Addicted!

The second skin documentary was very informative and interesting. Never  before have I seen such displays of video game addiction. I know back whenever I was in middle school I thought I was bad when I played Halo 2 after school for many hours at a time. I now know that my time spent in Halo 2 doesn't even come close to the Hours spent by the people in the second skin documentary.  To someone who is uneducated in these types of games it would seem that the gamer is just wasting his/ her life away in front of the computer. But me knowing a good deal about all sorts of games know what's going on. In these "mmorpgs" players cooperate to complete certain objectives or just socialize. In the mind blowing amount of hours that players put into these games it's not surprising that they meet people who they want to become friends with. It's the same thing with any sports team or organization.  The only difference is their world isn't real. While I don't doubt the ability to create relationships inside these types of games spending days worth of time inside an imaginary is completely ridiculous. There is a plethora of examples of how people waste their time playing these games. The four main guys in the documentary all took off vacation days to play the new expansion, one of them even mentioned playing for 18 hours straight. Another player said that he had logged over 100 days of playtime. What a waste of time.   

                  This video pretty much sums up the whole second skin documentary in 5 minutes


Games are not the only computer centered activity that solicits copious amounts of hours from our day though. In the post human section of  Culture Jam  there is a passage about a woman whose addiction to a chat room destroyed her life. she didn't shower in 4 days and her speech had become slurred  so that there was no breaks in between any words. I think people take these social networking sites way to seriously. "liking" pages on Facebook has gone way out of control ie. the page "Turning off the downstairs lights and running upstairs so no one kills you". All of those pages are garbage, I know it doesn't take long to generate  a page but all they want to do is have fans and it's obnoxious. Social networking has gone completely out of control and it's for reasons like the ones above that people get obsessed.

Hey Everybody!

This is a story about Jon Witte. In 2008 Jon started his journey at Shippensburg University and has been striving for greatness ever since. he currently a Management Information Systems major in the college of business.  Jon hails from Fairless Hills which is located in the southern part Bucks County, PA. The only upside about living there is that it is very close to Philadelphia, about a half hour away. In the summer, Jon works at a public pool. He has been working there for 5 years but hasn't had to save any lives yet. Maybe if he didn't fall asleep on the stand he could pay better attention. In addition to being a mediocre lifeguard, Jon likes to watch sports, highly intellectual  movies and play lots of video games (but not too much). Jon's current favorite song is "I just had sex" by the lonely island, but he also likes a wide variety of music.

Alright, I'm done writing in the third person now, the task has proved rather difficult. I just wanted to do something different compared to a normal bio. Unfortunately,  as I continued writing though the third person stuff was starting to get repetitive so I stopped. All of the information above is true, but here are a few more interesting bits of information.In high school I did marching band and we were so good that we were invited to Hong Kong to play at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament. Playing in front of 50,000 people was awesome, although I think the audience was more interested in the streaker that ran on the field during our show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLOOGSJES_E). Lastly, I went skydiving my freshmen year. It was the best experience ever, there is no other rush like it. That's everything that I can think to write about. I look foward to blogging in the future!