It's amazing to me to see how often email, facebook, instant messaging, myspace, blogs, twitter, cell phones, texting and internet take up much of our daily lives. I walked into the high school the other day to pick up some advertisement fliers from Franklin. On the way down the hall I noticed this display on the wall that an animal science class had done. They were traced animal outlines with their digestive tracks filled in. It was the title that enticed me. Animal Digestive Tracks :). Who puts a smiley face on their projects? I guess now it's no big deal. When I was in high school, which was only eight years ago we would not even think of putting a smiley face, let alone anything else in the title of our homework projects.
We didn't even have cell phones when I was in high school. I was talking to my softball girls about when we rode the bus to games and back. I told them we listened to our CD players because we did not have MP3 players or IPods. We did our homework on the bus and played card games, we did not text our talk to our friends on our cell phones. We called our parents when we got back from a game on the phone in the high school office. They thought I was joking. They could not fathom not being able to use any of that stuff on the bus. They asked me if I was ever bored. I told them no, we always had something to do whether it be listening to music, playing games or talking to friends in the next seat over or catching up on our homework. That's one thing I never saw on the bus last season, people doing their homework.
Another thing that has changed since then is "oh just text or facebook me." It's not just call me or send me a letter. For what I know now about technology, it would be really weird to be sent back in time to when I was in high school and to tell someone to facebook, twitter or text me. They probably would ask what's facebook or what's twitter or what's text?
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