Chrisoula Mouliatis discusses the dynamics of the Facebook-aided relationships:
Valentine’s Day is over, and Cupid is gone until next year. Some people are still celebrating because the love of their life has just made their relationship Facebook-official. Or, for those who spent the day solo, they’re celebrating the end of the day that reminded them of how obviously alone they really are.
If anyone has been on Facebook lately, they can view the new pictures being posted while they develop a nauseous feeling in the pit of their stomach. Dating is definitely not the same ball game it used to be. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, provides members with relationship options from “Single” to “It’s complicated” and they can be looking for “Friendship” or “Random Play.” If you put all of these options together with millions of college students, drama, or hilarity, will ensue.
There are many steps to get to that serious point in a relationship. First, it is meeting the person, and then talking, hanging out, dating, and finally, after some time, commitment.
What’s missing? The big factor now being thrown into play is being facebooked. Nowadays, it is as if nobody is paying attention to what really makes a relationship last because apparently the most important aspect of our love lives boils down to whether or not it’s facebook official. The stability of relationships is hovering over a very thin line, or link. There are some people out there who choose to stay in a relationship because they can’t bring themselves to end it.
Well, Ffacebook has a solution for that. The bright blue link labeled “Cancel Relationship” is readily available for those in need. Click on that link, and the next time someone checks out their News Feed, there will be a broken red heart next to some poor soul’s name.
“Stuff like that really makes relationships seem unimportant or trivial because nobody really cares how long, or what you’ve been through to be in that relationship. I feel like I’m in junior high again the way people treat their love lives over the internet. It’s like writing, ‘Do you like me? Circle yes or no,’” saidays Caroline Cunningham, freshman English major.
Another developing issue is the fact that some Aggies are not so computer savvy, and they prefer getting their information firsthand. The problem with that is Ffacebook is the first source to receive all of the breaking news.
Maybe it's the excitement of a new relationship that just provokes somebody to post it on the internet for all of the world to see, but while that is taking place, it seems best friends are being left in the dark. Not everybody is facebook- obsessed to where they check it every hour of the day to read every bit of their News Feed to see what's going on in the world. Some people just don't have access to a computer all of the time. Or , dare I say it; some people simply may have better things to do.
So, what happens to those people is they end up being completely misinformed. Such exciting events are best heard in person where a friend can really get all of the intimate details. Ultimately, friends are feeling left out, feelings are hurt, and a bruised ego will not go unnoticed for long.
Friends should always come before Ffacebook. Face- to- face conversations are much more enjoyable than wall posts. Some could argue that, but theThe point is that relationships need more substance behind them than a cutesy little heart, and friends should be the first to know. The fact that a two- year relationship is not official unless it’s on facebook is ridiculous, and one click of the mouse is all it takes to break up with someone looks just a little too convenient and cold-hearted to me.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Ringing in the new year
Year of the Pig
Travis Holland tells how to ring in the Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year is a 15 day celebration, and it starts today. This is the Year of the Pig, so everyone needs to make it a good one for our favorite cuddly farm animal. To do the holiday justice, you should be well prepared.
Day One: Don’t eat meat unless you want a short and unhappy life.
Day Two: Be nice to dogs and give them a double scoop of Kibbles and Bits. Today is every dog’s birthday. Married daughters should visit their parents.
Day Three: Today is not a good day to visit. Everyone will be irritable from the fried food and relationships could suffer. Steer clear of friends and family or you’ll have some seriously bad luck.
Day Four: See Day Three.
Day Five: Today is Po Wu. Shoot fireworks. Don’t cut your hair unless you want to have the worst year ever.
Day Six: Pray and resume visiting friends and family. Jam your favorite Chinese music.
Day Seven: Today is going to be busy for farmers. First, they have to display all their produce. Then they have to make a drink from vegetables. After that they have to drink it. Today is also the birthday of all mankind, so order your cake well in advance. Eat noodles if you want a long life and raw fish if you care to be successful.
Day Eight: Sleep off Day Seven and have a family reunion.
Day Nine: Make your best offering to the Jade Emperor. Continue sleeping off Day Seven.
Day Ten: Today invite everyone you know to dinner, and feed them the best, most expensive food you can.
Day Eleven: Repeat Day Ten, but do it even bigger.
