Opinion
What is your status update today?
The Clarion | Oct. 2, 2009
by Thomas Lide
Staff Writer
Status updates on the social network
ing site Facebook are more prevalent than
ever, and some students at Brevard College
refuse to openly discuss their reasons for
updates.
They are all over everyone’s Facebook
page. As soon as a person logs on, there is
a hst of people via friends that have up
dated their status whether it’s about going
to class or how much they love roast beef
sandwiches.
There are those that take status updates
seriously and put up personal information
such as a woman featured on the site salon,
com in an article called The Facebook Di
vorce, who continued to update those on
her friends hst about her daily struggles of
deahng with a divorce.
Then there are those that take the status
update obligation as a complete joke by
putting fuimy phrases or song lyrics up just
to entertain others. Either way, that little
box on your homepage that reads “What’s
on your mind?” is used hourly by some
Facebookers all around the world.
After numerous attempts to find people
on campus that would openly talk about
why they use the status update that they
do, only 2 people came clean and openly
conversed about their experience with
facebook.
Junior Mavis Figuroa said “I check Fa
cebook 2 or 3 times a day, especially when
I’m bored in class.” When asked about her
status updates, she said “I usually put up a
song or a phrase, but I think it’s stupid to
keep everyone updated on my emotions.
It’s just a cry for attention.”
Senior Charles Jordan said “I check my
facebook about 3 times a week just to keep
in touch with people that I don’t see often. ”
When asked about his status updates, he
said “I don’t put up a status update, because
I know that no one really cares what others
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Temple of Doom, Monty
Python’s Holy Grail, and
Miami Vice.
Refrigerators were not
in a dorm room unless you
rented one for the year for
$100 and the only phones
available were the pay
phones at the end of each
dorm hall. No one owned
a cell phone.
All campus dorm rooms had
write-on tablets attached to their doors so
people could write messages that they had
stopped by or that someone had called for
you on the pay phone. Portable cassette
players with headphones were the “in”
thing as well as boom boxes blaring tunes
from Phil Collins, Led Zeppelin, Michael
Jackson, Prince, and more from dorm
windows.
Everyone owned a rubies cube, a hacky-
sack, and at least 5 pairs of shades because
of a song called “I Gotta Wear Shades.”
Dorm walls were covered in posters and
anything else that we could get to stick to
the cinder block walls.
The beds were raised to lofts. People
would write on the beams of the lofts and
attach a beer label or two as well. If there
were no lofts in the room, the
beer labels were plastered
to the walls. Flicking
beer caps was an art form
and knowing how to play
quarters, essential.
Trivial Pursuit was the
hottest game. Competi
tions were heated and
furious in the lobbies of
the dorms. The only game
console system around was
Atari. Ultimate Frisbee was played almost
daily in the quad. Soccer seemed to be
played by everyone and everywhere on
campus. And when it snowed, a campus-
wide snowball fight ensued. Everybody was
fair game, even the Deans and professors
who lived on campus at the time.
We were creative in keeping almost
everything on the “down-low” and looked
out for each other immensely. We took turns
being the designated driver and held onto
everyone’s keys until everyone was re
turned safely to their dorm rooms. We were
a very tight knit family then and still are to
this day. Our memories may be fading but
they are forever captured in our cherished
yearbooks and photographs that never fail
to bring a smile upon our lips.
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