Facebook is the devil

Why do we all love to waste hours of time on Facebook?

Why must we scour the ends of the website in search of random bits of information about our friends and family?

Since when has talking on the phone and in person been replaced by looking up somebody on Facebook and learning about them on a table of records? Why is that acceptable?

I recently did a multi genre research project on the social effects of Facebook on college students. The results basically make me want to delete my Facebook altogether.

I don't think that people surfing the site understand that any bit of information that they post on Facebook are still owned by the individual. All the information posted is owned privately by Facebook. Its nice that they give you options to delete, modify, and protect the information using privacy controls, because technically, its theirs and they can do whatever they want with it.

I don't know if I want random people to know that I'm addicted to Deadmau5, or that I like photography and the drums, or any of that information that seems so useless that I might as well post it anyway. Posting the information does give someone a personal identity on the Internet, and they do become more individualized as the amount of data they upload to the site increases. But putting all this data on the Internet could possibly come back to haunt someone. For example, having pictures of you and an ex-girlfriend you no longer associate with still uploaded to Facebook might mean that you're going to have people asking you about those pictures, and could stand as evidence against you in a legal issue. Or having "LGBT UNITED" as one of your groups up on Facebook might lead people to believe you are actually part of the LGBT community, altering their perceptions of you.

(But really, if people stop associating with you because you join a group based on alternate forms of sexuality, chances are that those people cannot handle being open minded about the connections and friends they make, and that probably casts more of a negative appeal to them than you)

I think social networking is pretty over rated, after thinking long and hard about it. I have a friend (who I will not name, because this person absolutely loves their privacy) that doesn't own a facebook. I used to question why my friend didn't, because this friend was one of the most popular people at my high school, and it seemed almost impossible for him to have so many connections without a facebook. I asked them about it several different times, and they responded with answers that really didn't make sense to me. At the time, I couldn't see myself without a Facebook: It was my second most used form of communication with my friends, following physical communication. I thought about it for months before I realized why:
If you don't have a facebook, your information won't be on the Internet for everyone to see, which in turn makes you mysterious. And this forces people to text you or call you to meet up, and this in turn makes people want to be with you. And because people are now coming to you through your cell phone, you can more easily choose who you want to respond to or not, giving you more control of your friends and personal information than facebook could ever give you. This is a good thing.
Not having a facebook makes you a more popular person in the long run, because the simple fact that people can't access all your personal information at once makes other people want to be with you. Its a bit of simple reverse psychology: people want that forbidden fruit, the thing they can't have. If people can't have your information, they will go to greater lengths to get it, which only means good things for you.

I might have to say goodbye to my Facebook. I want control.

I'm on a...plane?

I'm on blogspot while flying a plane! How amazing this world is, to be able to be on a plane going 447mph at 30000 feet above sea level while surfing the internet is nothing short of fantastic.

Anyways... I wanted to write a couple words about Delta Airlines. They might be my new favorite airline. I'm currently on a 767 and in front of every seat there is the coolest media center touchscreen television I've ever seen, at least on a plane. I turned on the device expecting the normal 30 some odd channels of satellite tv, and maybe a couple of okay movies you can buy at ridiculously high prices. But this was so much more than that. There's on demand TV programs for a dollar, a scrolling map of your airplane to the world, an extensive database of movies all at 6 dollars a piece, an HBO section for 2 dollars a piece, and the part that made me absolutely giddy: a music section. This music section has saved CD albums that you can play on demand from the TV for free. They far exceeded my expectations for the album and genre sections too... I mean, I was listening to Tiesto and deadmau5 on the damn thing! Dance collections? Proper ones? It made me absolutely giddy.

That wasn't it either. The plane was loads cleaner than an American Airline plane. there wasn't a speck of trash for my eyes to be blighted by. Seriously.

so yeah... Delta airlines, You rock.

Ponder turkeys

Today I saw the most beautiful sunset in my entire life, and I used the FxCamera on my droid to take some sweet looking cross processed-like pictures. I thought they were so good that I plugged my Droid into my Asus laptop, downloaded them, and proceeded to upload them to my now Pro Flickr account. Unfortunately the wireless network at my school ground to a halt as soon as I began to upload them, and I didn't have the chance to. Go figure, technology.

heh, get it! I hit a wall with the wireless internet... Perhaps a... firewall?
I jest.

I have the photos on my computer now... Here's one:

Sucks that they came out so small... FxCamera has a resolution limiter for some reason, so even though I take a photo with a 5 megapixel camera, its only recording like 3.

The beginning

statement of purpose:
This blog is meant to keep my strange thoughts recorded and organized in a chronological fashion, in order to keep my sanity.
I frequently have the strangest thoughts and experiences, and I thought that maybe someone out there might like to hear them. I think that my thoughts are sort of entertaining.

Plushbrains:
Came up with this randomly. I thought that I should relate it to my brain, and it should be random and fluffy. who doesn't like fluffy stuff?



I'll try and update it regularly. I hope you tell your friends about this site if you like it.


Regards,
  Kyle