BlackBerry

Something I am always amazed by in our culture is the obsession with cell phones and how actual interaction between people is becoming less and less. I know that I feel naked without my blackberry in hand and use it for way more than calling people. I can text, BBM (blackberry messenger), email, play games...basically my life is in my phone and I'm not the only one. I also know that I spend the majority of my time texting instead of actually talking to people on the phone. While I love texting, I think that the intense decrease in actual phone conversations is making it more difficult for people to be social and have actual conversations. It obviously makes peoples phone etiquette worse but I think it also effects peoples ability to have a conversation face to face. They are so used to being able to think about their response and not having to worry about their facial expressions that when they talk to someone face to face they are not as able. Not only does this effect them socially but professionally, making something like a job interview or a conference much more difficult. Unfortunately, my eight year old sister has her own cell phone and can practically do everything on it that I can so it is only going to continue to get worse.

Highlighters

As I looked around one of my classes last week, I noticed how intense people can get in their notes with highlighters. Each arrow, dash, or bold word gets outlined or swiped with hot pink or yellow-even rainbow. Each is it's own work of art and says something about their personality. Certain people keep their lines exact and have keys in their mind of what each bright color means where as others practically turn the entire page hot pink. I think it shows a lot about how controlled a person is. I know that I consider myself a perfectionist and like to keep all of the lines perfect and to one or two colors but my friend who sits next to me in class uses the full spectrum of colors outlining different words, even drawing pictures. While it does show something about their personality, I don't believe it measures a level of creativity. To most it would appear that she is more creative because of how bright and detailed her notes are but I think that having a certain way of doing something is all it take's to be creative. By deciding to like using hot pink more than yellow, you are making a creative decision and therefore being creative.