Fuckbook.
It's tough to live in a pixellized world which is dominated by Facebook.
It's weird when you see people adding you on facebook but not on MSN. I don't know what to say of such people. I mean like if you want to add me on facebook at least add me on MSN lah, it's more rounded this way and it's easier to talk if there's a need to.
If I didn't have facebook then you won't add me at all? Does this even begin to make sense?
I'd say that this is quite fucked up. You get an email address of your friend, and the first thing you do is check whether he/she has facebook or not. I think email addresses are meant for, as its name suggests, EMAILS.
Just because facebook is around doesn't mean that you have to prioritize adding your 'friend' on facebook rather than MSN first.
Also, it is very weird to be told that I am a friend of my friends only after 3months. When you add a friend, they put stuff like 'XXXXXXXX is now your friend'.
So XXXXXXX(I forgot how many X-es) was never my friend until facebook came along and helped us connect? Thanks for telling me who my friends are, facebook.
Not that I hate it, I play restaurant city there anyway. But that it is a bit weird to see people adding and talking to you through the facebook IM rather than through MSN.
I mean like, I KNOW MY FRIENDS. I know who they are, and I know who are 'friends' only in name in Facebook. I know it's taking over the lives of many, and intruding the lives of all users. If you clicked on the previous link you'd understand that stalkers on facebook can download the pictures of your camwhoring escapades and upload them as porn-like stuff on sites.
People don't know about cyber-wellness well enough. So much for being 'teenagers' and supposedly more matured.
I'm pedantic but I hope that that explains my post title. I only just named it after all, and wondered whether it fit in or not. Pardon me.
But I'm still waiting for that guy to add me on MSN.
I read the newspapers on Sunday. There was this article about a 4 year old boy who has his own laptop and spends hours on youtube and surfing the net and probably gaming.
And then I read about the other kids, their addiction, and how their parents 'control' their computer addiction(in a pussified way).
Look, parents(if any are reading in the first place),
here's a good guide on how to teach your children.
You own them. They are your kids. I don't see how/why you can't stop them from playing the computer.
There are many ways to stop your kid from playing the computer.
1) Don't buy it. Even if you buy a computer, leave it in your room and keep it locked at all times. Business only.
2) Password protect it. Kids aren't entertained when they see a black screen at start-up with a small box requesting for a password when they don't have it.
3) Spike the chair. As in literally glue spikes onto the computer chair(make sure the chair isn't mobile and the computer can only be played there). This way the kid has to stand up and play, or sit down and play in pain. Either way, they'd be exercising and that's a plus.
I used to have dial-up connection, and we only get like 13hours of Internet connection every month. So whenever my sis/I wanted to play, we had to book-in(we had a small book for such registration purposes) and write down how many hours in total we played, if not we'd overshoot and have to pay extra.
Being taught frugality made me play less. And then broadband came along and screwed my life up.
But the moral of the story is, just deprive the kids of the computer and they will have to do stuff like play with marbles, watch TV, run around at the playground, and perhaps do homework.
I have a younger cousin who is addicted to the computer. His results(and him) are getting screwed. It's not like I didn't try stopping him, but that if the mother does weird stuff behind my back like telling him 'it's ok just carry on playing', there really is nothing I can do.
Sometimes I really want to beat him to whack some sense into him but I CAN'T. I love him a lot(as a cousin duh =.=) but I can't hit him because, well, he's my cousin. I don't have power over him. And speeches and scoldings doesn't work.
Which is why it pisses me off all over the place when the parents interviewed expressed in the article that 'they are grown up now, I can't control them, so the best I could do is limit them' or something along those lines. No shit? I told my mum that she can remove the computer if she really feels that I'm truly madly deeply addicted to the computer. But I also assured her that I'd probably go LAN or something.
But the kids in question are like primary school students, and a freaking 4 year old. Like wtf you can't control a 4 year old kid? You aren't fit to be a parent. Not that I am, but I'm pretty damn sure that I can at least stop my kids from playing the computer.
After all I'd rather my kids hate me than love the computer more than me.
I can't say I'm not addicted to gaming, but I can assure everyone that I'd rather go out and play than stay at home and stone in front of pixels just to wait for things to happen. I don't really enjoy going out, but it all depends on the company and the point in going out.
How does this all relate to the newspaper article? The article is bullshit. You, as a parent, can control your child. You have the rights to smack him/her whenever you want to. Don't say that you can't, you can, because we're not Canada(it's illegal to hit your children there).
Just whack, it brings the point across clearly. If you're looking for an example of a man with perfect moral fibre and character due to caning you're reading the blog of one such person.
You're born with hands to:
1) Write
2) Eat
3) Beat
4) Wank,
so why shortchange your hand when it can do so much more than to write and eat with?
Which reminds me, some of those kids are already using 'social networking sites'(ie paedophile haven), such as facebook. These are the people who'd grow up to be like the person I mentioned above--the kind that adds you only on facebook.
By the way the moral of the story regarding the facebook guy above is that he's not interested in friendship, he's interested in viewership and headcounts of how many 'friends' he has. So linking back to here, kids would grow up to learn more about this headcount shit. Tell me there's a point.
I know people are lazy and probably won't bother clicking the link above so I'd quote the ending of his post:
If you love your kids, love them enough to beat them so that they don't grow up to be idiots.
-- 6/16/2009 12:13:00 AM
