Have you heard of this crazy thing called Koobecaf? I haven’t until I sat down at a computer and looked at this fascination that the Naciremas call Koobecaf. I saw many strange things that I have never seen before, such as sutats and sdneirf. I did some research to find out what this Koobecaf was and what it means to the Naciremas.
I started out on this quest by looking over the Koobecaf website which I found on the Internet. I was determined to find out what this crazy and odd ritual was. There was this thing they called sutats that would expose what people were doing and how they felt. I was shocked to see such a spy- type of device on this website. I didn’t understand why they would want to share their thoughts and feelings. However, as I went on with my research I saw that the object they called sutats was their friendly way of telling people what they were doing, feeling or thinking.
The more I studied this the more I noticed that some of the Naciremas would change their sutats quite often while others never changed it at all or changed it very little. I began to see that it was their way of communicating with people without having to talk to someone directly. I found out the reason they wanted to let people know their thoughts was because it was a way to express their own personality for everyone to see, to show everyone how they felt and to be noticed. It wasn’t just about being noticed; it was more about having people notice them while being themselves. It was a way of expressing who they are without having to feel scared or pressure to be someone else. However, not all Naciremas like to express what they are doing or feeling because they think that they are sharing too much. They feel almost as it’s an invasion of their privacy and they don’t feel as confident to open up or they just don’t feel like taking the time to change their sutats.
Koobecaf can be used as a way to show an individual’s personality. One of the things I found was that each person has their own sdneirf. At first I found this odd. Nevertheless, I found that these sdneirf were people that they were close to and some people they really weren’t that close to. Some even had enemies as their sdneirf. As I looked into it I saw that sdneirf has a different meaning to some people. Some Naciremas don’t even care if it is their worst enemy; they would have them as their sdneirf anyway. I began to see that it was just a big way of communicating but also could be used as an acceptable way of spying on people, such as their ememies.
Some Naciremas have a lot of sdneirf and others didn’t have as many. To some people the more sdneirf you have the better you look, but not all Naciremas are like that. Several Naciremas use Koobecaf as a way of making sdneirf and getting to know people. I also noticed that lots of Naciremas used it as a way to communicate with sdneirf that live in places far from where they are, as a way of staying in touch.
Since doing my investigation I learned so much about the strange and macigial world of Koobecaf. I saw that it affects the Nacriemas every day. I noticed how they relied on it because it is used as a huge communication source. This made talking to someone in person or over the phone almost obsolete. I started to understand what sutats was and what their sdneirf meant to them. Koobecaf is used mainly as a big way of expressing who they really are. In that case everyone tries to makes their Koobecaf unique from everyone else’s. Now how unique is that?
Written by Joee Calderon 9-17-08