Day Twelve: Day Eleven x 2.
Day Thirteen: By now everyone is tired of the good food. Eat only rice and mustard greens.
Day Fourteen: Prepare for tomorrow’s blowout party.
Day Fifteen: Today is the lantern festival. Decorated lanterns will be everywhere, and people will run through the streets in paper dragons. This is also the Chinese Valentine’s Day, so cards and flowers may be expected of you.
Travis Holland tells how to ring in the Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year is a 15 day celebration, and it starts today. This is the Year of the Pig, so everyone needs to make it a good one for our favorite cuddly farm animal. To do the holiday justice, you should be well prepared.
Day One: Don’t eat meat unless you want a short and unhappy life.
Day Two: Be nice to dogs and give them a double scoop of Kibbles and Bits. Today is every dog’s birthday. Married daughters should visit their parents.
Day Three: Today is not a good day to visit. Everyone will be irritable from the fried food and relationships could suffer. Steer clear of friends and family or you’ll have some seriously bad luck.
Day Four: See Day Three.
Day Five: Today is Po Wu. Shoot fireworks. Don’t cut your hair unless you want to have the worst year ever.
Day Six: Pray and resume visiting friends and family. Jam your favorite Chinese music.
Day Seven: Today is going to be busy for farmers. First, they have to display all their produce. Then they have to make a drink from vegetables. After that they have to drink it. Today is also the birthday of all mankind, so order your cake well in advance. Eat noodles if you want a long life and raw fish if you care to be successful.
Day Eight: Sleep off Day Seven and have a family reunion.
Day Nine: Make your best offering to the Jade Emperor. Continue sleeping off Day Seven.
Day Ten: Today invite everyone you know to dinner, and feed them the best, most expensive food you can.
Day Eleven: Repeat Day Ten, but do it even bigger.
Day Twelve: Day Eleven x 2.
Day Thirteen: By now everyone is tired of the good food. Eat only rice and mustard greens.
Day Fourteen: Prepare for tomorrow’s blowout party.
Day Fifteen: Today is the lantern festival. Decorated lanterns will be everywhere, and people will run through the streets in paper dragons. This is also the Chinese Valentine’s Day, so cards and flowers may be expected of you.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Mardi Gras
The 20th is Mardi Gras.
Forget the tests. Forget the homework. Forget your professors.
The 20th is Mardi Gras.
If you plan on going crazy this year, try to do it in New Orleans. They've got their PR guys going full force on trying to bring some life and cash to the city. It's been a year and a half since Louisiana got rocked by Katrina, and since some of you are going to get wasted anyway, you might as well help out our neighbors to the east and party there.
Katrina costs the nation $84 billion. Put some of your alcohol money back into the system. Paint New Orleans red.
Try to get back safe, too.
Forget the tests. Forget the homework. Forget your professors.
The 20th is Mardi Gras.
If you plan on going crazy this year, try to do it in New Orleans. They've got their PR guys going full force on trying to bring some life and cash to the city. It's been a year and a half since Louisiana got rocked by Katrina, and since some of you are going to get wasted anyway, you might as well help out our neighbors to the east and party there.
Katrina costs the nation $84 billion. Put some of your alcohol money back into the system. Paint New Orleans red.
Try to get back safe, too.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
How I roll
Some of you may have noticed some changes on the opinion page. Some of you have voiced your concerns. Some of you more civilly than others.
There is method to the madness, people. I wasn't put in this position to piss you off; I leave that to my writers. I'm here to entertain and inform you — and to bring you back to the page time and time again.
Believe me when I say that more people are reading the opinion page than any other time in recent history. I'm proud of the page, and proud of my writers that made the page what it is.
But change does not happen overnight.
Does the page need more serious columns — more "hard-hitting" opinions? Yes, of course it does. I agree with those that say we need more serious topics on the page. It will happen. Three days an entire semester does not make. Relax with the red-alert "this is the worst opinion page in the history of the free world" attitude.
All I care about is making my readers happy. You are my readers. This page does not exist without your support, and the opinion page has got more readership now than I can remember it ever having. For that, I thank you guys.
However, I get a lot of e-mails asking for us to form opinions on stuff that the students "really care about." We've solicited you guys for ideas on what to cover before. Remember when we asked to send in the five most important things that bother/concern you at Texas A&M? We would have loved to turn that into a full-blown, week-long storyline.
