July 1, 2010

Happy nine month anniversary to me and Thailand!

Maybe I should change the name of my blog

to "rebeccausedtobeontheinternet.blogspot.com" and then cease blogging altogether. This is disturbing.

"The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with such devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted. And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting, or the half-hour they talk on their cellphones....

The study’s findings shocked its authors, who had concluded in 2005 that use could not possibly grow further[.]"