"Meet 5,000 New Best Pal's"

In the essay "Meet My 5,000 New Best Pal's"  by Janet Kornblum, she explains how having online network friends is different then having face-to-face friendship. I would have to agree with her, just because you are friends with someone on facebook or myspace doesn't really mean you are friends with them. I know some of my friends have a little over 1,00 friends on facebook and they only really know about half of them if even that. Just because you are friends with people on facebook or myspace does not necessary mean you are friends with those people. I know at times there are many people who will ask to be my friend on facebook because we both go to West Chester University but sometimes I don't even know them so I either decline or accept them. Some of my friends just like to see how many friends they can have on facebook because it makes them feel more popular if they have a lot. Kornblum even talks about how people try to collect friends to see how many people they can put on their network due to popularity reasons. Therefore I agree with this essay that there is a distinct line between friendships and friending.  I also found some of this essay to be funny especially when it talks about the girl named Valerie and her myspace friends. I think that is dumb how she wont be peoples friends if they don't have a certain amount of friends but then she will be friends with someone else she might not know because they are cute or something. Although at times this essay was also sad because it talks about how some teens look for friends online because they don't have any friends. It was interesting how the author explains how their are rules that were made by many using myspace because if they are rules i never followed them. I refuse to have myspace because I feel it is unsafe and dumb I will just stick to facebook.  

"Supernatural Girls"

In the essay "Supernatural Girls" by Kathleen Sweeney she talks about the supernatural girls on television shows starting to emerge in the 1990's. She used many examples that many of us may be familiar with such as, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, X-Men, and Harry Potter. I agree with what she is saying, supernatural girls have given females a different reputation now. Young girls look at these supernatural girls in television as role models. I know when I was little I use to always watch the Power Rangers and wanted to be just like the pink female range. She could beat up all the guys, I thought that was so cool. Also watching the Power Rangers lead me to play sports with all the boys instead of girls because I felt I was accomplishing more by beating a boy at a sport. I mean the Pink Power ranger always beat up the boys so thats what i wanted to do through sports. I wanted to have the power that the Pink Power Ranger had which is what Sweeney talks about in this essay. For example Buffy in the television show was a powerful female that many younger females looked up to her. Every child has a role model of some sort and they try to be just like their role model. 

"The Mulatto Millennium: Waking Up in the Age of Racial Ambiguity"

The article "The Mulatto Millennium: Waking Up in the Age of Racial Ambiguity" by Danzy Senna was interesting to read. In the beginning of this article the author is angry about the idea of multiracial identification but at the end she becomes neutral. It was interesting that her parents raised her and her sister according to their race and wanted to make sure people noticed that. I also thought her list of actors/actresses in Hollywood that might not know they are black was very funny. I didn't even know some of those actors/actresses have some African American decent in them. I have a couple friends that are half black and half white and their complexion is a majority white but they are still clarified by the public as being black. I don't understand why people label people in those certain categories, I feel like it is disrespectful to do so.  At times i found this article to be a little funny at times. I especially found the last category "Black Folks You Kinds Wish Weren't Black" very funny because some of my African American friends don't categorize Michael Jackson as being black.