Plan B

After reading this article, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/weekinreview/16steinberg.html?pagewanted=2&sq=Plan%20B:%20Skip%20college&st=cse&scp=1
my opinion has changed about college a little. From the moment we were able to comprehend words, it has always been pounded into our minds that in order to succeed in this world, you need to go to college and get a degree. As proven by this article, this is very untrue. Of course, a degree is usually a good idea and will usually make one more eligible for a specific job. But there are jobs where degrees are unnecessary. The article gave the example of mail carriers and how some of them have degrees. Instead of getting that degree, they could have the same job with a lot more money in their pockets by not going to college. Depending on what you want to do in life, a college degree is not completely necessary to be successful.

Formspring

Formspring.me is the new "fad" on the internet. It is a place for teenagers and pre-teens to go on and trash-talk anyone they want and say anything anonymously to anyone. It's dangerous. It's entertaining. It's stupid.

I had a formspring about 2 months ago. I thought it was really interesting what people had to say, but for the most part, I really didn't get too many negative comments. It was actually quite boring. I wanted some negative comments because I thought it would be interesting. But before I deleted it on my own, my mom found out that I had one and asked me to delete it. No problem, I thought, because I wanted to delete it anyway.

As stupid as some kids are for writing nasty stuff on others profiles, it is even stupider to continue using the website after hearing and reading certain things about it. The ridicule has caused at least one person to kill themselves and everyone else has to be idiotic to continue using this pointless website. Facebook and myspace's all have uses and advantages. Formspring will keep you entertained for maybe a week and then it truly gets old. There are no advantages to it; you cannot connect with others the way you can on Facebook. If teenagers want to expose themselves to this ridicule, let them. It's their own faults. As much as I don't want anyone to commit suicide or become upset over this, it's good to realize with personal experience how dumb the website is.

Kyleigh's Law

There's not much to say about this law. I think it's quite obvious that almost every teen in New Jersey is against this law, myself included. As much as I disagree and don't want this law to be enforced, I completely understand the reasoning behind it. What the lawmakers forgot to think about was the side-effects; the main one being that it profiles younger children to not only police, but to predators too. At this point, the argument is not whether it is fair or not (which clearly, it is unfair) but it is whether the law is safe enough. And I argue that it is not. Yes, it is 100% discriminatory towards teenagers. It takes away a lot of the freedoms that we have earned for ourselves in our prior 16 years of existance. But the main reason why I am against it is because it is unsafe and it leaves us marked as younger teenagers for the pedophiles that are out there. Along with this, it also truly will not reduce the number of accidents. The teenagers will still be on the road, which means there will be accidents. There really is no way around it. Everyone gets into accidents, not just teenagers. This law should not discriminate against us because it is unfair, unsafe, and simply not thought out well at all.