final conclusion for experiment

Well this weekend I had a volleyball tournament so I did not have time to text on my phone nor did I have time to check facebook and comment. I didn't miss it at all. The way that we communicate with each other through modern devices is very impersonal and it bothers me that this is the way that we chose to communicate. Although letters are still a way of communication today, it is deemed inconvenient because of the time it takes to receive and send. I think that it is more personal and definitely more exciting to receive a letter in the mail knowing that it has gone to different places until finally settling down in your mailbox. Through this experiment I have experienced withdrawals from texting and facebooking and I found that they are not as important or necessary in our lives as we hold them to be. These ways of communicating are just substitutes for confrontation and human contact. I prefer human contact because you get to know what a person is thinking or how they are feeling not through a screen, but from their face.

Anticipation and 3 days reflection

My experiment that I chose to follow for a week is no cyber communication; use of phone or computers for communication. Before this experiment I would text my friends and family about topics that weren't important and were not substantial. They were filled with smiley faces and jokes and held no substance or brevity. Deciding to give up cyber communication was a choice I made because people were fine before the technology of texting was released so I should be fine without it. The first day was strange because I had to ignore texts, facebook posts, and instant messages from friends and sometimes familly. It didn't take much restraint to abstain from replying but I did feel bad for not replying to their messages. The next day, Wednesday, wasn't that bad at all. I would occasionally get the flashing light indicating that there was a new message which would in turn give me a feeling of sadness for not replying to their messages but it was miniscule.  On Thursday there were less flashing lights and less beeping sounds and it did not bother me at all. Today on Friday my phone still has those flashing lights and strange sounds but I do not feel obligated to reply or to feel regret for not replying to them. I spend less time looking at my phone for something to do rather than engage in actual human contact. I find it much more relaxing and entertaining to talk to someone rather than read their comments through a 2" screen. My experiment is not over yet and I will have to try to prolong cyber communication through the weekend.

Advice Letter (re-created)

Dear Mike,
          You are very naive in following Brett around thinking that she loves you. She has been with many other men and she has said "I love you" to all of them. Do not cloud your good judgement by idolizing her beauty. She will only hurt you in the end. She claims to love Jake, manipulating him to thinking that she truly does but just can't because of his condition. That is a lame excuse for not loving someone. She also claims to love Cohn. Cohn has been brainwashed to think that she loves him and follows her around like her pet. She is only in a relationship for your money and reputation. Do not let your good standing be soiled by hers. She doesn't seem to be concerned at all by floating around to different partners when she is formally connected with you. I know that you are disturbed by the idea, so act on your feelings and leave her. She will move on quickly and forget about her miniscule loss. Please Mike, look at the reality of the situation and beat her to the punch

homework writing 1

Alex is a very educated person with a family that cares for him yet he does not seem to take advantage of that and instead abandones them in search for his meaning in life. Reading about his family does not make me feel more sympathetic about him but more sympathetic for his family. He was very close to his sister and did not even tell her where he was going or why. His actions seem very out of place but sometimes they feel justified, even though those times are rare. The reason why he left his family was very understandable, trying to find his meaning in life and inner peace, but leaving them without any clue where he was going to be seemed unreasonable and might have given him even more hardships than he needed to endure. His family deserved to know that he was gone just not necessarily why.

Standing 50 feet away looking kind of spooked (not finished)

          She was the best agent we had. How this happened we don't know nor do we understand how we did not see the jet before the impact. She was on an undercover mission trying to find out the underlying causes of the revolts arising in the Middle East and to find their missing dictators. The dictators left their countries seemingly out of thin air. No one knows where they have gone and their military leaders have gone AWOL taking over every aspect of citizens lives from controlling what people can say and where and when they can go. Internet and satellite access has been cut and the Middle East seems to be transforming into another disastrous North Korea. She was smart, intelligent really, and had a special gift of knowing when someone was lying just by their facial features. She had to infiltrate the escape compound of Hosni Mubarak and retreive him alive for questioning. She never listened to our orders and always went her own way of doing things but always ended the mission in success. For some reason she got rid of her tracker, disposed of in the rushing waters of some remote part of a river. We didn't even know she planned on taking a jet to the compound until the pilot informed a rendezvouz point of her location over a tapped radio feed we had for a previous assignment. We tried questioning the pilot who had known of her location but he had seemingly disappeared...