Monday, September 05, 2005

Status Means Nothing Anymore

It’s so true. Young people don’t respect people that are older then them anymore, everyone is just as good as everybody else in today’s world. However perhaps on of the most blatant disregards for status can be found in our everyday lives, many of you whom are culprits of this diabolical and undermining scheme…the instant messenger status.

Now don’t get me wrong I love IM and how it can be used to talk to people far away and send files and all that jazz but here’s the problem. When you go on MSN now-a-days everybody is away, or so they set their status as that. Rarely is someone busy when their status says so, and how often do people put up the “Out to Lunch” status when they actually are out? I propose that we all start putting our status as dictated by what we are actually doing. If you’re at your computer and don’t want to talk because you’re busy, then put you’re busy. In fact if you don’t want to talk at all do us all a favor and appear offline, which will save all of us time and energy.

For today’s summer story I’ll take you to a magical place called Mount Saint Helens, which is if I am correct the only active volcano on the continent of North America…there might be one or two others but I’ll have to do my homework later. Anyway we drove up into Washington State during our week off in Oregon; the west coast has everything, and saw some pretty cool stuff. It was a cloudy day so we could only see the mountain partially but it was still pretty cool, plus we met some super cool & friendly chipmunks!

3 comments:

matthew said...

Yes, that is true. A lot of times when I sign on there are 10 people 'away' and no one truly on. Perhaps that has something to do with signing on at 3am.

I like the appear offline feature, that way I can wait for someone cool to sign on.

Glad you had a good summer

Xaven said...

I hear ya dude - I wish that there was some indicator of what they were really doing. It'd keep people honest and probably pretty humble. I can see it now:

"Your buddy xBuddyNamex (because everyone is hardcore nowadays) may be unavailble because he or she is taking a constipated numbero duce."

P.S. I like your new look, but your entire blog is somehow linked... to your blog.

Anonymous said...

jb-glad you're back and updating the ol' blog again! i like the new title, especially. anywho...i agreed with your blog very much so, but if history reminds me well, didn't you always have your msn on 'away'? maybe not. maybe i'm just trying to twist your post back upon yourself! oh, the irony! oh, the madness! oh, the stupid comments left by morons like myself! when will it end?

now.