<p>I thought this thread was about freshmen getting along with their roommates…</p>
<p>There’s a difference between having foosball tables in the break room and having employees ask you about such important issues like raises over Facebook or a text message.</p>
<p>“hey boss cn i gt a raise plz like 60K/yr thx” just wouldn’t really move me to give the guy a raise vs. having him come in and make a case for why he should get a raise.</p>
<p>Not to mention a hell of a lot of communication is non-verbal and you lose that when you’re, well, not talking face to face (or at least video chatting). I worry of a future where people just send texts and messages all day instead of actually talking to people. Sorta like a scarier version of Idiocracy.</p>
<p>I assure you that’s not a break room, maybe it is but doesn’t have to be. They also have on-site jacuzzi’s (unrelated but interesting). How is it different? I can’t talk about work while I’m playing a little 1v1 fooseball against you? Or pounding you in a video game or riding indoors on a scooter?</p>
<p>Sure not you… but you’re not the same as everyone else. Why would you be scared about it? You support these top companies every time you use their products… They’re products are secretly everywhere…</p>
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<p>Is anyone else really amused/bewildered by the housing lottery based on merit points at the end of the article?</p>
<p>I think a lot of incoming freshmen don’t even think about the process of choosing who to live with the following year (and how socially stressful and awkward it can be). And even the years after that. (Unless you want a single…) At my college (U Virginia) students are forced to choose by October/November who they are living with the next year. It is a bad system but it is a big university that has to accomodate a lot of housing requests, and the off-campus market is really competitive, banking on starting then too, so neither the housing department nor the off campus market will stop the early aggressive signings now…</p>
<p>I had an interesting situation where I lived with my roommate 2nd through 4th year (my first year roommate was great but we had nothing in common), and by 4th year a lot of our boundaries had come down, but that really worked against us and it created a lot of animosity. We were really good friends, but she would just do things that are horror-roommate attributes (eat my food, have late guests when I needed to sleep for my 8am classes, use my stuff and not give it back) because we were friends and “I wouldn’t mind” – it was fine when it was every now and then, but when those things were happening all the time it really was a bummer. You think by 4th year you have moved past all of the roommate drama but for me that was the only year I had any!!! :\ And it had nothing to do with the internet or cellphones. But I understand the points the article made, especially about those helicopter parents…</p>
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<p>You should just adapt… In reality it’s already happened.</p>
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<p>Man if I were a woman, MIT graduate, and just owned a Facebook to message people… I’d have a lot of power. At that point, who would even care about a measly raise.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what social engineering which has been around since the dawn of the Internet has to do with people choosing to text instead of talk, but ok.</p>
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<p>You are a badass. That’s pretty bold.</p>
<p>Some people just don’t get it. Zair, have you ever dealt with a probelm in person in your entire life? Goodluck with your raise over text message or facebook. Wow.</p>
<p>^Yea, easy. Have you?</p>
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<p>So basically, 3rd person omniscient view aside…</p>
<p>Some girl with naughty pictures adds you on Facebook and messages you</p>
<p>“Sorry to say, I’m not a Green Beret! Just a cute girl stopping by to say hey!”</p>
<p>and the response she gets is not always “go to hell,”</p>
<p>it’s “If I can ever be of assistance with job opportunities here at Lockheed Martin, don’t hesitate to contact me, as I’m at your service,” one executive at the company told her.</p>
<p>It’s all RIGHT THERE in the article. I thought the connection was pretty clear but apparently the fact that she’s fake throws the example out of the door… Figures. You know… This girl, Robin Sage, never once talked to these people… Well she can’t because she wasn’t real. Yet she gets everything… Over Facebook… But I suppose this means nothing to you. I mean, no girl like that could ever exist right? Terrorists are all part of our imagination.</p>
<p>What? I’m saying that what appeared in the article is nothing new. People have used fake personas online in order to get personal/sensitive information since the Internet was born. Facebook just happens to be the medium-du-jour. Before that it was MySpace and before that it was plain old email and newsgroups.</p>
<p>The fact that some person fell for it shows that even an idiot can become an executive of a defense company ;)</p>
<p>I’m still not sure what your point is though. I’d say something here like “your lips are moving but you’re not saying anything” but since this is a textual conversation, there aren’t really any lips :P</p>
<p>Story of my friend’s last semester. They hated each other as roommates, and went on FB bashing each other and they were both FB friends. They wouldn’t say anything to us, but we’d know something was up when we saw their FB status updates!!</p>
<p>People solving problems over the internet, or sending text in the same room…wow…that’s just WEIRD. I can’t believe people actually do that!</p>
<p>Must have been a slow news day and they needed something to fill the space. Having the college administration ‘speculate’ about why and then quote that in their article sounds more like something for the editoral page than a news article.</p>
<p>I live off campus sans room-mate because most of them are a headache. They are loud, intrusive, irresponsible, and not worth the trouble.</p>
<p>That said, to think that the salaries of the extra staff members needed to mediate this nonsense is being paid for from tuition is sickening. Better to let the monkeys move to an apartment and save the rest of us the money.</p>