Whose in your network?

"..."You are who your network is." You are who you know."

Unfortuantely, I believe this is all to true. People judge others on the people they surround themselves with. It's just like in high school, if you hangout with the gothic kids- people assume that you to are a gothic kid. Whatever they stand for, automatically becomes what you stand for, whether its true or not. This isn't all necessarily bad, I mean you choose your friends therefore you choose the imagine you want to protray to the world. Also, I think that these online social networks have become way to public. People should not be able to see your every move or everything you send. There comes to a point where you have to have some kind of privacy for nothing other than your own safety, much less sanity. In other words, choose your friends or network carefully because you will be judged because of your decisions and be careful with how much information you leave on the net, not everything is public right.

checking out

Theres nothing worse than being starving and going to the grocery store. First of all, it takes forever to find what you need because they're always moving items to new aisles. Then, when you finally are ready to go, you get in line. Thinking that the self-checkout is the way to go, you get in line behind an older woman. After ten minutes you see she's only checked out 5 items out of her 3,545 items (well over the limit). But by now all the regular lines are packed and theres a line of 5 people behind you. The Speedy self-checkout is virtually nonexsistant. At least if the person infront of you is over 45.

Ana Mia

"Anorexia has become a religion in which all who follow shall become thin and achieve perfection, while browsing the content of a ‘pro-ana’ site Pro Ana Mia we can find the ‘ana creed’ which further breaks down the self esteem of these mouldable girls." Zilla Gordon the author of this blog is talking about the very serious health issue of Pro Ana Mia websites and the lifestyle they are continuing to promote. Gordon is addressing an audience of people who may know individuals with these disorders but don't quite understand them and of course Ana Mia users. She talks about how it feels not to eat like shes been in those shoes before, and wants to help stop the trend before people start dying. This article really struck me because this is where I am. I have, at different low points in my life been both Anorexic and Bulemic. It is something I will always struggle with and with the media so surrounded on issues of weight it hard to get away from those thoughts of "if I could just lose 10 pounds I'd be happier". I'm glad to see there are people out there fighting these sites, there is no doubt in my mind they will succeed.