Also, as part of our assignment I viewed some of the other things on Moodle.

The first one I read was about how a guy cured his holiday lonliness by talking to and basically starting a relationship with a woman he met on Facebook. I think while it is a little creepy that this relationship started on Facebook, I also think it is sweet that this guy found happiness and companionship.

In the second article that I read, I thought it started off very funny actually. The way the author was telling us to put away all distractions and named all of them was exactly what I was thinking about when he mentioned distractions at first. I think he is right in many of his assumptions and in many of the things he says. Even at the end, when the author mentions that there really isn't a way to just stop the advance of technology anymore, I think he hits the proverbial nail on the head because we really can't go back to a time where computers, blackberrys, phones etc. were not necessary. It almost seems now-a-days that we need these things in order to function in daily life.

When it comes to the third and final article I read, "Cellphones, Texts, and Lovers," I was first appalled at the sex diaries that the Times had made available for people to write. I don't really like that as an idea despite how entertaining it is. I also agree whole heartedly with the writer that just because we have different ways of courting and hooking up with people now, it doesn't mean we are any less of a generation than the generations before us who used more face to face contact and that kind of thing. I feel that we have adapted to the times and new technologies as best we can and are finding new ways to meet and get to know others. Personally I don't really see anything wrong with that.