Edward Marshall. “Burglar leaves his Facebook page on victim’s computer.” The Journal. Retrieved September 22, 2009, from http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/525232.html.
Due to my summer commitment, I was recently without internet for 2 months. Though the urge to check my email was ever present (as I applied for a co-op job and wanted to check for updates), I never really missed “being out of touch.” And then I hear about a kid who is so addicted in Facebook such that he would take the time to check his account while robbing someone’s house. What is so important that you couldn’t wait 20 more minutes and browse the site at the comfort of your own home, possibly away from law enforcement pursuit? Now, perhaps I just don’t have enough friends, but it only takes me maybe 10 minutes every once in a while to stalk…er…to check out what my closest friends are doing, any more time just leaves me bored and determined to pursue some other procrastinating methods. Now before I start doing my weekly readings, let me check my notification tray for new email and RSS feeds…
A Computer Science student who wishes to be in Arts if only she could write better...
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I nearly choked on my raspberries when I read that. I should not be eating in front of the computer. Just having Facebook mentioned makes me want to go check if anything is new on Facebook. … Ok done checking, nothing interesting this time. Personally, I’d go through serious withdrawal from being away from the internet for a few days.