Mike Windu Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Pft. I loved high school. I'm gonna miss my high school friends a lot. My experience has been a mite different from most here I expect.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Jeez, what a sour puss. Then you must think its cool to pick on someone being of a different nationailty, religion and of too poor to afford all the stuff the other kids had ?? Would you like me to list the thing I got called or were sometimes subjected to....?? I unfortunately went to a school that only had a 10% proportion of non Anglo kids. It was great for academics, but not nice to be in overall. I learnt to live with it and focused on my grades and sporting stuff I was involved with - those things got me through -- and got me to where I am today My parents came here as refugees. Even though I was born in Oz, I was legally deemed a refugee for a number of years until my parents became fully naturalised citizens. Of course I got teased for that too by the wonderfully tolerant WASP kids at my school. c**** I am proud of being an Australian/Turkish, Islamic and never forget the hardships my parents endured through the Cypriot civil war - to get here as refugees and make a life for themselves with very little english and very little skills(They were manual labourers for over 2 decades) We've all come a long way since then, from hard work and study and are very proud of our accomplishments. Anyone that has a problem with that, well.... I wont say it because Im too polite Im sure thats not what you meant with your comments Prime, but please be aware that not all kids had a great time in high school, for whatever reason... nuff said mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I've signed up on a few sites in Latin America (Primary school) and got contacted by several people. That was a great time. As for high school, I didn't signed up on any site...I don't have good memories of those five years...I am Canadian but I grew up mostly in South America (dad was a diplomat who lived in Latin America for about 30-40 yrs). Being a stranger to your own country, while you wear the name, have the look, and speak the language "without an accent" (although you think in another language) but don't know the culture can lead to strange results...I found it more difficult than being a "real" stranger in another country as people know you are not from there...in your own country you are considered as a "weirdo" and not as an immigrant or Canadian: to Canadian born people you are a stranger and to immigrants you are not one of them either. CEGEP and University (College I guess) was ok though I guess I got enough time to adapt and be considered as a "non stranger to my own country" and I made good friends there although most of them but not all have foreign origins... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Woah Astro.. settle down. Anyway. *continues the facebook luvvin* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Woah Astro.... *continues the face luvvin* ewww...pervert mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I can't help it if my face is infinitely more attractive to other mortals. *stares at reflection* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I can't help it if my face is infinitely more attractive to other mortals. *stares at reflection* you know thats not what I meant.... nevermind btw, as a time machine...facebook FAILS. *This* is a time machine dammit (and yes yes, the box for Dr Who fans comes a close second) mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace MacLeod Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Instead of facebook or something online, I have a bar like that. Within days of coming back to Canada, one of the local watering holes quickly became a home away from home. The first week, I met an old friend I grew up with and hadn't seen in about ten years or hung around with in about twenty. Then through him, a bunch of the old crowd going back to...man, kindergarden. Since then, I ran into an old boss, his friend who runs a whitewater rafting company that I went on once, an old girlfriend from about 1994, and...some other people I can't remember right now. Oh, and the bar's owned by a guy I went to high school with. It's hilarious; he's bald and fat now, a far cry from the jock who was a year older than me and good buddies with some homeboys who lived about three doors down from my childhood home. Then you must think its cool to pick on someone being of a different nationailty, religion and of too poor to afford all the stuff the other kids had ??Kids always pick on other kids for just about everything. In case you're wondering, they turn on each other more than the outsiders in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Currently watching this. It's a presentation on Facebook that should prove interesting. I'm currently on as a certain Øyvind Andersen, a pseudonym which has already prompted one person to go 'OMG is that you' and add me as a friend, which caused me to immediately go 'er, no' and reject his friend offer. But no, I'm not going to use my real name. I still do not feel comfortable about this. Call me archaic - I am - but I really do not like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Wow, that's kinda dated. Since 2006 Facebook has opened up to high schoolers as well, and lately Facebook has been getting a ton of sponsored things added to it. Small ads here and there in the form of programs that you can add to your profile. That being said, there is some truth in what that video says. I'd like to examine one of the statements that seems to irk the author of that video so much. "65 friends in 16 weeks. That's not something I do and something many people I know do." Yeah you do. The kids you talk with in class, the people you see and talk to but you never hang out with. Should it be deemed "acquaintances"? Probably. But that's not very appealing. All I see is a way to check up on said people every once in a while. I know that's how I use it. I have 174 friends on my high school network. Some of these people I don't talk to anymore now that we're out of school, so it gives me a way to keep in touch. There's nothing socially significant about that. "Freshman Orientation kids have friended each other, all to feel as if they were already a part of the campus, the network" I'm currently a part of the Rhodes network (where I'm going to college in the fall). The Student Government President started a facebook group for the Class of 2011 and through such I've gotten 31 Rhodes friends. Again, speaking friends in the loosest sense of the term. Will I like all these people once I finally meet them? No. You can't ask that of anyone. Hell, some of my old friends I don't like now. Regardless, all these Rhodes kids haven't even been to an orientation. They don't start till the end of June. It's just a way to connect. "know the parties their friends are going to, and so they never have to worry about when they're alone because of this social networking" When you're alone, you're alone. No party is going to solve that problem. The author acts as if the process of going to a party establishes a deep bond between the party goers. It doesn't. It's up to the person attending said party to socialize and find his clique. So all in all, paranoia of social networking is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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