Archive for October, 2012
Twerk Team does Damage
I recently had a conversation with a co-worker and was disappointed about what I heard. Her 16-year-old daughter and friend posted a video to YouTube of them dancing. Not just any kind of dance but ‘twerking’. I automatically knew what influence them to do this, The Twerk Team. The Twerk Team is a group of three girls who post videos of themselves dancing to the latest hip hop hits but you can never see their face because their rear-end are the stars of the show! These girls were an instant hit and now star in main stream music videos, award shows, concerts and many other events. I can admit to liking them but only for entertainment. What I disagree about is their influence on younger generations. Twerking is basically stripping without taking your clothes off but women do it half naked anyway so that doesn’t really matter. Teenage boy’s love them so teen girls want to be them! There are a bunch of Twerk Team parody videos on the internet and most of the girls aren’t even old enough to vote! The biggest disappointment was when my co-worker confronted her daughter; she didn’t feel like anything was wrong with what she had done! “Everybody is doing it” she said! We need to be more conscious about what we put into the minds of children because they are easily influenced. We need to spend more time educating them so that they can see videos like these as pure entertainment. If we don’t, they will idolize these women and we won’t have a generation of doctors and lawyers and ceo’s, but we’ll have a generation of strippers and video girls willing to sell themselves for money and fame. In this day and age, you can get famous for anything and this generation is headed in the wrong direction! 
12 comments October 23, 2012
Twitter Death
Devonice Gordon
Twitter Deaths
10/06/2012
Over the course of twitter existence, many celebrities have passed away. Not in the real world but the Twitter world. Everyone from Justin Beiber to Adam Sandler all passed away according to Twitter. These were all a string of hoaxes tweeted by random tweeters who had too much time on their hands. My question is what makes people believe these hoaxes? Twitter deaths spread like wild fire and before you know it, everybody thinks that a celebrity is dead. When a celebrity really does pass away, do people shrug it off as a twitter death? As a college student, this subject has been brought up by my friends on occasion and each of us had our own opinion about it. We know better to confirm a death our self before we start to believe others. I know through my specific subject of education to check sources before I start to believe if anything is true. But what about the many people who believe them. For example, my sister called me and told me that Chris Brown got into a car accident and died. I asked her how she knew and she said it was on the news and that her friend saw it. I got off the phone and did my own internet search and sure enough, Chris Brown was off the south of France, vacationing on a yacht but his death was trending on twitter. He was nowhere near a car! These tweets are insensitive to family member, friends and fans. They cause many people to worry while others are tweet, retweet, and spread the rumor around. Eventually everybody finds out that it was a hoax but it’s has already done its damage by then. Twitter should hire people specifically for controlling these hoaxes by getting them off as soon as possible. These people should work over time to remove these death hoaxes.
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