Internet

In Don Tapscott’s book, Grown up Digital, some of the major criticisms of the “Net Generation” are presented. Of the ten criticisms listed by Tapscott, there was one in particular that grabbed my attention. The criticism stated that the Net Generation has lacked social skills and there is no incentive to live an active and healthy lifestyle. Instead of meeting and talking to others in person, they communicate through the internet. Instead of going outside for some physical activity, they sit in front of a television playing video games. According to this criticism, the Net Generation, our generation, has become fat, lazy, and socially awkward.

I cannot agree with this criticism because I believe that it is taking too much liberty in generalizing the entire Net Generation into one category. Of course, there are those people who sit in their basement playing video games for days on end and never see the light of day. Conversely, there are those people that exercise daily and are not completely absorbed in their internet and video games. For the criticism to make that much of a sweeping judgment is absurd.

For example, in a fairly recent study conducted by Hope M. Cummings, M.A., of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Elizabeth A. Vandewater, Ph.D., of the University of Texas at Austin, they found that only 36% of their population of kids aged 10-19 played video games. The average time spent playing video games during the weekdays was 44 minutes and on the weekends it was only one hour and 37 minutes. This is enough evidence to refute the idea that our entire generation is full of fat, lazy slobs.

Short Shorts... The Comeback Story

As it has been said many times before, history has a tendency to repeat itself. Whether the repeated behavior is positive or negative, the majority of people have no choice but to accept the travel back in time.

However, we don’t always have to be happy about it and sometimes the absurdity of select behaviors must be pointed out and harshly ridiculed. Therefore, I would like to ask the general male population of Dallas……

WHAT’S WITH THE SHORT SHORTS????

The short shorts fad has blown through America already, so why try to resurrect a dead trend? This fashion disaster was in its prime during the 60s and 70s. The short shorts were made famous by many basketball players, who thought the length of the shorts gave them more movement and better aerodynamics. By the 1990s, the short shorts jumped from the hairy men to the sleek, slender, and sexy legs of the American ladies, where they belong.

Everywhere I look, I see young men wearing the shorts that only reach the mid-thigh, which is way too much skin for one man to show. Seriously, do everybody a favor and buy shorts that fit.