Social Networks Have Shown Reasons For Being Different

As of late, I have begun to get into social networking at a new level of vigor. Even though for the most part the people I communicate with online are the same people I typically see on a daily basis. So why must I be so connected with the same people? Honestly, I have not a clue. But I have noticed that I'm using the functions of social networks to different extents. As Twitter is simply a system of status updates, I am now seeing it as a giant bulletin board that users post to, and each user can discriminate between whom they would like to listen to and what is just noise as usual. Whereas Facebook you can do the same thing, but it's more global to photos, notes, and other comments. Then, there is Myspace - yes I still use Myspace, even with it's declining functions. Myspace is used for the very few people who are stuck two or three years back, it's the passageway for my communication to those who are stuck in the past. You could also include Gmail and Blogger as social networks. These are now daily aspects of life. Gmail, because it's my primary email and I've linked my other emails to it, making it my center point. Then Blogger, I have increased my activity in my posting recently. This I can attribute to attempting to complete Project 365, though it seems like uite a feat to accomplish.
I have different purposes for each social networking site, this might mean I don't have as much of a real life as I do in creating a second one. But, I use each as I see fit, and as I think is just - or how I prefer to use them, as I will talk to someone on Myspace easily, yet on Facebook we really don't communicate like that.

Texting......Is It Worth It?

I am a big fan of texting, as well as any multimedia messaging that doesn't involve verbal communication but gets the point across.  Lately, though, I have noticed some problems with texting :(  Some relate to the barrier of communication thought, as tone of voice from spoken language gives another depth of meaning.  Text communication loses this, unless your recipiant on the other end  understands you well.  The next issue is the fact of not everyone understanding certain characters within text, or per-say the texting language.  Which you would believe only the old folks would be trying to catch up on.  The worst part of texting fro the phone is the damn price! How do you charge $30 for sending texts when it most likely costs only 20 cents to send as many texts as possible within a month?  Okay, I'll give the benefit of the doubt and make it $2 for the month because of borrowing towers, etc.

I'm not sure I'm ready to quit texting though.  Honestly, I absolutely despise talking to people on the phone.  I don't know why, but it's a great pet-peeve of mine.  I enjoy to hold a conversation with someone, just with my mind clear for minutes at a time.  With a phone stuck to my ear I don't feel as if I'm making head-way while I procrastinate.  Texting allows that time interval of sending, waiting for a response in between each text, which is nice so I can write four to five words, or maybe finish a sentence.  Even better with texting, I don't have he obligation to text back.  When I don't want to talk any more I simply stop texting back, on the phone I must hang it up - that makes me feel rude.

So for what it's worth I can't say whether I am really for or against text messaging....not a big help :D  (makes me feel better)

Sports and Sex......There is a Connection

As I was watching the World Cup Qualifier match between El Savlvador and the U.S., the annoucner - who was not Mexican because I was watching it on ESPN and not Telemundo - stated, "This is what the U.S. team needed to do in the first 20-30 minutes of the game: penetrate with energy.  To get in a nd move the ball."  Now being the person I am, I couldn't help but think of how sexually oriented that sounded.  "Penetrate with energy"......just something every guy wants to do, why just penetrate?  By the time he hits that point he'll have plenty of energy - unless he's really old, and needs his blue diamond.

Pondering about this some more, all sports have some type of sexual personae to them.  In almost all sports, there is some type of penetration: wrestling, boxing, MMA all have to penetrate the opponents space; baseball has penetration of the strike zone; soccer, basketball, and football have penetration of the defense to the other end of the field or court.  There's also the connotation of catching balls, blocking balls, and saving balls.

Don't hold most known sports to be the only sexual connections: golf has a person hold a long club to control; hockey has the bigger guys smash into the smaller ones (some what like jail in the movies); rugby puts other players on their shoulders to catch the ball; polo has the player riding a horse to hit a ball with a woden stick.  So many sports have a sexual connections hidden within them, not purposely, but they are there none the less.  Enjoy.

Spin the Bottle...

Spin the bottle, a traditional pass time by many cultures, but is it more dangerous today than it was twenties years ago when our parents were going at this pass time? 

Nowadays, people have diseases, cutsbleeding, sores oozing, just disgusting things.  This could be the age where playing spin the bottle could be like Russian Roulette.  With the disease infestant people around the circle, you might have to kiss a partner that is ridden with VD, granting a long term sickness, that you most likely wont recover from.  

Other comparisons of spin the bottle and Russian Roulette :

• You can play stacked, where there's more than one way to die.  More than 1 bullet, or a semi-automatic gun.  Everyone in the circle has something to offer to the others.
• You can cheat, make sure you won't lose.  Empty the gun.  Position yourself away from the bottle every time it slows your way.
• Winner take all. If you play a couple rounds of Russian Roulette and your the last man standing.  If you spread disease to everyone, or don't get hit with the chance of death at all.

Hip-Hop DX

Looking around for some new music and I found some irony upon my searches.  I was listening to a Rick Ross diss song, and as an ad was a chance to party with none other than Ricky Ross himself.  Here is a link if you can get the ad to pop up.  Hip-Hop DX has provided many leaks to fans, and now they include ironic situations as well.