Breaks

     Breaks are a big part of our lives. For the most part, they go along with jobs. If you work four or five hours, you get a fifteen minute break. If you work six or more, you get at least a half an hour. These are awesome, because it lets you take a much needed "break" from work, and also helps pass some of the time without being completely bored. 


     Breaks are mandatory at work, however, they are not at home. Yet at home, it seems, is when we take most of our breaks. Chore breaks, homework breaks, you name it. The type of breaks I seem to take a lot of are homework breaks for TV. Now I know I'm not the only one out there, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Sometimes, after hours of staring at a computer screen, sometimes even a matter of minutes ;) , you really just need to let your brain rest and do something that relaxes you, or that you enjoy and the very least. 
     
     Eating is another great example of a break. It always seems that when I am bored, which would include doing homework, that the fridge always pops into my mind. I take a little stroll down to the kitchen and open it up just to stare at it sometimes, even if I don't get anything to eat. It seems to be common for me to repeat this step a couple more times before I finally break down and just pick something. In fact, maybe you are munching on a snack, or sipping a drink at this very moment while you read this. 

     Anyway, a break is a break, whether for five minutes or five hours. They are relied upon, and actually needed in most situations. Don't feel too bad if you take too many breaks, you aren't the only one. Procrastination on the other hand is another story...

Those People who Just Love Attention

     Those "people" that I am referring to, would be the attention seeking, insecure people on Facebook. From the article On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You, I learned that I am not the only person who notices that there are desperate people out there who will post something-anything just to be liked, or have their status "liked." 


     Now author Jacquielynn Floyd is talking about when people go too far and share too much of their personal information on the internet, and then are scared or worried when someone they don't really know gets that information. In this argument, I totally agree with Floyd. No one would no anything about you unless you told them first. Posting things about your personal life on a site like Facebook, or anywhere on the internet, is just asking for it. 


     Floyd used good information to back up her writing, and she used good emphasis to back up her point. Giving examples helped paint a very clear picture in how people endanger themselves by posting personal information online. 


     I hope that her argument will reach out to a few people and they will be able to recognize if they fall into that category. People get so wrapped up in "friend requests" and how many "likes" you receive, that they sometimes forget the information they post, and just how many of their Fb "friends" are actually their friends in real life. Floyd uses a similar example in her article, and I really helps point out the main problem. So in the end, Floyd's argument was both relevant and realistic, as well as valid and backed up.