p0wned !

Stories like these illustrate the reason why I've stopped using these social networking sites, especially Facebook. The amount of scams on there is ridiculous... all of those little "games" that your friends ask you to sign up to play are just scams to get you to agree to give them your contact information. Now lobbyists are succeeding to make themselves even more unreputable. Way to jump on the bandwagon.

It just goes to show you can't take the crazy out of crazy.

*sigh* Sadly, I asked out too many and found that there aren't quite as many experimental girls in college as you would think. I think there's something wrong with my gay-dar. Plus, my fetish for slightly overweight gamer geek boys always got in the way of being a full out lesbian. True story.

If by pointing out an over-inflated sense of superiority didn't tip off sarcasm, then I deeply apologize.

I did not mean to argue that homeschooled children are superior (though you could certainly interpret that if you did miss the sarcasm). On th contrary, it was to show that calling homeschooled children socially inept is just as ridiculous and prejudice as calling traditionally schooled children as being unintelligent.

I did forget to mention that several children are homeschooled because of mental or developmental problems to being with. Sitting here and referring to them as socially retarded in not so many words is not exactly tactful either.

Ooooh.... someone sounds bitter. So you would say that your fellow public school peers were on your level? You're saying that you're the "norm"?

The only problem I ever found with my own home-schooling experience was an over inflated feeling of superiority when I am around my traditionally educated peers. After the feeling of disdain wears off (I eventually come to terms with the fact that it's not their fault), all I'm left with is pity. Statistically, home-schooled children are more inclined to not only go to college than their traditionally schooled counterparts, but tend to favor private or ivy universities. Or perhaps those schools just favor them. One thing is for certain... we usually speak with more of an adult's capacity of vocabulary at an earlier age. This may cause scorn and ridicule... but it's rarely been a problem as an adult. I'm not sure if it's exactly fair to be comparing the social habits of home educated children with geeks simply because geeks just have a different way of thinking and processing information. They/we do things logically versus emotionally on a large scale. You don't need to be raised in a cave to have poor social skills. It's subject to personality types in general, not actual social stimuli. Can this behavior be taught? I personally don't think so. Not going about it that way. A class on self esteem or the art of conversation would be far more helpful.

What all this really means is those without a visual handicap will probably take advantage of such advances in technology to do more computing while driving. I'm certainly guilty of being able to create, write and send text without looking. The advent of the cell phone internet browser only promoted the ability to browse porn while driving, imho. Now if only they could translate THAT technological advance adequately for our visually impaired friends. Talk about a real contribution to society.

I wonder when it will be available in fuschia...