Won't You Be My Friendster?

The title of this story is "Won't You Be My Friendster?" this essay is about how different internet networks are good for connecting with different people. They are talking about today's most popular internet connecters; Facebook and Myspace. They are comparing how these two networks can help you connect to others you thought you’d never ever meet. Some of these people might even be people you pass everyday, and not talk to at all. Facebook and Myspace can compare a group of people simply by just by matching the same interest in music. By being matched that way you meet a lot of new acquaintances‘. The essay also mentions that you can even listen to music of a band who’s album is soon to be released, and find out things that have just hit the web that only people on those networks heard about first. This essay is an argumentative essay because there are many people out there who think the social web life is pointless and a waste of time. These are the people who would want to keep there information about them to their selves. They do not want to share it with anyone they do not know. The essay explains how it can help a person connect and experience new things. The author explains how he thought he had no use for facebook, or myspace. His friends were started on it first, and now they are hooked, Wurster says it’s a new cultural sweep that has taken over. He feels it is something that is hard to do, some people think that it will be uncomfortable to use and go through. But Wurster feels it can help a person be more outgoing and be more comfortable with themselves and people. He feels that it spreads knowledge and different culture backgrounds for everyone to learn about and embrace.

"Needs"...# 4 Connections

Do children need two parents to become well- adjusted adults? Why or why not?

I think children do not need two parents to become well- adjusted adults. I feel that a child can grow up and function correctly with one parent just fine. Just because someone has a mom and no dad, or vice versa doesn’t make them any different from anybody else in society. What takes two people to do, sometimes just one person can handle it on their own. There’s an old saying “Two great minds think alike”, when in real life it should say “One great mind thinks alone.” There are plenty of single parents out in the world who are raising their child or children all by themselves, it is not impossible to do. Even though it is good to have both parents in a child’s life while growing up, it sometimes just doesn’t happen. One parent can easily give a child all the love and care they need if they put their all into it, which consists of blood, sweat, and tears. There are many children who were raised by just one parent, for example Barack Obama. His parents divorced when he was only two, he was raised by his mother. After that his father was never that much there with him, so his mother was a single parent. Even though he didn’t have both of his parents in his life, he grew up and went on to graduate from Harvard law school, and is now our 44th president of the United states. You can not tell me that’s not well-adjusted enough for a person only being bought up with one parent? A two parent home doesn’t make a child a better person, it’s the support and love the child gets from someone, whether it be just be from a mother or just a father.

The Myth of Doomed Kids

Summary

In “ The Myth of Doomed Kids”, the author Depaulo is talking about children raised in different homes. His main topic is children who are raised in two parent homes, and children who are not raised in two family homes. Depaulo explains that children who are not raised with two Parents tend to be more trouble. Whether it be with delinquency, failure or his most talked about topic, substance abuse. The percent of drug and substance abuse in single parent homes, the author says are very high. Children without two parents seem to be labeled as “non normal” or “illegitimate”, because they only have one parent there for them. The percent of children who does not have both parents living with them is 5.7, and children who do have both parents living with them is 4.7. Depaulo asks over and over again, why is there such a small difference between the two? Depaulo sees the two groups to be no different, but when you stop and think about it they are all the same. That children who live in two family homes tend to not just live with two parents, but other relatives that are there to help them out, like an grandparent or aunt or uncle. Even sometimes the two parents are never both home at the same time, even though a child has two parents some don’t get two people who love them and apprentice them at the same time. So aren’t they just like single parent children? Depaulo explains that no matter how many parents are in a home with a child, its they are loved and treated that helps them, and no matter what sometimes parents can still end up with lots of chaos from their children.

Response

I agree with the author in so many ways. I think just because a child has or is living with one parent is the same as any child living with two. Before my parents got married I was a child in a single family home, just me and my mom. Even though it was just her raisin me, I still feel I had all the love and support I needed. I feel that just because a child doesn’t have two parents doesn’t make them an outcast or have failure. Children who have two parents and children who don’t have the same opportunities, and its just up to them to pursue them to the best they can, or just become another statistic. I just wish that society and everyone in it just stop wasting their time and blaming the reason for children becoming bad on their family background. Sometimes it has nothing to do at all with the child’s family, sometimes it maybe just a personal choice to rebel and do something society would never approve of. When I was done reading this essay I felt a lot of anger, because I felt they were talking about me and where I came from, when in real life they know nothing about me or my life. I’m just so tired of single raised children all being into a bad seed category. It’s time for everyone to open up their eyes and see a new view and new change.