Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
Or, a rolling facebook page. Even if all students are doing is chatting, emailing, and posting to their facebook pages and a few are doing school work, that’s better than being bored and getting rowdy.
A wifi bus is a good thing and I only wish MTA would make a wifi Metro North.
Call me cynical and an anti-geek (which I am not), but God forbid kids should get rowdy and “jump around” and actually interact in person. I am witness almost daily to the silence of the Uconn student union, with everyone online and phones and ipods. It’s creepy.
Conversation is becoming a thing of the past, and it is scary to note the speed at which many kids are becoming unable to string a few full sentences together on those rare occasions when it is necessary.
Sheryl: True enough. You’ve turned me around. I had that feeling when I read this initially but somehow didn’t process it quite as cynical/realistically as you did.
That said, had there been wifi on my school bus during high school, I’m pretty sure I’d have been harassed less because the kids who harassed me would have been busy preening their facebook personaes.
True, plus nice nerdly guys have somewhat ascended the high school (or at least college) social ladder, so in some ways, you would probably be better off in school nowadays.
I’d be all for a wi-fi bus; as long as the driver wasn’t…
Sandy: You don’t need wifi to watch TV and that’s what a lot of these drivers on busses are doing. Ugh.