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...planning process, the Committee has limited its usage of paper, mobilizing e-mail and Facebook. The Committee even plans to follow up with their classmates in the hopes that they will change their habits based on what they learned at the reunion to offset the reunion’s usage of carbon dioxide by next year...
...other hand, the information revolution has provided concrete (if controversial) benefits outside the classroom. With the recent burst of social networking sites comes the criticism that we have sacrificed depth for breadth in our relationships. A fellow senior reflected on the discrepancy between Facebook and his real social life: “There is no way that I have 900 actual friends.” But this provides an overly restrictive framework in which to consider the new ways in which we interact online. We can distinguish between the “core” elements of friendship?...
...unrelenting barrage of Twitter updates threatens excessive intrusion for both readers and writers, challenging our most basic understanding of the concept of “privacy.” But for the most part, our online interactions are a natural response to a new and generational exhibitionism; after all, Facebook albums and Tweets are posted precisely because others will see them. In this sense, coming of age in the early bouts of an information revolution has laid the foundations for a radically different conception of community, one enriched by public identities that are created expressly to be shared with those...
...contribute to the professor’s knowledge or to its own. As a professor, I have learned always to turn my lectures into seminars, so that my students do not watch the clock and doodle as I did in college, or, in the contemporary alternative, e-mail and Facebook their friends about lunch...
...laid down on their candy ass. 6. Become a dragon. 7. Manage a baseball team without letting anyone else know. 8. Host something in your room called a “crotch party.” Don’t tell anyone what it is. Just send out a Facebook invitation to everyone you know, including that girl from freshman year in Lionel who you never talked to after puking while hooking up. 9. Live every week like it’s shark week for one week. 10. Commit a crime, and then watch cops, and then watch yourself...