I think it’s so ironic when stories come across my screen that directly relates to what I am so passionate about.
I wont explain what this is, but I will tell you that its interesting.
The ripple affect
Considering rebellion was on the rise (speaking of many years ago, like the 1950’s to 1990), and cities rapidly growing. The introduction of television and then most impressively the invention that changed the world faster than anything; w.w.w.
This means your cool.
Aka the World Wide Web. It took just one person to create a trend. (Example, sagging pants, pants inside-out and backwards, slicked back greased hair, and the quite popular, the “Hollywood style sunglasses”. The popularity of the iPhone when it came out was shocking. In an article I read on, smallbusiness.chron.com, it talked about why the iPhone is so popular with so many people. Impressively within the first 4 years Apple Inc. sold more than 100 million phones. And more shockingly 18.6 million of those, sold within the first quarter. Now I am no math genius but, ya feel me? Wow! This article, which was written by Jason Artman, is claiming the reason for such popularity of the iPhone is due to the ability to control both the hardware and software. Tons of people don’t even know what those are. *chuckles* Again, I have to give a crooked eye to that claim. I worked for Apple doing tier 3 technical support. All day I did my best at helping iPhone users only, how to use and repair (or not) their phone. Even for me, the functionality of the iTunes store was not a user friendly program. Funny consideration too, the iPhone user manual is so large that the only way you can view it is online. That right there screams complicated. Personally, I’m not really buying Mr. Artman’s explanation of the why this device is so popular.
None of which doubled as a camera. Matter of fact, they only made phone calls.
This is an easy answer. The iPhone was commercialized, big time, long before it came out. It was talked up as being the future-of-today for mobile communication. Then once the celebrities and A-list people exclaim how great it is, and you just have to try it, boom! Society ran out and bought. People even slept in tents outside
When you gotta have it. I guess.
electronic stores so they can save their spot in line until the store opened. (See attached photo) Point is, and I hope that you are following my logic here, is things become “cool things to do” because seemingly “cool people” are doing them and saying its so. If it can be used to increase popularity on clothing or electronics, it can be used to show the young and old that we are all wonderful people. (For the most part.)
It takes one hair to ruin the whole dish pt. 2
With that we can understand how easy it was to get a trend going. Trends meaning things that are popular like; clothing, shoes, hair, how dark your fake tan is, etc. And also the reverse side of trend meaning things that we “should” be against and look down upon if witnessed. What I’m talking about is ideas that are put into peoples heads. Like brain-washing.
The face you make when your mom asks you to clean the toilet.
“Your not cool if you don’t have a cell phone!” “Your even more uncool if your phone is not an iPhone!” “If you see a person that is not as cool as you, give them the up-and-down look to let them know you were just judging them!” Then roll your eyes as if to give them an, “I am cooler than you” look. “Now keep doing this to that person so they don’t forget that you are still cooler than they are.”
“Don’t pick up anything off the floor!” (I’ll explain.) People drop things. Yet, “I just got my nails done, eew!” “I’m too involved with myself right now that I don’t have time to help anyone else!” “Lets just sit here and laugh at them because they are too clumsy to keep it together!” “How stupid can you be to drop your news paper?” These are just a few of some explanations I could come up with that I see and hear people do. Some of them don’t even have to speak.
I’ve seen this face made towards heavier people the most.
Its all shown in the face, look. I’ve seen as little as 1st graders use some of these. Funny thing, is that I thought that kids grow out of that “needing to be better than you” stage. Sadly I was wrong and it actually gets worse.
It takes one hair to ruin the whole dish
Hey guys, thanks for being bored and stumbling across my blog. Just kidding. If I didn’t mention it yet, my name is Tish. I’m 30 years old, and I have a daughter. I want to thank anyone and everyone who read my first blog and who decides to keep reading and growing with me. I’ve gotta tell ya, that I was pretty ticked the other day with the incident at the gas station. It got me thinking about how time has changed the way society treats each other.
These kids don’t understand why they are being mean. Because everyone else is doing it too?
Seems to me, you have to wear the right clothes, drive a nice car, and seemingly most apparent, you have to be “considered beautify” by others to feel accepted. What happened to us? I know that bullying has been around since school began, but kids weren’t committing suicide over a couple bullies. Now there are massive shootings at schools because some teenager is fed up with how they are treated. If you also have an opinion about these issues, lets talk about it. So, I decided to start a blog because I am fed up with how inconsiderate and selfish Americans are today. The only person I have had that will listen to me is my daughter. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great listener. But I want to spread my words. I am hoping this will eventually get to people that take me seriously and pass it on. And I have so many things to talk about. There are so many things that disturb and trouble me. Now; some may argue that there is nothing I can do to help anything, and one person can’t change the world. Then I would say to that, “you are absolutely correct!”. But I want to propose a different way (or I could use the word angel) of thinking for everyone. Other words, thinking outside the box, in someone else’s shoes, and on a different level than you. If you don’t already, ask yourself how things become popular in the first place? How did the dying of peoples hair in funky color’s become world wide? One answer could be that it started with one person who stepped outside the”imaginary-judgmental-society-box” and decided to be different. Said the “who cares” and did something that they liked. Which showed other’s that it was okay to be different. A lot of people sneered at the mere idea of a boy wearing his hat backwards. Said that it was a sign of disrespect. But why? Because people complained! And when enough people complain to the right group of people, laws are invented. Crazy silly laws that make us wonder what happened to create such a ridiculous law. Here’s one that is no longer enforced but still proves my point; “One may be jailed for wearing a hat while dancing, or even for wearing a hat to a function where dancing is taking place.” (Fargo, North Dakota) [http://www.thedatereport.com search: dumb-us-laws.]
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