“Hey. Have you gotten 2048 yet?” “No. I have not. I am so addicted though. Today while on the bus, I almost missed my stop because I was playing. But before I almost missed the stop, the person sitting next to me noticed what I was playing and started giving me tips!” This is the […]
Author: Moette Nehama Schwartz
YouTube: Where Strangers Interact Through Social Media
I just watched this great video on YouTube. I was laughing and laughing about a hyperactive dog who was running around and chasing his tail. This of course led me to about 100 other videos about animals doing crazy things. It is like YouTube knows me. I could have spent hours watching all of those […]
Which Disney Character Are You?: A Discussion About Buzzfeed
At 11 p.m. last night, I realized that I had not started any of my homework. I had been on my computer for hours, so I must have accomplished something, right? I read the news in a digestible format, laughed along and sympathized with “16 Things Only People With Unique Names Would Understand” (Moette Nehama […]
Smile!
Everyday I see college students taking pictures of themselves: in class, in the cafeteria, and in the library. Sometimes they smile, other times they pout, make kissy faces, or stick out their tongues like Miley Cyrus. What are these students doing? They are taking selfies, or pictures of themselves that they also photograph. This is […]
iPad Mania!
Somewhere a college student has just defeated a level of Candy Crush Saga. This student is gaming, using social media, navigating web pages, listening to music, watching movies, reading books, and taking pictures, all from one device—not their iPhone or any other smart phone, but their iPad. Like a large touchscreen computer that can be […]
The Texting Generation
A few days ago, I nearly rammed into a tree because I was texting while walking, leaving me extremely embarrassed. My entire face turned red, and I looked up, expecting everyone around me to be laughing hysterically. But life went on as though nothing hilarious had just happened. Everyone else was too busy texting as […]
The Id, Ego, Super-Ego, and the Online-Alter-Ego
A quiet girl sits next to me in one of my classes. She does not raise her hand often, but when she does, she always says something intelligent. We started talking one day when the professor was a minute late, and after a few weeks of whispered conversations in class, she sent me a friend […]
My Virtual Dog Ate My Homework
Last week, I was writing a research paper. I wanted to quote a speech and the first and fastest way I knew how to find the exact line I was looking for was from a video on YouTube. Sure enough, I found multiple copies of the speech uploaded. I listened to the part I needed, […]
A Song With Meaning
As I walk to the subway while listening to my iPod on shuffle mode, the first few notes of a song begin to play, the first verse starts, and I all I can think of is: “What song is this?” I am listening to my own iPod. I should know all the songs in my […]
Facebook and Twitter: Virtual Therapists
Moette Nehama Schwartz shared a status: After stuffing myself silly on Thanksgiving, I signed on to Facebook to chat with friends who were home from college. While quickly skimming my newsfeed, I could categorize all status updates into two topics: those about Thanksgiving, and those about the upcoming Black Friday shopping day extravaganza. Many of the […]
