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TIME FOR A CHANGE Dear X-Press, I don’t know about you, but I signed up to Facebook in 2006 and in 2007, I really started using it quite a bit. In the last few years, I’ve decided to spend less time wincing at the sight of ex-girlfriends canoodling on the beach with studs and have made my log-ins few and far between. This brings me to my point – why the fuck did Mark Zuckerberg get named Time magazine’s Person Of The Year for something that was unique and innovative a few years ago? Is it because a bunch of dudes made a movie about him this year? Firstly, Zuckerberg got pipped at the post by a little ol’ site called MySpace that all the kids were doing the top down pouty sunglass poses on first and, secondly, social networks have already picked up the award when Time named “You” or “the millions of anonymous contributors” who used Facebook and YouTube and all the social networking sites as the 2006 Person Of The Year. It goes without saying that Julian Assange is the most important man in the world right now. Wikileaks has had governments all over the world whipped into a frenzy because he’s used freedom of information for the benefit of ordinary people. We have a right to know about what the government covers up and the fact that he’s getting treated like a terrorist on
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charges which professional athletes get away with every day is testament to this. On Facebook, everyone’s information is on display for all to see. There’s significantly more information on the internet about you than you would like thanks to Facebook. People’s accounts get hacked all the time and then all the friends get targeted. The advertising is catered towards your likes, marital status and anything else you write on the site. While we pay nothing to use the site, there’s plenty of valuable information on there that’s sold to marketing companies everyday. Is this really something we should be rewarding? It’s a case of rewarding big brother for distributing all of our personal details, while the man trying to even the playing field is held down. For shame Time magazine, you used to be relevant. Now you’re rewarding a website that tells us which Disney princess we are.
There seems to be this unwritten rule where people think that you’re allowed to drive as fast as you want when you’re in the right lane because you’re more important than other road users and you deserve to get where you’re going in slightly less time than everybody else. Well let me tell you all something, right lane speeders, they are no unwritten road rules. On Boxing Day while making the pilgrimage to Bunbury, I was in the right lane, cruising along at about 114 in the 110 zone. But this just wasn’t good enough for the jerk-off driving a van that was tailgating me. As soon as an opening of two metres was there between my car and the car of the dude next to me in the left lane, van driver changed lanes, had his head hanging out the window yelling at me like I had super sensitive ears that could understand what someone in another car was saying while my windows were wound up and we’re both speeding into wind. He almost lost control as he immediately got back in the right lane and now Winston Smith I can only hope that when he did crash that day, Via email that he only killed himself and not any innocent bystanders. ROAD RAGE When driving to Southbound this weekend, I certainly hope I don’t have to deal with Dear X-Press, ‘roided-up road ragers who think they’re entitled to endanger the lives of careful drivers. All it takes Driving down south over the Christmas break is a slip up while you’re abusing someone in the was certainly a pain in the rear this year. But it car next to you and you’re toast. wouldn’t have been such a headache if people who drive in Western Australia were aware of the Curtis E Via Email road rules.
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