell this to know that I for sure do not own or possess a nut (considering my gender) and would never let a person lick my gross brown knee cap. It's all out of pure enterntainment and me saying things: JusCuz, which is on a totally different level than abbreviating words or phrases JusCuz. {Smh...silly lil nuggets that do it. Let's try to be a bit more creative people.}
New to the game....
It's pretty sad that I am now creating and writing a blog in 2010 at 2:30 in the morning!!! WTF?! How did I keep myself so closed off from the blogging world that long? Psh....my guess would be the same reason it took me many years to finally break down and make a facebook profile too: trying to be a non-conformist. lol. The crazy part about it is that the only reason I created a facebook page was because I didn't know anyone at my University as a freshman and soooo NEEDED to make some friends. Now my reason for having my own personal blog is because I was advised to do because I'm a journalism major and its so taboo to not have a blog and have a desire to be apart of the journalistic world. I know it's a real shame but let's ALL hope the consequences will out weigh my reason for starting: JusCuz!!
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