Are you addicted?
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 10:18 PM
Monday, December 21, 2009
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- Name: Mr. Carlisle
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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20 Comments:
I guess you could say it is my "marshmellow"
7:25 AM
In that case the majority of the kids out of the 2,000+ have facebook as their "marshmallow". Including myself.
1:56 PM
I have a Facebook, bu I have never let mself get addicted to it... I am not really a computer junkie sometimes I dont even check my e-mail for a week at a time.
2:27 PM
Fill me in on this marshmallow thing. I don't get it.
3:21 PM
I sense sarcasm.
If not, It's on page deux of the article.
4:12 PM
Perhaps my ability to think critically about that addiction article and construct a well thought out response has been hindered by my facebook addiction.
I think I did overuse facebook, more so in highschool, in college I hardly ever add people or initiate conversations. But ever since I've been back in town for break I've been using facebook way more. I think the answer is clear; suburbia and dissatisfaction with one's life (highschool) bring about the use of illicit substances like facebook.
8:26 PM
I'm addicted to facebook and have over 800 friends... It's hard out here in the 'burbs.
8:27 PM
I considered deleting my Facebook but can't bring myself to do so, which is I guess rather pathetic. I definitely became less active on it once I realized that the amount of time I spend on it and the amount of intrinsic value I got out of Facebook was extremely disproportionate.. and the irony is that Kyle and I are talking on Facebook right now.
THE INTERNETS ARE TAKING OVER
Hi Carlisle..!
8:34 PM
I think Facebook addiction is an increasing problem. It's really a snowball effect. The more you use it the harder it is to get away. I also was once addicted, just as Kyle said. I found that time limits didn't work because I would simply ignore them. The best way to end the addiction is cold turkey.
I have a real beef with Facebook. I feel like despite all of it's glory, it really does more harm than good. Young people are becoming more and more unwilling to actually take action for something they believe in. It seems so simple to join a Facebook group to support your cause. "Oh yeah I think that's terrible. In fact I joined that cause on Facebook". But people need to separate themselves from the world of technology where things aren't actually real, where they aren't tangible. It doesn't matter how many people say they support something, but it matters what they're willing to do.
Facebook is making an entire generation of humans completely passive. We need to end Facebook and the fluoridation of water.
8:35 PM
And jesus, my grammar is terrible in the above post..
8:35 PM
I also support ending the fluoridation of water, so I joined a facebook group for it...
8:37 PM
Good work kyle! I should too. Maybe one day if we get like a million people lawl to join a group to end the fluoridation of water we could break a world rekord!!!1! Like omg then we could be in the book. And they won't do anything about the water but we'll be famous!
8:38 PM
Stephen, at least we will have our dignity and a clean conscience. Our morals will thank us!
8:42 PM
Exactly Stephen, and we can put stuff on the group page like,
"Fluoride was used by Nazis to sterilize inmates and make them docile. Fluoride is a key dumbing down ingredient of Prozac and Sarin nerve gas -- poisons of choice for tyrant rats."
8:43 PM
Exactly, Kyle. Then people will know and possibly understand our point, but still no one will do anything about it. If anyone even proposed writing our senators about it people would go find another Facebook cause to talk about where everyone is bound together in taking no action. Cool!
8:56 PM
well it is also possible that some or many people do not have a problem with the fluoridation of water. we cant always assume that facebook is an accurate portrayer of how the world is taking action, it is merely a social networking system. however i do agree in that facebook is pretty addicting, i wish i had a more insightful analysis of this but really thats all i can draw out of it, facebook is addicting, but i'm not sure yet how to assess observation.
hey carlisles! and others
10:13 PM
Whoa, the blog is exploding old school tonight. I miss the blog. My current students appear to have little use for it these days. However, I haven't been too inspired to put a lot of stuff up on the blog either. Oh well.
I miss you guys!
Regarding FB, I joined a few months ago and holding out for a long time. I like to use it talk with people across the country. I HATE talking on the phone. I'm far from addicted however.
I do think all this social media runs the risk of making people passive. I think Stephen raises an excellent point there. Face to face conversations seem to be on the wane. Honestly, I think texting is the real evil.
11:25 PM
Mr. Carlisle,
I miss you and your great class. It appears the students today just don't appreciate the greatness of the blog. Sigh.
I also dislike talking on the phone very much, and I use Facebook primarily to keep in touch with people on the west coast when I'm in the east, and on the east coast when I'm in the west. I also use it to talk to my friends in the UK and South America. I used to waste hours a day just doing nothing on it but those days are over.
I am very much pro texting, but I am very much anti text-lingo. I feel like it just promotes laziness. It's not really any harder to type out a full word. And terms like "lol" just eliminate any sense of personality or description. More often than not, when someone says "lol" it's not because they're laughing but because they have nothing else to say. Perhaps we would see a general improvement in the socialization of young people if we learned to deal with something as simple as running out of things to say, instead of just saying a default response that is void of reason or emotion.
8:01 PM
Stephen,
You have become a warrior-poet.
10:19 PM
Carlisle, are you aware that there is a fan page on facebook called "Carlisle Fanatics?"
9:57 AM
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