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?