As most all Facebook users have already played and become addicted to these games where you have to try and take care of things. Farmville, Happy Aquarium and Roller Coaster Kingdom are three examples of these games that I have played. Now I will say I have become addicted to my fish, my crops and animals and making sure my amusement park isn’t going to shut down. When my fish get too hungry I worry about them and if my crops wither I’m scared that I’m not taking good enough care of them.

I remember as a child playing games like these, except they were mostly for taking care of dogs or cats on a little hand-held device. Giga-Pets were very popular when I was in the 3^rd grade. I remember when I asked for a puppy for Christmas one year, my mom gave me a giga-pet instead of an actual dog. When she gave it to me she said if I could keep my giga-pet puppy alive, then I could have an actual puppy. It was used as a way to teach children responsibility. But now as a young adult with these Facebook games I feel like I’m being taught again how to be responsible. I feel like Facebook is trying to tell me that I am not responsible enough yet to take care of things on my own. I feel like being 18 you should know how to be responsible or not and know how to make the decisions that with either help or hinder your future.

As Halloween is this Saturday and most everybody is rushing to get their costumes, candy and finalize the decorations for their homes. Most college students are just getting costumes and deciding which party will be better. While I was shopping for costumes with my friends, we all kept asking the same question; why are girl’s costumes so slutty? I always said the same response, a quote from the movie Mean Girls, “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” My friends and I all wanted to find something that was cute, that people would know and that wasn’t too trashy. All the costumes we tried on though were very tight and short. Also the costumes only look truly flattering on the models in the pictures, usually most girls can’t pull them off like the models can. This is because these costumes are made for the certain type of girl that American thinks is the most beautiful: big breast, skinny waist and long legs.

I don’t understand why our costumes have to look this. They are somewhat demeaning; not to be a huge feminist or anything, but we do costume designers assume women want to look like sluts? What’s the point? Its not going to make us look any better, in some ways it will make us look worse. I just want to be something cute and that will make me look good instead of showing my assets off to the world.