Thinking conjures up a whole load of emotions that were never previously thought about. Today was raining and overall gloomy, so I spent most of the day by myself in my room. This gave me time to think and reflect upon discussions that I have been having in most of my classes. The same ideas have been overlapping and I have had similar conversations.

However, today in my Writing Arts class was a conversation that put a lot of thought into me. I haven’t thought about the exact areas we covered, but what the areas mean. For a social networking site like Facebook or Myspace, why do we do what we do? Why is it that we put so much of ourselves in the open? There is an incredible difference between our online lives and our real lives. Facebook “stalking” takes up a large part of people’s lives and we read everything–status changes, new comments, notes, wall posts, and look at pictures that have been tagged. Why? What is our obsession with other people’s information?

What if people took the same amount of time that they used on Facebook and went to CNN or the New York Times and read the news.

Why has the idea of news changed? Suddenly, news feeds are more important than the actual news. Who slapped who with Superpoke or who is now in a relationship? What made me go to my brother’s Facebook homepage when I saw his status said something odd? Why do people care so much about Facebook, but don’t take the time to learn about the real world around them?