This isn't even Mark blogworthy. The fact that it's on CNN International is just as ridiculous.
"Of more than 2,500 university and college students polled across Canada, 87 percent of them are having sex over instant messenger, Webcams or the telephone, according to results of a national survey released on Monday." And "eighty-seven percent of those polled claimed to be sober at the time."
Now something confuses me about this report. I am sure there is a perfectly logical explanation. But why is "Webcams" capitalized? Is it a proper noun? That is what I would assume but to me it has always been the generic term for any camera you plug into your comp with the purpose of recording/sending some type of video. And if so, why isn't "instant messenger" also capitalized. To me, "instant messanger" is AOL Instant Messenger. It is not a general term for all online chat programs. The popular ones all have their own respective names such as MSN/Windows Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger.
Well, the other problem I have is that CNN makes it sound like this is a kind of ultra safe sex. But still, if you get virtually engaged, how are you going to tell your virtual wife that you've had virtual sex with all sorts of virtual girls (aka dudes)? And what about all those computer viruses? Oh no!
1 comment:
I think it's odd that your first problem with the report is that Webcam is capitalized.
Perhaps it's like Kleenex, it's such a common brand that people use it like a regular noun even if it's a proper noun.
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