2.26.2007

Priorities

The Washington Post had some lame feature story on teenagers being so dependent on multitasking.

It's homework time and 17-year-old Megan Casady of Silver Spring is ready to study.

She heads down to the basement, turns on MTV and boots up her computer. Over the next half hour, Megan will send about a dozen instant messages discussing the potential for a midweek snow day. She'll take at least one cellphone call, fire off a couple of text messages, scan Weather.com, volunteer to help with a campus cleanup day at James Hubert Blake High School where she is a senior, post some comments on a friend's Facebook page and check out the new pom squad pictures another friend has posted on hers.

In between, she'll define "descent with modification" and explain how "the tree analogy represents the evolutionary relationship of creatures" on a worksheet for her AP biology class.

Call it multitasking homework, Generation 'Net style.

Wow, that's quite impressive. I'm certainly incapable of doing all that once. It's even more impressive when you realize that the author was omitting what we all know every 17-year-old girl is doing on the weekends: organizing rainbow parties, bracelet parties, and other types of oral sex rings. Accumulating bracelets while studying for that big midterm shows just how capable "Generation 'Net" (ugh) really is. Kudos to them.
Posted by Rusty at 6:34 PM

13 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2007

    Bleh, too much time on the internets. I thought that said p*o*r*n squad, not pom. They really look the same in the right font (or frame of mind...)

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  2. miss beeFebruary 26, 2007

    W.W.LSS.D?

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  3. JTWFebruary 26, 2007

    she aint check out da furry forums? what a lame-o!

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2007

    Hey Rusty, why is there a guy grabbing your ass in the picture you e-mailed to me earlier this morning?

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2007

    Oh man. L.S.S. totally got scooped!

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  6. RustyFebruary 27, 2007

    Um, Tommy, I have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't e-mailed a picture in months.

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  7. HRH King Friday XIII, Ret.February 27, 2007

    You know what, I remember in High School kids having something similar to the bracelet thing. Remember "fuck tabs?" Girls and sometimes guys would carry around small collection of soda can tabs that they claimed came from a partner as some sort of sexual barter system. Cashing in a tab meant free sexual favors. Same thing with peeled beer labels from beer bottles. And you know what... it was almost always bullshit.

    Call me crazy, but maybe 99% of these kids claiming to be involved in sexual taboo are... um... like, totally faking it brAH.

    To the shock of parents, LSS, and Oprah, kids are willing to say extreme things without actually doing them just to appear cool to their peers. It's ALWAYS been that way. And I'm sure in the 1950's every parent who learned that their daughter was doing the jitter bug at the high school prom was convinced they were the town slut.

    In reality the only people engaging in unadulterated sex are the closeted gay frat boys during rush week. Where are they now?

    Late Night Shots.

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  8. miss beeFebruary 27, 2007

    touche, Friday.

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2007

    Call it multitasking!? I call it being lazy. Where is that kid's parents? And, don't give me that latchkey kid bullshit. In my day, it was me and a textbook at the dining room table. When I finished EVERYTHING to my parents approval, I got to watch some TV. And that's when I wasn't being screamed at by my father for not understanding Algebra. And look at me now! Am I pretty enough for you now Daddy!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2007

    I always used those rubber "awareness" bracelets (yellow for "livestrong," red for i-don't-know-what) as sexual identifiers. The amount of bracelets one is wearing is inverse to the amount of ass one gets.

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  11. RinaMarch 01, 2007

    you know what's funny? i had imagined that as people get older, they realize that the more things change the more they stay the same. i guess people actually don't. and thus, adults are constantly amazed, awed, and disturbed by the evolving world.

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  12. AnonymousMarch 02, 2007

    This article isn't even talking about multitasking. That's just procrastination.

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  13. AnonymousMarch 08, 2007

    are you really suggesting that every 17 year old girl spends her time organizing rainbow parties and/or bases her life off of oral sex bracelets?

    needless to say you're wrong, and need to get off your high horse once and a while. i admit the article was stupid, but don't insult every 17 year old girl.

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