Dear Syfy,
Please don’t eff up The Eyes of the Dragon, because I’m going to watch it whether you do or not, and I want to like it.
kthnxbye,
Saraaaaaaah
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Hollow Sounds - Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room
I wanna shake you down
And drag you like a cigarette
No, I ain’t smoked in years
But the thought still gets my lips wet
Now, easy does it, was easy as it was to quit
But I think I met my match
How am I ever gonna get you licked
Going, going, gone away
From the only place I ever want to stay
This road gets lonelier everyday
I already asked you to wait
So how much more of me can you take?
I wanna light you up
Take you deep inside my lungs
Where maybe you could shine your light inside
On all the damage that I’ve done
Maybe one day we might just get me fixed
Or, at least better understand why I’m always getting sick
No don’t go away
You’re the only face I ever want to see
I hope one day soon you can depend on me
For more than just my ups and downs
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Mashable Article - Mom Uses Facebook to Epically Put Her 13 Year Old Daughter In Check
Now I don’t agree with the laptop-shooting Dad, simply because I think he should’ve donated her laptop to a more appreciative kid since that was what the lesson was about, but I’m intrigued by parts of the Mom’s solution (parts because I don’t like the “I can’t keep my mouth shut” part of the message - I would have left this part out, as she has to answer everyone back anyway, and it feels too much like publicly embarrassing her. If they’re her friends on Facebook, they’ll probably understand why she is in trouble), bad photoshop aside -
If you think about it, supervision of childrens’ pages is unarguably logical to an extent - they are children, and the internet is dark and full of terrors. However, they are developing people (just like you, only not so far along), so they deserve a safe space to be themselves and use as they see fit (because you do too). I’m a fan of “Gamify All the Things!” - consider the changes the mother made to her daughter’s profile:
~ uploaded a visual representation of her daughter’s now “inactive” status
~ broadcast to an appropriately wide audience (her daughter’s network) a written summary of her daughter’s new availability setting
It’s like an away message, only one that indicates a minor is temporarily, involuntarily suspended from using the service. Set her profile to “Grounded”.
Think of it as a stewardship. If you establish a social contract between yourselves you really could create an opportunity to use the web as both a way to get to know your kids better and a way to help them become content-cycling (producing and consuming), well-informed citizens of the internet.
To take the idea away from parenting and toward how this may shape development, if this is a “setting”, what are some other possible settings? What kind of account structure would need to be in place, for one account to have the ability to make changes in another? I think, ideally, personal accounts for adults and children are necessary- with the child accounts linked to one or more administrator adult accounts (which could, upon parental release or the child’s 18th birthday, transition into an adult account - essentially just severing the link between the accounts).
Accounts growing with users as they age is something social networks are beginning to deal with, and eventually, will have to have policy in place to address in the long term. Recently I’ve seen headlines regarding legal battles between users attempting to gain control over the Facebook-possessed accounts of dead relatives. I think an interesting solution would be to transition the accounts of deceased users to a wiki-style, deceased-user’s-network-policed setup, with the provision that after a certain amount of time (as in, after an amount of “deadening” of the original user’s network), the profile was finally reviewed and locked for changes.
This mirroring of life’s progression is especially interesting when combined with a life-encompassing profile story; consider the end result of a fleshed-out Facebook timeline, with birth, life events, photos, writings, interests, relationships, conversations…everything, encapsulated. A life in digital summary as best as is possible, especially with the added discourse of friends, relatives, and colleagues. These pages are sentimentally and culturally relevant to our lives and to the evolving chronicle of human history.
So how does the social networking service find out you’re dead? What happens to private posts before and after your account is transitioned? Further questions to consider, and something concerned individuals might want to provide for in their wills.
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This is why we have an internet, and why we can have nice things.
Thank you reddit.
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Can I just take a moment and say that “motherfucker” and it’s various forms = my favorite word(s) to say.
Especially when it comes out “muthafuckaaaaaaaaaaaaas” or “muuhfuckin”Like,
“Apps are on me, I just got paaaaaaaaid muthafuckaaaaas!”
or
“It’s time for some muuhfuckin‘ cheeseburgers!”
Be sure to run and duck when it’s “mother FUCKER,” though usually my go-to angry expletive-filled phrase is “son of a bitch!”Remember children, play with your language!
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omg!
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