Digital Duds

Dating is Dead

Recently an article in the Daily Campus, written by Nikki Cloer discussed the movement of the current dating culture into cyber space. The article titled, “Dating is Dead,” pleaded that people stop relying on text messaging and facebooking to contact people and actually pick up the phone.

I totally agree.

I personally have had similar experiences to the author where someone you didn’t realize you knew, or better yet you didn’t realize knew you, messages or friend requests you on facebook. It’s just creepy.

Honestly, us girls really don’t ask for much. Introduce yourself and show us that you want to get to know us. Any guy who asks a girl out without even knowing her name by, facebook message is obviously in it for the wrong reasons. Don’t be a “virtual Romeo.”

Dating is not the only place that people have become obsessed with communicating digitally. Everywhere you go people seem to have a cell phone glued to their ear. People create their own community…their speed dial list. Forget casual conversation amongst the people around you, or even moments of mental peace. We have to communicate with people in one form or another all the time.

Think about college students. We are either in class (often texting), out of class on the phone, hanging out with our friends, or talking to them online. Whatever happened to being alone in your own thought?

I think that the digital age as Nikki said has contributed to the ‘death of dating,’ but something else is lost when you don’t talk to people face to face. You can’t sense expression, personality, or emotion (as much as the emoticon tries). People need to not only call people versus text messaging, but get off the phone, look around you, be a part of the community you live in rather than only those you “accept friend request” to.

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Argument Paper

Claim: Stop thinking about work in such a negative way.
• Reason: Our dislike of work is an arbitrary learned behavior
o Evidence: paraphrase: we are brainwashed by the media to dislike work (Finding Flow, 50).
Reason: We are surrounded by media that suggests that work is a negative thing that we shoud not like
o Evidence: http://www.disgruntledworkforce.com/blog/


• Reason: We actually like work because it gives us a sense of purpose
o Evidence: Use The Function and Meaning of Work and the Job book.


Claim: Our negative view of work begins with our first jobs as teens in the minimum wage workforce.
• Reason: We begin taking jobs for the sole purpose of making money even though it does nothing to better ourselves, or our careers.
o Evidence: I would reference personal experience as well as the experiences of high school friends.
• Reason: Having a job makes us feel as though we are doing something positive even if we dislike the work itself.
o Evidence: “Work is a strange experience: it provides some of the most intense and satisfying moments, it gives a sense of pride and identity, yet it is something most of us are glad to avoid”(Finding Flow, 49).
• Reason: Having a more positive relationship between the adult workforce and teen workforce would benefit both parties.
o Evidence: Working at Cupcake Royale gave me a meaningful mentoring experience from an adult in my desired profession versus my friend who worked at starbucks.
o Evidence: Youth have unrealistic high goals for their jobs because of the lack of meaningful job opportunities and adult mentors (Finding Flow, 53)

Claim: Given the option to have enough money to never work again most people would continue to work.
• Reason: People like the feeling that someone is relying on them
o Evidence: My grandparents, my grandfather is lively and productive and still holds a job. My grandmother retired years ago and with the loss of her job lost her sense of motivation.
• Reason: Without work people feel lost.
o Evidence: Talk about dad retiring
o Evidence: Use American Sociological Review stats



Ultimately I want this paper to prove that we whine too much. Work is a part of life and whether we want to admit it or not we love it, and we would feel lost without it.

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