I'm fairly safe to say that the world is now built around the internet. Nothing is left unturned and every single day a new craze begins. My childhood consisted of scoobydoo's, pokemon cars and god forbid an hour on my gameboy a night!
A prime example of times ch-ch-ch-changinnnng (thanks bowie!) includes the madness that I encountered during one of my visits to a restaurant the other day. Can I clarify now that I am not a weird technophobe! I own just about every gameboy and apple product known to man and I just love my time alone locked away from the sun! HOWEVER, i witnessed a family of four sat around a table, all of which practically connected to their mobile devices/tablets. The mother and father looked like drones, tapping idly away, she'd most likely looking at other men on tindr, whilst the man is watching the sky sport updates like a hawk obsessed!
What struck me was the children, they must have only been around 5/6, and at what should be a magical happy brilliant time of their life, making memories with their family, instead they were glued to the screen of a tablet watching spongebob.
It makes me sad that our lives are slowly divulging into media madness! Which leads me on to two topics which have RAISED HAVOC amongst the internet community.
Facebook is currently covered in video's, since Vine encouraged more people to video themselves, suddenly everyone is no longer camera shy! However, this has turned out to be a blessing and curse. Our maytes (sorry i am really shocking at accents;)) down under have started a craze of getting a pint glass, filling it with unimaginably stupid things and following the traditional teenage demand of 'downing it'.
I have watched and also partaken in this activity... and I have seen some horrors! The saddest of it all is that actually several people have died. However, this then opened a minefield of parental madness! They have swarmed our deeply hidden Facebook walls and are now going hellbent on stopping NEKNOMINATIONS from happening. Although justified, I have some issues.
After reading the articles... I have a few issues.
1) These people drank stupid amount of alcohol, intact some mixed poisonous substances in with their drinks.
2) They all went out afterwards, undoubtedly drinking much much more.
3) There are no rules to NekNominate, In fact, nothing states that you have to drink any alcohol at all!
I know, with all this being said, I am sorry to hear about the death of these individuals but it all comes down the case of that they had a choice. I've had friends drink AWFUL amounts of alcohol, I have also had friends that have drank merely a pint of water! The decision of what to drink is the individuals fault and therefore their responsibility! Which is why it has angered me that various people have taken to the web and began brandishing all teenagers idiots when I am fairly sure that most adults have drank a lot more and a lot worse on a night out as kids themselves.
I'm probably going to make a youtube video about this for the record!
That leads me on to the final part of internet madness this week!
Anyone know of this little guy?
If you don't then you have probably been living under a rock!
This game has released bedlam within app markets and could actually be known as one of the most addictive games of all time...
sorry i got distracted...
Despite its rubbish graphics and frankly most mundane game plot ever, Flappy Bird caused a storm when it went viral and nearly everyone was playing this game! However, it has been removed by its maker due to the trouble it also caused!
My favourite part about this game is that since being removed, an iPhone still containing it makes a gold mine, on Ebay, an iPhone with the game still installed sold for £50,000 today! oh you humans! you make me so proud!
Until Next time, Stay safe, avoid rubbish games and for god sakes put your phone down once in a while ;)
G
