February, 9th, 2011 Leanne We first met when I was 12 or so and I really didn’t know much of him (computer). I was curious to find out more, when I started to see him more he always went away when I least expected it and only came back for a few minutes the next day. As I grew up it was harder to maintain spending time with him and also my school work and other things. "When he studied 'a little voice would be saying, 'Look up' at the computer, and I'd look up'”. (Ritchel,8) I mostly chose him over anything without hesitation. I could never concentrate when he was around and when I tried to do my homework with him he just distracted me by having better things to do. Although he's very intelligent and has shown and still shows me a lot, there can also be times when he tells me things i wish i didn’t know and that I probably could of lived without. Sometimes he causes problems between other people I know and he may bring the ugly out in everyone but he can also be sweet show me nice
things that they have to say. We are the same way, although he distracts me, he does it in a manner where i wouldn’t even realize. It’s hard to be around him and also be paying attention to my surroundings. When he's around it’s all about him and nothing else. I do take breaks from him though, maybe on the weekdays or weekends but there’s always something else connecting me back to him(phone). He gets annoying at times and always tells me unnecessary things. Sometimes it makes things harder on me because he takes up to much of my time. He's always helped to keep me and my friends closer, and has also helped me reconnect with old ones. "As social-networking sites expanded, it was no longer quite easy to have segmented identities"(ROSEN, 3). I feel he feeds people lies. He doesn’t seem like someone who would lie but he tells people mean things but also in return gets feedback that’s also negative but something you wouldn't expect from the person it is coming from. People act pretty different when he’s around even though I can tell who they really are because I’ve seen them when he isn’t. It’s pretty amusing the way people can just pretend to be someone they're not in front of him. He doesn't seem like a really good person does he? I've
realized while writing this that he has distant me from a lot of more important things. Like I said though he is very useful and good to have around but I’ve given him more attention the necessary. I know there are other people like me but haven’t quite realized it yet. They can learn from any experience that they hear that there are better things then just that one. He might even be a waste of time so you have to know when and how to distant yourself from him. I don’t really see him as much as I used to, I have actually lost interest. There are other things that are more important and take up my time more productively. Took me pretty long to realize that but better late than never. . Right?