Dr Boyd: Teenagers

In this article they are talking about a 34-year-old woman named Dr. Danah Boyd. She was stating that us teenagers really don’t have as much freedom. Adults are very over protective. Not jus over there children but over everyone’s children. Like why does the school district block certain websites? She also said that the death percentage is actually less then from when she was younger. Dr. Boyd said when she was younger, 13 of he classmates passed away. Some form overdoses, suicides, accidents and murder. Dr Boyd mentioned that kids go online and say the things they say for attention. They write depressing/suicide song lyrics for an ex boyfriend to see, not actually to kill their selves. When she was younger she said “I would spend my teenage nights talking to strangers online, realizing there were other smart kids out there” see me, I would never do something like that. Unless I know you, I wouldn’t really say anything to you. I like this topic. The reason I like it is because she really understands us teens. Even though she is 34 years old doesn’t mean anything. Dr. Boyd was a teenager before, so that’s why I'm not understanding why our parents don’t understand what we are doing and why we do it. I’m actually glad that she wrote this article. Maybe more adults/parents would read it. This article did make me wonder. It made me wonder about parents/adults, like do they remember when they were teenagers and the stuff they did. Like parents now a days really expect their kids to be perfect. But they have to realize, its no such thing as perfect! Nobody’s perfect, and no one will ever be.  

Blue Ivy Carter

Beyonce and Jay-Z had a babygirl. Her name is Blue Ivy Carter. She was born on January 7, 2012. There where rumors that she was born days earlier, but that was the officila date. Since she has been born it has been a lot of gossip, saying they did not have a baby, Beyonce was never really pregnant, etc. But to top it all off they said that Beyonce had someone have the baby for her cause she did not want to mess up her beautiful body. I personally think she did have the baby herself, like who would lie about something like that. Also there were rumors that Beyonce and Jay-Z had rented out the whole maternity floor with top sercurity. But the hospital denied the rumors. The hospital stated that "The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations," Danza said in the statement. "Our executive suites are available for any patient, including the food service and amenities provided to the Carter family" So all the rumors can just stop now, was that all called for? I dont think so! All i have to say is im happy for the Carter family and i wish them luck on their newborn babygirl... Blue Ivy Carter (:

Most Popular Social Network: Twitter

Twitter is the most popular social network right now. Twitter seems to be so confusing to some people. Your goal on twitter is to have lots of tweets and followers. The more followers you have, the more popular you are on twitter. I am now working on my follower increase. On March 26, 2006 Jack Dorsey sent the world’s first tweet. A tweet is a post to the site. “Tweet” is also a verb, meaning to post a message.  Twitter didn’t become as popular until mid-2007/ 2008. I enjoy twitter a lot. Twitter mobile is more popular than the regular twitter. Some teens think it’s better because the way it is set up, it makes it easier to tweet. The definition of twitter is “to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird” and that is where the founders of twitter Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone got twitter’s logo from, which is a bird. Lady Gaga is the most popular person on twitter with about 12 million followers as of mid- 2011. Twitter has more than 200 million registered users. It is also the 9^th most popular site on the web. Twitter generates about 200 million tweets and handles 1.6 billion search queries each day. I find twitter very inspiring because you can see things like what your favorite artist/ people say to and about each other. The “#” symbol, called a hash tag, marks keywords or topics in a tweet. When twitter is unavailable or over capacity, the “Fail Whale” graphic appears on screen. Twitter is also based in San Francisco. Twitter has never failed me, and I will continue to love it.

TV show: The Game

Popular TV show “The Game” had just had their fifth season premiere on Tuesday January 10 2012. This show was first aired on October 1 2006. The main cast of the show are Tia Mowry as Melanie Barnett, Pooch Hall as Derwin Davis, Hosea Canhchez as Malik Wright, Wendy Raquel Robinson, as Tasha Mack, and Coby Bell as Jason Pitts. This show is basically about football players and their lives. Like whats happening in them. Melanie Barnett and Derwin Davis got married in like the last episode of season three. So Melanie Barnett is now Melanie Davis. Also when Derwin and Melanie were broken up on earlier episodes, Derwin went out and got a new girlfriend which led to her getting pregnant. So now Melanie has a stepchild which she is not really proud of. Actually she doesn’t really like it at all. But in the last episode of the fourth season, Derwin found out that Melanie had got an abortion. The way he had found out was because Melanie and Derwin were trying to have a baby, but she couldn’t get pregnant. So they went to the doctor and he had found out. Derwin was upset about that. He had a big outburst about that. Then Melanie had told Derwin that the baby that she was pregnant with wasn’t his. It was from a boyfriend that she had when they were broken up. Also Malik has a girlfriend named Jenna who is going through some problems right now and his mother Tasha is not really feeling that. She is really upset about that. Oh by the way Tasha was Derwins manager but she had quit to focus on her son, because she is also his manager. The next episode comes on this Tuesday January 17 2012 at 10:00 pm on BET. All I have to say is I really love this show!!!!!!!

Biggest story of the year: Casey Anthony

From my point of view, I think that the biggest story of the year is Casey Anthony when she was not found guilty. She was only found guilty in lying to the police. Like that is so not fair. I feel as though she did kill her daughter. They had all that evidence, but she was still found not guilty. Troy Davis had the death sentence and they did not have any evidence at all. They did not find no gun shells or nothing. But yet they still continued to keep him in jail. Also I see if they left him in jail for a couple of years and then released him, but no they just kept him in jail until they decided to kill him. Casey Anthony got found not guilty cause she had a white jury. That is pretty racist to me, and to a lot of other people think so too! After a while don’t you think it would be good to tell the truth? When I first heard about she was found not guilty I thought to myself the jury must have been white. Its no possible way they had all that evidence and that girl was found not guilty. Or unless she paid the jury. Plus she should have got locked up for drinking and passing out. I wonder do she have a guilty conscience about killing her child, by the way an innocent child. Did you see that little girl she was beautiful! I really would like to interview her and ask her what did she get out of killing her child? Is she proud of herself? I dont care if they say she did not kill, I still believe she did!

"Plan B" pill

The Plan B pill is a pill that prevents pregnancy after birth control failure. Plan B instructions state that you should take 1 pill within 72 hours after unprotected sex and 1 more pill 12hours later. However recent research indicates both doses can be taken at the same time up to 120 hours after unprotected sex. The pills are more effective the sooner they are taken, so you should take 2 Plan B pills at the same time as soon as possible after unprotected intercourse. Plan B is being replaced in pharmacies by Plan B One-Step. Plan B is available over the counter to women and men aged 18 and older, and by prescription to younger women. I think Plan B pill would be a great pill for some adults and teens that have unprotected sex. Research read that it will help you a lot, but the big question is “will it work?” I sometimes think it will work but then it wouldn’t. like I see a lot of advertisements of pregnancy prevention pills but I also see bad reviews of the pills which I saw for Plan B pill. If this pill is as great as it seems to be it could stop some of the teen pregnancies that we have today in Philadelphia. I think if the Plan B pill meets the needs that they say they will meet, people will become big fans of Plan B pill and they will receive positive feed back from their customers. Also i feel as though Obama's decision was okay. I mean what if someone dont have that type of relationship with their parent or guardian and they cant tell them that they are having sex or not. But then again if thy know they can get the plan b pill, they are goning to go around having sex like a lot of teenagers these days. Other than that everything else  I agree with. I hope the Plan B pill will bring success to each and everyone of their customers.