I am brown. A simple golden brown, a nice color no doubt but nothing special. Contrary to my own beliefs, many people are enamored with this skin tone. Something about this constant tan that came with my genes makes many people green with envy.

Not only have my peers envied my complexion but more and more people are attempting to copy it. Whether it is with tanning booths, tanning lotions, tanning sprays, or just lying out in the sun, people seem to be willing to go to any lengths to achieve that perfect golden brown. These various facts bring me to ask, what is pretty about being tan?

Facebook has become widely popular in a short amount of time and thousands upon thousands of people use it everyday, but is it being overused by some people?

            There are many people around the world who find it necessary to update their status almost every hour of every day.  To be frank, it does not really matter to me one way or another whether you are “loling at Dodgeball [the movie] right now.”  It is so infantile and useless for people to update their statuses like this nonstop.

            If you only update your status once or twice, in a span of a couple weeks, than you are most likely not obsessed with Facebook.  My status rarely ever changes unless I have something important to say.  For instance, if my favorite basketball team won a championship, my status would be “Go Heels!” 

            Another factor in classifying someone as obsessed with Facebook is if you see that they become fans of anything.  Some of the things people have become fans of are “flipping over the pillow to the cool side,” “If your name starts with A, B, C, D, E, J, K, L, M, S, T then you’re cool!!,” and “I hate it when you walk outside and a giraffe kicks you in the -----” to name a few.

            The last group is especially ridiculous.  When in the world would a giraffe perform such a pointless action and why would anyone become a fan of this or have this occur to them?  This is one of the unfortunate flaws of Facebook: pointless groups and pages.

            The last part that makes a person obsessed with Facebook is if they consistently comment on everyone’s status or “like” it.  The last thing that I am worried about is that you like Joe Shmoe’s status that he saw The Hangover.

            Users of Facebook that find it necessary to comment on every person’s status, picture, or whatever it comes out to be are obsessed with Facebook and there is no denying it.  Even if they say, “Oh I just saw it on my News Feed,” you saw it on your news feed and you still commented on it.

            People who feel the need to constantly tell people what they are doing are insecure about themselves.  They believe that by putting what they are doing out there for everyone to see it will make them feel better about themselves.  In reality, it does nothing but make me think less of you.

            There was a craze that went through Facebook a couple of years ago called “25 random things about myself.”  In one of the random facts about someone, it said, “I’m writing this list for sympathy and attention.”

            Proving my point, some users even admit to putting useless information about themselves in order to gain attention from everyone and anyone.  The real way to tell someone about yourself is in person, not through an online website.  That’s how people become shy and are unable to make new friends easily.

This year’s senior class has been filled with a wide variety of athletically talented students. But when it comes to the hardwood, there is one player that sticks out in your mind.

Evan Kelley (10’) has made a name for himself over his past four years in high school. He is a physical specimen standing at 6’4’’ 180 pounds of pure manly man. Not to mention he has a devastating jumper and an unparalleled ability to drive the lane.

Evan was born and raised here in Norwalk and ever since he could remember he has had a basketball in his hand.

“I have been playing since I was five, I wasn’t the best ball handler but I have always been a good shooter,” said Kelley.

Profanity is usually used when someone hurts themselves. Most of the time it accidentally slips out of their mouths, but nowadays students scream across the halls, “shut the #@?*! up you $?*@!”

Wayne Williams (‘10) said, “I feel that people are ignorant when they use bad language. If people can’t say a whole sentence without using foul language I feel that they are lacking knowledge.”

Many see students using bad language having no respect for the school, the staff, or other students. Many times during lunch, a crowd of students wander the halls disturbing other class rooms.

Norwalk high school has a coffee shop but students are not allowed to use it so students have to go all the way to Starbucks or Donkin Dounut’s to get a coffee when we have a coffee shop in school.

That means we either walk to those places or we drive and driving takes up gas, gas is not cheap at all it cost money.