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As I come closer to the end of my journey at Ole Miss and move into the professional world, I have become exceedingly thoughtful about my communication with friends, family and colleagues, or the lack thereof. 

I have recently become puzzled by the fact that I only get to know some people on the surface. I often find myself questioning whether or not I have a desire to get to know people better, or is it that we live in a society where social networks inhibit our ability to get to know people beyond what meets the eye? 

With websites like Facebook and Twitter, we have several opportunities to expand our roster of “friends” and “followers.”

Last week’s protests against the would-be anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA got global attention; Wikipedia claims that over 160 million people saw their page denouncing the bills, and at least that many people laid eyes on Google’s “censored” logo. Now, voting on both bills has been “delayed indefinitely” due to the public outcry against them, but there still seems to be some confusion about what the fuss was about in the first place.

Be honest, have you really read and loved the entire works of Dostoevsky in the original Russian? Do you really celebrate the entire catalogue of Woody Allen’s early works? If you’re lying about anything in an online profile, it could soon be a criminal offense if the White House gets its way.

I’ve struggled with whether or not I should write about something as personal as my own religion and for a number of reasons.  

I know it’s not kosher for a columnist to write about themselves writing and the process that they go through, but I feel like it’s necessary in this  case, so bear with me.  

Proposition 26.  We’ve all heard of it, whether it’s from flyers thrown in our face, heated Facebook debates or even discussions amongst our peers.  

There are valid points on either side, but the loosely written amendment has a lot of Mississippians seriously worried. Those wondering exactly what this four-lined amendment entails for women’s contraceptive rights need to look no further than The Robert C. Khayat Law School, which will host a community forum tonight at 5 p.m. in room 1078.

The tools and tricks of modern technology like the Internet, Facebook, email, texting and Twitter have created platforms upon which we can reach entire social networks in seconds, with only a few clicks of a mouse.
We can communicate, comment and share information like never before, with an ease that many of us take for granted.
Beyond making it socially acceptable for us to share the miscellaneous details of our daily lives through a status update or tweet, networking tools have proven revolutionary when it comes to organization, especially in politics.

On June 28, Google launched a campaign to kill Facebook.

President Barack Obama is holding the first-ever town hall Q&A session with Americans via the social network Twitter on July 6. 

I for one, am very interested in the leader of our country’s attempt at intertwining social networking with government business. I don’t think I have any real problems with it; after all, the president held a Facebook town hall in April and successfully used the site during his 2008 campaign. 

Ever since our generation got its hands on the computer, Google was the search engine god of the Internet. It answers all our questions from health diagnostics to directions to our favorite restaurants. 

Since everyone thinks so highly of it, we expect a genius team to come up with anything and be successful at it.