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The Daily Barometer Editorial Board
Issue date: 3/11/09 Section: Forum
Pop quiz: What is a bumper sticker?
A) The label that comes on a baby walker.
B) Another Facebook application.
C) Those stickers on cars that say things like, "My child is an honor student at Sunrise Middle School."
Taking a look at your bookmarks on Firefox or Safari - might Facebook, MySpace, even Twitter be listed? If you are a college student or younger this probably is the case, even if you don't want to admit that you might "have a problem."
Let's face it - we are a different breed from our parents. We have developed the perfect way to text on our Blackberries. Heck, Urban Dictionary even defines something called a "Blackberry Prayer." But if you don't know what Urban Dictionary is, you are now behind the times.
It is dead week on the OSU campus and everyone is looking for a distraction - The Daily Barometer only lasts so long once you read it through one time - so why not update your status every five seconds?
Be careful what you post and please try and be creative. A Philadelphia Eagles employee took to his Facebook status recently, to criticize a move his team made, and then lost his job.
For the rest of us, we can only look at so many "at the library" statuses before we feel guilty for indulging our minds in a Judd Apatow movie marathon rather than studying.
Since MySpace is only good for finding new music these days, we're on to Twitter. Is it necessary for there to be an entire website that is just a Facebook status? The answer is a resounding "yes!" even though Twitter is essentially Facebook status on crack. There is no real reason for it, but we do it anyway.
Nearly everyone is tweeting these days, from The New York Times to Dr. Drew. Even porn stars twitter (now that is a read worth studying in your Literary Criticism class).
But the question is, what is the next technological fad to come our way? What happens when Facebook begins to die off? When Twitter has tweeted its last tweet to the tweedles?
A) The label that comes on a baby walker.
B) Another Facebook application.
C) Those stickers on cars that say things like, "My child is an honor student at Sunrise Middle School."
Taking a look at your bookmarks on Firefox or Safari - might Facebook, MySpace, even Twitter be listed? If you are a college student or younger this probably is the case, even if you don't want to admit that you might "have a problem."
Let's face it - we are a different breed from our parents. We have developed the perfect way to text on our Blackberries. Heck, Urban Dictionary even defines something called a "Blackberry Prayer." But if you don't know what Urban Dictionary is, you are now behind the times.
It is dead week on the OSU campus and everyone is looking for a distraction - The Daily Barometer only lasts so long once you read it through one time - so why not update your status every five seconds?
Be careful what you post and please try and be creative. A Philadelphia Eagles employee took to his Facebook status recently, to criticize a move his team made, and then lost his job.
For the rest of us, we can only look at so many "at the library" statuses before we feel guilty for indulging our minds in a Judd Apatow movie marathon rather than studying.
Since MySpace is only good for finding new music these days, we're on to Twitter. Is it necessary for there to be an entire website that is just a Facebook status? The answer is a resounding "yes!" even though Twitter is essentially Facebook status on crack. There is no real reason for it, but we do it anyway.
Nearly everyone is tweeting these days, from The New York Times to Dr. Drew. Even porn stars twitter (now that is a read worth studying in your Literary Criticism class).
But the question is, what is the next technological fad to come our way? What happens when Facebook begins to die off? When Twitter has tweeted its last tweet to the tweedles?
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