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Koobecaf: by Whitney Riedell
Koobecaf Assignment MWF 8:30-9:20 Katie Hines -TA Anthropologists of today have studied nearly every culture on the face of the planet and how all of the diverse people in these cultures behave. They have seen nearly every behavior from what they consider “normal” to the not-so-normal. But what has stunned these anthropologists of today has been the very unusual ritual of the American culture and their obsession with technology. Nearly every American family owns at least one modern technological device called the retupmoc. With this device, Americans can access millions upon millions of pieces of information within just a few minutes by means of the tenretni. Now, tenretni is very strange in itself because it is impossible for anybody to see or touch it. It seems to be just floating in space but is literally all around people. Some other cultures tend to be leery of this “thing” always surrounding them wherever they go, but surprisingly Americans seem to not mind it, and, in fact, give it no thought what-so-ever. So what kinds of information can these Americans access using the tenretni one might ask? Well, anthropologists have been studying this for quite some time now and have noticed a pattern of the Americans constantly accessing a site called Koobecaf. On Koobecaf, one has access to all kinds of information about people from all over the world, but they must first become a member of this site. By doing so, one must have what they call an emanresu and drowssap. Once they have logged-on to the site they will first see the homepage which displays the swen deef and contains all kinds of information about what others have recently done on Koobecaf. From there they can view their eliforp, sdneirf, or even their xobni. On their eliforp, they can post all kinds of personal information such as their sex, birthday, relationship status, religious views and political views. They can also post such things as their contact information, including home address and telephone number. Now some may think that not only is this Koobecaf thing weird but also it can be very dangerous by posting contact information with anybody having access to it. This brings me to my next point. With Koobecaf, a person has the option to have their information private with only their sdneirf seeing it. If they so choose to put this privacy setting on, then the owner of that profile must accept their sdneirf request in order for that person to access their information. This makes the site safer for everyone. Next, like I said before, they can view their xobni. In their xobni, it shows messages written by their sdneirf that nobody else can view besides that member of Koobecaf. Another unusual characteristic of Koobecaf is a thing called “eht llaw.” Every member has one of these on their eliforp and it is used to write little messages to their sdneirf. This differs from the xobni because eht llaw is available for every one of their sdneirf to see, whereas the xobni is private. While I was studying this whole Koobecaf thing, I came to love the serutcip application. By this, one can upload many serutcip of anything they so choose and share them with all of their sdneirf. This is a good way to get to know someone on Koobecaf without ever even meeting them face-to-face. Serutcip give insight into a person’s interests and hobbies, which obviously are a big part of personality. Along with the serutcip application, there are many more applications that can be added by the user. As one can see, Koobecaf is still an unknown phenomenon to many people from outside cultures. It is hard to understand how Americans have become so obsessed with this thing that they cannot see or feel, yet it has happened and is beginning to spread into other cultures as well. It is hard to believe how differently each culture is in our world today, but nonetheless every culture is being affected in its own way by modern technology.
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