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paradox

paradox

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I have a teen daughter who is on Facebook. Many of her friends will also friend me since they hang out at the house a lot and feel they know me. Here is what I have learned about our teen population from Facebook.

Many of the kids these days seem to have the bathroom and the car confused with a photo booth.

My bathroom is much cleaner than those of DD's friends.

Apparently clothing manufacturers have ceased making shirts for teen boys.
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What have y'all learned? Please share.
 
I am always telling my daughter if you must take bathroom pictures please clean it first. I hate bathroom pictures! I have learned that if your child feels wronged by you facebook is where you can find out. I put a stop to that quick. I also learned that my daughter is awesome and is making good choices. The advice I have seen her give others makes me proud of her and her moral standing.
 
New words, new spellings of old words. LOL. Huked on fonyx has NOT wurkd for them!
 
I've learned that Facebook is rife with irony...it's a TEXT-based medium to interact socially. In the WRITTEN WORD. And yet, so many people are incomprehensible. I've seen all new ways to misspell words.

Someone posted a picture of a Californian on a rabbit group on FB. One person began lecturing them...because they thought the darker legs were stained.

Except they were writing with all the skill and dexterity of a person who's body has been taken over by earthworms. Here, I've C&P'd a couple of their posts:

"I would keep the feet of her unstanded because that's a big DQ"

When asked what the heck they meant, they 'clarified' with this:

"like if you have s stane on ur rabbit u can get disqollifed"

The former-English-Major within me is screaming in agony right now. Typing like that is scalding my retinas.
 
I love that my daughter has facebook! It's so much fun. We post on each others walls. I have her password.

It's fun because she'll be in her bedroom and I can send her a facebook message "take the dog potty" hehe! Beats yelling!
 
The last time I taught a class was 2003. The Dark Ages. But iMacs were everywhere, and the kids were ecstatic about "spell-check," because now they "didn't have to worry about spelling anymore"! :mrgreen:

This was a private school (but an amazingly large plurality of our students had emotional and/or learning disorders/disabilities), so the class sizes were pretty small. I gave each of my students a paragraph similar to the following one to have the computer "spell-check." My 7th-graders, who had me for both World History and English, were required to rewrite it into Standard Business English (my term for regular English; it avoided having to disparage "street" English with any specific term but let the kids know that there was a REASON school was conducted in the version of English that it was). My other students, up to and including 12th-graders, had me for a variety of subjects: German, Spanish, math. But all of them got the whacked-out paragraph:

>> "Eye don't no how ewe manage too sea sew mini of her books and magazines. She's going to bee very upset at ewe wen she fines aught that you've Ben going threw them.... Eye wood knot wont two bee in you're shoos wen she fines out!" And what dew ewe think the hay did about they're problem withe there pair ants about her books and magazines? Let me no, oh Kay? <<

Crestfallen, the students decided that perhaps spell-check wasn't going to solve all of their composition problems. :lol:
 
DogCatMom":1o3e0i1l said:
>> "Eye don't no how ewe manage too sea sew mini of her books and magazines. She's going to bee very upset at ewe wen she fines aught that you've Ben going threw them.... Eye wood knot wont two bee in you're shoos wen she fines out!" And what dew ewe think the hay did about they're problem withe there pair ants about her books and magazines? Let me no, oh Kay? <<

Crestfallen, the students decided that perhaps spell-check wasn't going to solve all of their composition problems. :lol:
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That's brilliant, right there! :lol:
 
Hilariously, I am a teen on FB.

I am also a published writer.

I am a member of the Grammar Police and I'm pretty sure some people hate my guts sometimes, but do I care? Nope, nope, nope. :lol:

By the way, if you ever see anyone young using really horrible grammar, suggest the tumblr Reasoning with Vampires. Why? A) a tumblr, not a book, so they're more likely to read it than, say Elements of Style, Woe is I, or The First Five Pages. B) It makes fun of Twilight! They'll look cool, because they're also making fun of Twilight! C) It's hilarious. D) It helps point out what the difference between good and bad relationships are while also showing you how to graph sentences and how to make sure you're using semi-colons right.

Or just tell them they sound like the writer of My Immortal and to Google it if they don't get it. -snaps saucily-

On the other hand, at least it's usually not on the level of My Immortal or wolfspeak. Thank everything good and holy. It's mostly just text talk and way too many "selfies" and pictures of Starbucks coffee.
 
How'd I do?

"I don't know how you manage to see so many of her books and magazines. She's going to be very upset at you when she finds out that you've been going through them.... I would not want to be in your shoes when she finds out!". What do you think they did about their problem with their parents about her books and magazines? Let me know, okay?
 
OwnedByTheBuns":2nbdsdvi said:
How'd I do?

"I don't know how you manage to see so many of her books and magazines. She's going to be very upset at you when she finds out that you've been going through them.... I would not want to be in your shoes when she finds out!". What do you think they did about their problem with their parents about her books and magazines? Let me know, okay?
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100%! :D
 
paradox":1n9jp4m6 said:
Many of the kids these days seem to have the bathroom and the car confused with a photo booth.
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That's what we get since their camera phones are permanently attached to them?

paradox":1n9jp4m6 said:
My bathroom is much cleaner than those of DD's friends.
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That's good to hear. :)

paradox":1n9jp4m6 said:
Apparently clothing manufacturers have ceased making shirts for teen boys.
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:lol:

Cspr":1n9jp4m6 said:
suggest the tumblr Reasoning with Vampires. Why? A) a tumblr, not a book,
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Eh? What in the world is a tumblr???
 
We are "Alone Together" ( Which is an excellent book, I recommend it!) :reading2:

On the computer, I can't stand the selfies,duck face, tongue out... :grump:

When people are also passive aggressive over facebook status..... :hang: Don't air your dirty laundry on the internet!
 
MamaSheepdog":1wfwelzp said:
Eh? What in the world is a tumblr???
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It's what the cocktail goes in. :bounce:

I have never caught on to Tumblr. Much like I've never been too thrilled with Pinterest. They've always struck me as Digg for people who can't the words.
 
RJSchaefer":246yb7qk said:
MamaSheepdog wrote:
Eh? What in the world is a tumblr???

It's what the cocktail goes in. :bounce:
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:lol: Next question- where is my cocktail? *Peers hopefully about the room*

Okay- so I googled Tumblr and found out it is a tumble-blogging site, whatever in the world that means.

Howevah... between 2-4% of the content is pornographic in nature, so... er... no.
 
dayna":jo2658u2 said:
I love that my daughter has facebook! It's so much fun. We post on each others walls. I have her password.

It's fun because she'll be in her bedroom and I can send her a facebook message "take the dog potty" hehe! Beats yelling!
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Lesson learned and noted, after the eye swelling went down so I could see, never send the wife a facebook message across the room asking her if she'll get you a beer and hand you the remote while she's up! Geez!
 
Bill":3sa905n9 said:
Lesson learned and noted, after the eye swelling went down so I could see, never send the wife a facebook message across the room asking her if she'll get you a beer and hand you the remote while she's up! Geez!
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AH-HAH!!!

:hmm: So THAT'S where you've been for the last week... :doc:
 

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