post 5 missing information

The author predominantly writes about how we lose touch with natural information and basic instincts people used to have and what people used to do, for example, why travel if the travel channel brings you to a new place without leaving the living room.   He then tells of a time when man could walk outdoors, look up to the sky and determine whether the day will hold rain, storms, snow or some other unpleasant weather or if it is going to be a beautiful day.  We type emails and text messages on our phones so why learn penmanship or cursive. People become less social in person because there are things like facebook.  Like in my post about movie theater etiquette and the people of a generation four years younger than me sit in a theater watching a movie while video calling, texting, “facebooking,” and talking to each other across the theater all while messing with their phones because god-forbid they turn it off for 2hrs and 14 minutes of their lives.  When on ipods we become distracted and we stop paying attention to anything that is around us we wont even be able to hear a car that is not stopping for you as you cross the street.  I’ve seen people walking together, however both of them are listening to music so neither of them are talking to each other.  We loss social lives to facebook because communicating to people when not in person is so much easier to do.  Facebook and texts lack emotion ALL CAPS COULD MEAN YELLING or excitement and can be interpreted as either one.  Words can be snooty or mean and angry, unintentionally, but interpreted as such by they reader.  We no longer communicate in person or we are loosing the ability, the knowledge, of how to interact and respond with the people and things around us.  People have 500+ friends on facebook or twitter and it is guaranteed that only +/- 40 of them are actual friends at one point in that person life.  The age of information, communication and learning technology is an age that wipes out previous information that people should know. 

Age of missing info post4

When wearing headphones and listening to music we miss the world. It's really dangerous to do as well. When we are preoccupied with our music we miss everything around us, the sights, the sounds, the people, and the culture. It is also dangerous because when you are distracted things can happen without you being prepared. With tv there are so many things on with so many options that when people are bored they could just change the channel. Is this making people more add and have more disorders because everything is so easy to do and so many choices so people don't learn to sit through things because they can just change the channel.

Homework

Stop copying off of people it does nothing for you. I recently took my placement test for college and the people next to me were studying for it. The point of a placement test is that it shows what you know not what you studied just before the test. The point of homework is so that you know where you need help and were you do not need help. It is practice cheating does not help in the long run and nowhere does using your calculator on the online math placement test that tells you not to use your calculator yet people still would use it. If you cheat and do well you will be placed in a class that is not your level and you will struggle or fail or both. Deerfield highs school has a problem with people wanting to get points for work that they did not do.

The Sheriffs Department gun thing

I saw a story on the news about a sheriff or other deputy exchanged a weapon for not getting a ticket and jail time.  Apparently it is policy for the deopartment as part of a program to get rid of guns.  I disagree with this practice.  There are better ways to eliminate guns than exchanging them for no jail time.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/investigative/demetrius-harris-john-green-says-state-trooper-extorted-him-in-order-to-get-a-gun-20120430

They dont look at it as extortion it is looked at as a way to get guns off the street. I see this as a deal what do you think?

The media: Book post 3

The book brings up some things about the media being able to scare people into doing things or taking action on an issue.  The weather man knows that in order for the growth of food and survival of people it needs to rain; yet every time it does rain is portrayed as something bad or to be feared.  Every time this winter when in snowed less than two inches wasn’t it portrayed on the news as a nasty snow storm moving through our area.  Some times that they predicted a nasty snow storm all of the private schools closed the day before it snowed and we ended up with little to no snow the next day because everthing that fell melted in the morning.  The news tells us the worst case scenario and the worst stories that they could find.  The Michael Moore film on gun control showed examples of this, America sees all these things that only make for interesting stories that would get ratings.  If a kid gets shot people tune in to hear what happened, but if a new stop sign is installed somewhere or someone gets an award for doing something that is not a story.   I’ve seen headline like, “next on [insert news station] find out what is in your apple juice and can it be killing you.” I know that arsenic is in apple juice, but that has been in apple juice long before the story broke about it being in the popular apple drink amongst children. Arsenic is naturally found in apples so it will only be in its natural form and amount when it is in juice form, yet the media ran with it blowing it out of proportion, scaring people, and then saying, “Well it isn’t a big deal, it won’t kill you.” 

The prom

While prom was fun I saw several things that I did not agree with. Prom is a formal event, as it was in everyones attire, however people actions did not reflect the formal occasion that prom is supposed to be. While I danced with my date for a majority of the time there were other people in my prom group that just did not dance until the last song of the evening. This is fine if they decided to just talk to each other for the duration of the dance, but if you have to be on your phone for the entire dance something is wrong. There were several other people on third phones the entire night as well, apparently facebook was a substitute for looking around you because the only thing that they were doing on the phones were looking at everyone else's dresses. The band was not very good "i've got a feeling" is not what I believe to be a good prom dancing song especially when there is no auto tune and it is acoustic. Overall the night was fun, but formal occasion should stay formal occasions.

Post 2 the missing information in the everyday

The author predominantly writes about how we lose touch with natural information and basic instincts people used to have and what people used to do, for example, why travel if the travel channel brings you to a new place without leaving the living room.   He then tells of a time when man could walk outdoors, look up to the sky and determine whether the day will hold rain, storms, snow or some other unpleasant weather or if it is going to be a beautiful day.  We type emails and text messages on our phones so why learn penmanship or cursive. People become less social in person because there are things like facebook.  Like in my post about movie theater etiquette and the people of a generation four years younger than me sitting in a theater watching a movie while video calling, texting, “facebooking,” and talking to each other across the theater all while messing with their phones because god-forbid they turn it off for 2hrs and 14 minutes of their lives.  Technology makes both simple and complicated tasks more easy than they were, but when it does this the human race looses something that is a basic instinct or a piece of common knowledge that everyone should have.  We don’t have to know how to spell any more due to spell check, and phones have the ability to guess at what you want to say before you say it.  SIRI in the iPhone allows people to not even have to type a text, SIRI is your personal stenographer and organizer.  Which way are you going? Probably the only people in the united states that would have to solve this question are frequent backpackers, hikers and military personnel.  GPS, triangulation, turn by turn directions, and compasses in every piece of technology void the use for a paper map and other land navigational skills.  We don’t need to know which way is north because a voice guidance system just tells us when to turn.  This does make it easier to navigate, but it makes the knowledge of how to navigate less and less a part of the collective human necessities.  People get less intelligent and less aware of themselves in the world around them as technology progresses.