OMG! Moms on Facebook

ENG480 Reflective essay# 2

(120-150 words)

"We're getting to a place where having something like a Facebook account is as normal as having e-mail or a cell phone." Or a spy camera.

"My mother was going to rent a room to a medical student, but after she looked at the student's Facebook page of drunken debauchery, she said no way," said Sandi Svoboda, 41, a writer for Metro Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Detroit.

Older users, Mr. Stutzman added, tend to prefer Facebook to MySpace, which is garish and loud -- you can have your favorite rock song blaring when you open it -- and peppered with big fat Fox ads (the site's owned by Rupert Murdoch) "and you can spam all your friends," he added. Facebook's friendlier, more intimate template resembles those freshman facebooks you studied so intently in college, or an online scrapbook for photos and messages.

Older Facebook users, however, face issues never contemplated by college students.
What if your boss "friends" you and you don't want to be her friend? How many friends are too many? Most studies say that the friends we care about most number, on average, around 10. What does that say, then, about the person with 1,000 "friends?" (Facebook draws the line at 5,000).

Most important, what to do with the friend request from someone you haven't seen in decades? It's not a problem for an 18-year old user, but an all-too-common one for the 54-year-old on Facebook.

Source: Sunday, February 01, 2009 By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The new bloggers

for days, when i returned home from school, i saw a trace of invaders. not certain if those're from Mars or any planets. What i saw was dry and wet straws piled up on my corridor. At first, i cleaned them up, and wondered if the monsoon wind might blow them in. Days later, i was too lazy to sweep the floor. In stead, I looked up at the air-conditioing hanging on the wall. surprised!! There're a few pieces of straws up there too!! So, that's interesting.

my mission as a spy, thus, began.

welcome ENG380 BrandNEW managers

hi there,

it's been a long time i haven't dusted off my blog!

The 2010 class is quite unique; i'm so proud of you.

i can feel the power houses around me.

i'm so delighted to see you grow.

i know the first step isn't that easy.

i'm sure you will and you can.

our effort will pay off one day.

will go together...'Englishers 2010

much love, President G