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It's been a while since I've last posted anything online, and I figured it was right to come back to my first online home to check around and see what's new. So far as I look, not too much. Same people, same buttons, same arguments, same forums. The internet's a changing realm as people sign online and sign off in their regular lives, plugging into cellphones and blackberries like defibrillator's and iron lungs, like it's what they need to stay alive, a constant data stream saying "here I am! I'm online! My little icon is green, it means I'm alive! I can talk to people, text people, send pictures, movies, music and porn all around the world!" Technology is grand, but there's a transition going on here- far from the novelty it once was, now the net is almost a requirement, a cell phone no longer a luxury, but a turning point- almost an American rite of initiation if you will. I'm working at a college right now and I see students walking around, heads down, murmuring into thier phones and iPods, heads banging as they move around in the world they're missing. It's a little different, as we try to deal with it, phones off please, it's that little red button in the corner you've NEVER TOUCHED BEFORE, you'd swear that instead of a uniform, it's a surgeon's smock you're wearing, and you're severing an umbilical cord.
Just had to ventilate those sentiments, incoming freshmen glued to cellphones 24/7- nightmares.
""As I sit before the fire, I wonder how many before myself have been burned.'"
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