Problem is, only four people responded. Don't tell us to run stuff you want to hear if you're not gonna tell us what that is. If this new style really offends you, then pick up last year's Battalion. That's not how we're going to do things here from now on. Ask yourself this — do you really want to hear about the Iraq war or latest in healthcare legislation every single day? If you do, pick up a Washington Times. We're a little more creative here. This is a college paper, and is thus open for experimentation. I know many people fear change, but change happens.
I've got two paid spots open for opinion writers. If you hate the opinion page, come change it.
There is method to the madness, people. I wasn't put in this position to piss you off; I leave that to my writers. I'm here to entertain and inform you — and to bring you back to the page time and time again.
Believe me when I say that more people are reading the opinion page than any other time in recent history. I'm proud of the page, and proud of my writers that made the page what it is.
But change does not happen overnight.
Does the page need more serious columns — more "hard-hitting" opinions? Yes, of course it does. I agree with those that say we need more serious topics on the page. It will happen. Three days an entire semester does not make. Relax with the red-alert "this is the worst opinion page in the history of the free world" attitude.
All I care about is making my readers happy. You are my readers. This page does not exist without your support, and the opinion page has got more readership now than I can remember it ever having. For that, I thank you guys.
However, I get a lot of e-mails asking for us to form opinions on stuff that the students "really care about." We've solicited you guys for ideas on what to cover before. Remember when we asked to send in the five most important things that bother/concern you at Texas A&M? We would have loved to turn that into a full-blown, week-long storyline.
Problem is, only four people responded. Don't tell us to run stuff you want to hear if you're not gonna tell us what that is. If this new style really offends you, then pick up last year's Battalion. That's not how we're going to do things here from now on. Ask yourself this — do you really want to hear about the Iraq war or latest in healthcare legislation every single day? If you do, pick up a Washington Times. We're a little more creative here. This is a college paper, and is thus open for experimentation. I know many people fear change, but change happens.
I've got two paid spots open for opinion writers. If you hate the opinion page, come change it.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Beat them at their own game
If you had told me before the game that Texas would score 82 points on us, I would've laughed in your face.
They did, and we still took it. Hung a century mark on their broken horns.
Given our mode of play, and how it favored the UT style of up-tempo offense all night long, it's nice to blow out the (supposedly) 25th best team in the nation when it's all said and done. Perhaps those analysts critical of our offensive punch will shut up for a while. We pushed it just as well as they could, and we did it in constant foul trouble.
Let's not forget how the refs were doing their best to make it a fair game. Kirk and Jones both foul out, and while Dickie is busy giving our eulogy, we show Texas just how deep our bench can be. Davis took up the slack when he had to, and Sloan puts up double digit points. We've answered two questions tonight: What about foul trouble? What about offensively explosive teams?
We've got the bench, and we can be just as explosive.
I know this is gonna sound silly, but it's almost like Gillispie saw how his team was running it's ass off, and seeing an opportunity to show the world what we're made of, he let them keep going. When we had to play D, we did, and we did it with ragtag rotations of people who kept coming in and out.
I can't wait to face Texas and Kansas in the Big XII tourney.
They did, and we still took it. Hung a century mark on their broken horns.
Given our mode of play, and how it favored the UT style of up-tempo offense all night long, it's nice to blow out the (supposedly) 25th best team in the nation when it's all said and done. Perhaps those analysts critical of our offensive punch will shut up for a while. We pushed it just as well as they could, and we did it in constant foul trouble.
Let's not forget how the refs were doing their best to make it a fair game. Kirk and Jones both foul out, and while Dickie is busy giving our eulogy, we show Texas just how deep our bench can be. Davis took up the slack when he had to, and Sloan puts up double digit points. We've answered two questions tonight: What about foul trouble? What about offensively explosive teams?
We've got the bench, and we can be just as explosive.
I know this is gonna sound silly, but it's almost like Gillispie saw how his team was running it's ass off, and seeing an opportunity to show the world what we're made of, he let them keep going. When we had to play D, we did, and we did it with ragtag rotations of people who kept coming in and out.
I can't wait to face Texas and Kansas in the Big XII tourney.
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