Pros and Cons of Technology advances

Wow you gotta love modern day technology. So far I’ve written a term paper, ordered a movie, played bills, made appointments all from the comfort of my couch. This might sound incredibly lazy but I just got off the phone with directv to order a movie and they told me I had to go online to order the movie and I was thinking “wow, not down to get up” and then I look at my tv and there’s an option where I can just text “movie” to a certain number and order my movie from my phone!! I don’t even have to talk… The other day too I was trying to order a subscription for magazines but I kept lagging because you have to go to a 7/11 or cvs.. Get a money order.. Then fill out the order form.. Get a stamp.. And mail it the offices. Which honestly isn’t that hard of a process I just kept lagging it for a couple months. And then I realized.. It’s 2011. There’s probably an easier way to do this and obviously there was. I just entered my credit card info online to the magazines website and it took about 5 minutes. Then I realized theres an even easier way.. I can order via text. Modern day technology and advances really is amazing but it’s definitely making this generation incredibly lazy. The other day I was parallel parking and my grandma told me that on new cars, you can pay extra to have the car parallel park itself! And we’ve all seen the cameras on new cars to see in back of the car. You don’t even need to turn your head. There’s also a nose for when your getting dangerously close to something. All of this is great but if we depend on technology to save us from ourselves, what will we be able to do on our own eventually?

Twilight part 1 ( spoiler alert! )

I’m not a huge twilight fan but I’ve never been so pumped to see a movie. Ive never read the books and I didn’t even see the first movie but with all the advertising and events and promos and just everything everywhere, I had to go see it. And if I didn’t I would’ve felt like I was missing out on something HUGE. The movie was an hour and a half long (pretty short for a movie) and all that had happened was Bella got pregnant, died because of her demon baby and came back to life as a vampire. Which honestly is like 7 chapters in the book. It was a pretty amazing movie I’m not gonna lie but all that I’m left with is the anticipation of the next movie! Now when the next one comes out I’ll be buying my ticket two weeks in advance for the midnight showing.. And I’m not even that big of a fan! I’d think about 75 percent of a movies success is the advertising. Because no one knows what the movie is going to be like until they purchase their ticket and see it themselves. And if the movie is decent or at the least lives up to somewhat of its expectations, you’ll probably be willing to see the next sequel.

Men & Diet Sodas

I was watching TV the other day when a commercial for Dr. Pepper came on. It’s funny because when you see a commercial, they low key hint on to their target audience. Like for axe deodorant, they will hint on the young male crowd by making it obvious that if u get this deodorant/cologne (whatever it is) girls will chase you at clubs and fawn over you.
Or another example… For yoplait yogurt it’s a bunch of women talking about yummy foods and how they still lose weight.. Obviously aimed towards women because we want to eat the foods we want to eat and lose weight.
So anyways about this Dr. Pepper commercial… It was pretty much a guy shooting guns in a car chase in the army in a jungle punching snakes carrying a dr. Pepper 10 calories only drink. And at the end of the commercial the guy goes “dr. Pepper … For MEN only” “not for women”
Like okay.. Be any more upfront about it.
They even made a Facebook page excluding women. If your a girl and you click to join, it goes to a page that reads “sorry ladies, dr. Pepper ten isn’t for women. But we may have something more your speed at drpepper.com”
I guess they went through all this trouble to make a point that diet sodas aren’t just for women watching their calories.
I mean… If that’s all it takes you can get men to eat tofu.. Just call it Super Manly Lumberjack Bob the Builder Tofu

Justin Beiber claims – a scam!

