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Television in my house was always seen as a kind of family time or a 'pleasant diversion'. We always watch the news together and shows like Big Brother and Survivor. I never had much of rules with television i just had to make sure that homeowork was finished before i could watch tv with them. Most people that that watching tv will make you stupid or something like that but i think that if you watch it in periods and get work done nothing will be wrong with you. People that watch tv everynight at a certain time freak out when they are out past that time and have to scurry home to watch their favorite show. Television is in a way taking over peoples time, noe they have toget home eat dinner and watch their shows.

HEY AUNT MARY!!!

So Aunt Mary, Social networks are pretty fun things that allows you to communcate to people all over the world based off of your common interests. The best network for you to join now would be Facebook. Facebook lets you connect to people from your old high school and college, if you become friends with some one you can look at who you are connected to via 'friends you may know' . You can also see friends that you might know on the homepage because of the links you are connected to on your page. Facebook is also a place for older people and kids, so this would be the best place for you Aunt Mary. This site is pretty easy to use and navigate, your best bet is FACEBOOK.
You are welcome,
Love Paige

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I chose Tara Lipinski, who was a gold medalist in 1998 at age 15.

The biggest controversy is Tara Lipinski's age and why she went pro so fast. One comment read, "Lipinski's retirement from competitive skating was controversial for two main reasons: first, because she was so young and had such a short career at the elite level, and second, because so many of her statements (and/or those of her agent) about her motivations for turning pro were more or less immediately contradicted by her own actions. And then later on she changed her whole story and said she turned pro because of her hip injury, which she had never previously mentioned as being a factor at all. Personally, I don't know what to think the true story might be, or why she felt it necessary to make excuses for her decision at all. And, FWIW, I don't really blame Lipinski herself for any of this, and actually feel quite sorry for her. She was just a kid at the time, and I think she and her parents were getting a lot of bad advice from her agent, Mike Burg, who was more concerned about making a quick buck off Lipinski's Olympic medal rather than what was in the best interests of his client's long-term career."

People kept adding in that this really wasnt all that important, and how some people who dont know much about Tara wont understand anything about this.