Posts Tagged ‘ facebook ’

Do you ever get the feeling of a daily mini- withdrawal from the internet and our beloved social networking sites during those seven hours at school? I’m sure many have typed facebook.com into the address bar unintentionally at least once. Or they’ve attempted to find a good game to occupy some free time. Yet, the Read More »

Adam Levine | Back in the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln was beginning his presidential campaign. At the time, biased newspapers were extremely common. A reporter from The New York Herald once wrote that Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech was “unmitigated trash, interlarded with coarse and clumsy jokes.” On November 4, 2009, Journalism teacher Mrs. Nancy Read More »

Addiction is a term used in many contexts. It is used to describe obsession, compulsion, or excessive dependence on a sole substance. The common types of addictions we encounter in modern society are drug, alcohol, shopping, and even food addiction. But now, technology has discovered another type of addiction — social networking. There have been Read More »

Well, there it is; the homework is beside you, sitting there, taunting you, and calling your name. You pick up the pencil, but –Facebook calls too; one minute couldn’t hurt right? Welcome to the world of “strategic multi-tasking” Otherwise known as procrastinating. “Homework should be illegal,” said  sophomore Shara Joy Aya. What exactly is procrastinating? Read More »