Mariah yeater, 20, has been claiming for the past week that Justin beiber is the father of her 3 year old child. Yeater wants Justin to take a paternity test and pay for child support. Jb denies the story and gave one short statement on this whole issue saying he’s never met someone named Mariah yeater and will continue to focus on what’s most important, his music.
Mariah, 19 at the time and Justin, 16, is now being accused for statutory rape due to the fact that he was a minor. Karmas a b****!
This all seems a little fishy to me on both sides. Why is she making these claims now?! Right before Justin beibers new christmas album was released? Why hadn’t she made these claims sooner… Like maybe when he was born! Justin continues to tweet about the lies and rumors and then mentions either his new album or the fact that he’s focusing on music and thanks them for believing him and sticking with him. Whenever he mentions the lies and rumors regarding mariah yeater he also mentions his music or new album… Weird right?
Makes you think that maybe this was set up.

Ps. Congrats Justin Beiber on #UnderTheMistletoe being the #1 Album on Billboard 200

How to Become Famous

If you’re interested in becoming famous and getting rich then just follow these 3 easy steps!
Step 1: get a YouTube account
Step 2: post interesting videos
Step 3: get a lot of hits!

Easy as that!!! It’s very very easy to get famous these days from YouTube since its so accessible. Justin beiber did it! Everyone knows who Rebecca black is now…. Jennamarbles is this generations comedian. (I tune in every Wednesday for her new videos).
And now in the spotlight… Fred.
Fred is pretty funny. He posts random videos of himself talking in a chipmunk voice (used the voice effects from a Mac) doing really random things. For example: “Fred goes swimming” or “Freds mom goes missing.” His videos are generally 3-5 minutes long and everything takes place in his own home, shot with an ordinary camera. I’ll admit his videos are hilarious. Fred got 50 mil hits on YouTube and got a small role on iCarly, a nickelodeon tv show hit, episode shortly after. Now, Fred has two full length movies on nickelodeon, one recently premiered this week as a halloween special. He’s very funny so good for him but it just amazes me how easy it seems to get into the public eye through social networking.

Domino’s workers Lives ruined because of YouTube

Two dominos workers were actually stupid enough to post a video of themselves messing with the pizza while at work. One girl was filming her friend doing disgusting things like sneezing on cheese sticks and then covering the booger with more cheese. Then he sticks a piece of cheese up his nose and puts it in the food! There is more footage of how he used the sponge to wipe his butt (as if it were toilet paper) and then use it to wash the dishes.
The girl filming says while cracking up, “now it will be served to some unlucky customer!”
The video went viral and now the workers have been fired from their jobs, charged by the food police with distribution of prohibited foods, and also faced with criminal charges. The girl filming who wasn’t seen doing any of the acts was even kicked out of college.
The two claim that it was just a prank and the food was never sold to any customer but the evidence is all there.
They didn’t realized that when you post a video on YouTube… It’s available for the WORLD to see.
The consequences for the video that was posted caused a lot of damage. The health department closed the store that week for sanitization. It also made it very hard for the 125,000 employees in the country that work for dominos, giving them a bad reputation. Dominos has obviously also suffered from this. Whose gonna want to eat there after seeing this????!!! I’m definitely never eating there again… I don’t want to risk it. It also makes me question other fast food restaurants.
People need to realize that what you put on the Internet can cause a lot of damage because it’s the World Wide Web. A lot of people have access to your information and that could be ver dangerous.

Paranormal Activity

I keep seeing commercials for paranormal activity 3 premiering Thursday at mightnight. If you’ve never seen the previous movies, basically a family is terrorized my ghosts and its all on footage. These movies are extremely disturbing and make it very difficult to fall asleep afterwards because more than half of the movie is what happens while you sleep.
Also, the way the movie is shot is sooo realistic it makes you wonder if it is. It’s a regular video camera shot in a regular home with regular people.
After seeing the first movie and not being able to be alone for a couple months, I eventually got over it.
The movie preview for the third sequel shows a movie audience screaming and covering their eyes And then qoutes movie critics saying “the last 15 minutes will mess you up for life” and knowing that I couldn’t sleep for days after the first one, It just makes me want to see it more! Which is fine because I’m the target audience. Someone not in the target audience who saw the same thing would probably say who in their right mind would go and see this if the last 15 minutes will mess you up for life?!! Well… Me