Super Bowl Sunday is all the hype from January up until February when it happens. The grocery and party stores have massive sales and promos and the large national companies are preparing their commercials. Tonight I watched the Super Bowl with two of my roomates and we had a casual night in. Instead of going to a typical super bowl party, we simply picked up take-out from various restaurants and watched the game in the comfort of our own home. Since the Falcons were not in the game, none of us really cared about the game or who won. What we did care about was Beyonce's Half-Time performance and the reunion of Destiny's Child. I actually find it funny that tonight's game held one purpose for the boys and another purpose entirely for the girls. Obviously the boys cared about the game, but the girls cared about the performances and the commercials. Just take a look on twitter, facebook, and instagram and you will see the proof to my statements. All of my girl friends went twitter crazy during half-time. One of my personal favorite facebook statuses was about the reunion of Destiny's Child and how anyone under the age of 17 would have had no idea who the two girls performing with Beyonce were. I sometimes forget about the different generation gaps and how those younger than my group of friends grew up with different pop singers and boy band collections. However there are those certain artists that everyone no matter their age can relate to or enjoys listening to. One group in particular would be the Rolling Stones. The Stones have been around since my parents were young yet we are able to share the enjoyment of watching them perform live together.
Although I may be able to enjoy certain music with my parents, there are other things we do not similarly share. On nights like tonight my parents probably have no idea who many tweets or facebook statuses are updated. If they weren't watching the game, they would not find out nearly as quickly about what is occurring. The social media world allows my generation in particular and those immersed in social media to be in constant communication. Social media allows us to constantly know if something is happening even if we aren't watching it. Most of the time you can have all of the details of a particular event without even watching it because of your friends posts on twitter. This can be a good and a bad thing. At times it can be very comical but at others it can become overwhelming and annoying. On nights where I am able to enjoy the performance I think social media makes it more entertaining, but if I had to be studying tonight and wasn't able to see Beyonce, I believe that social media would have further made me feel excluded. I don't believe that it is meant to feel this way, but people are always going to feel left out when they are not able to partake in the fun. In my case, whenever I am really stressed out about school, I try to remove myself from social media entirely so that I am not distracted and so I don't lower my mood even further. Social media is capable of being extremely entertaining but it is also capable of being the biggest distractor when trying to be productive. I guess that is why I am lucky that this semester I am taking a social media class. Technically, I am doing school work if I procrastinate by playing on facebook and twitter. Now if only I could convince my parents that.
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