america....are you happy?

I didn't post until now because my Internet kept crashing, not because I was ignoring you, my awesome followers! That my friends will never happen. Ever.

Well, today, how can I skirt around it, the American election. Today, we found out that Barack Obama has become the 44th and (more importantly) the 1st black president of the United States. This in my opinion is a major breakthrough. Out with the old, fuddy duddies of traditional American government and in with the new change.

McCain wasn't going to win and it was obvious to everyone for sometime, especially when Obama came to light. Though nobody had really heard of him until Hilary Clinton dropped out (well, at least I hadn't, you Americans probably had for ages and I was just being ignorant!), his ideals reached out to a lot of people for who the old ways never had. No matter how much he protested, McCain would always be seen as the embodiment of the old regimen and problems that America has had in the past. Obama may not be to really bring about this change (I'm not kidding myself there), but he has a lot more chance than a traditionalist republican!
One of the big successes of Obama's (kind of late) campaign was he made himself internationally known and gathered more support for himself in the younger generations some of which had previously not voted. This was very smart thinking, unlike McCain's choice of Sarah Palin which was extremely stupid after his whole 'Obama's too inexperienced' rant. Palin had never been out of Alaska!
I'm trying really hard not to rant about how awesome Obama is!
Some of you may argue that it doesn't really matter what happens in America for people here in Britain or anywhere else but I think it does for our ongoing relations between the nations (yes, it rhymes!) and his decisions may affect us in future. Everyone I talk to seems to think he's a good thing and my friend (Princess Bala) got me to write DEMOCRAT across her face in body art pen!
Personally, I wish him, and America in general, good luck! I hope things get better for them.

OK, I have to admit, there was another reason I haven't updated for a while.
I have Facebook!
I know what a lot of you are thinking 'We've all had Facebook/Bebo/MySpace/whatever for ages!' But the thing is I've only just got my own e-mail!
Seriously, I didn't have my own laptop/computing device until two months back!
I'm very slow technology wise, we haven't even got any games consoles in our house.
Someone's trying to get me to get Bebo and MySpace now but I don't think I can cope with that much techno babble at once!
So when I logged on to it, lots of people added me who I never really talk to. It was a kind of weird and felt kind of good at the same time! I was really nerdy and felt loved!
Another awesome thing about Facebook is I'm in touch with people I haven't seen in years! That makes all the annoying e-mails you get worth it!
This does actually lead somewhere, before you get all confused and annoyed! My point being that are social networking sites making us less likely to go out and make new friends? Will we all end up glued to computers (and other such things, all you apple nerds!) chatting to people we've never meet, staying inside all day? Or are such sites a good thing? Keeping us in touch with people we'd otherwise never see?

I want to know what you lot think. It really matters to me what your opinions are, it's interesting to find out!)

Ooh, one more nasty brain exercise!)
Thought of the day:
Does the big media coverage of how extremist Muslims blow themselves up give all Muslims a bad name?
It definitely encourages people to think badly of them and the racist remarks I hear support this view. No one seems to think about the fact that Islam is quite a peaceable religion and what they must have experienced to drive them to blow themselves up.

Hmmm...think about that!

P.S. In case you're wondering about the weird reaction thing under the posts now, it's just something I'm experimenting with...