wikipedia

so i love wikipedia, its pretty freaking awesome.
i learned that Hot could mean:
Hot can have several meanings:
Look up Hot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

* Relatively high temperature. See also heat conduction.
* Can describe spicy food.
* Jargon used to describe radioactivity. "Be careful, the room is hot".
* Hot is also the name of a 1970s pop music group whose best-known song is "Angel In Your Arms".
* In some areas of the United States, it is another name for a hot dog.
* Slang adjective describing something that has been stolen.
* Slang adjective describing something or someone that is sexually attractive and/or provocative (ie. Josh is hot).
* Slang synonym for "impressive", "great", "cool", or "excellent". The usage of the word in this manner is notably used by Paris Hilton as a catch phrase: "That's hot!".
* Hot is an acronym for Heal over Time. (antonym: damage over time)
so think about that next time you call some one hot....

and that apparently no one can get together on what exactly a young adult is:

The term "Young adult", when used in different contexts, can refer to slightly different age groups:

* In psychology, people of the age 20 to 40 are considered Young adults.

* In the marketing of literature, books for Young adults are roughly targeted for ages 12 to 18.

* In health and human development, young adulthood is considered to be the stage between adolescence and adulthood, roughly ages 15 to 24.

* In popular usage, "young adult" is sometimes simply a euphemism for adolescent.

thats pretty dissappointing. apparently the generations before us managed to create a new section of development, but never bothered to figure out what it was... *gosh*

there is also what david brooks said in his article called "bondage and bonding online" its about myspace and facebook and other stuff... its not exactly a positive image he sets forward. apparently we are all socially inept so we turn to the internet for help. grrrr.

" Some sociologists worry that we're bowling alone, but these sites (MySpace has 20 million visitors a month) are all about community. They're commonly used by people in the new stage of life that's been created over the past few decades. They are in their early to mid-20's; they're out of school but have no expectation they should marry soon. They're highly mobile, half-teen/half-adult, looking for a life plan and in between the formal networks of school, career and family.

So they bond online with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The Web pages they create are part dorm-room wall, part bulletin board, part young person's society page. They post photos of favorite celebrities, dirty postcards and music videos. And there are tons of chug-and-grins: photos of the gang gripping beers at a bar, photos of the tribe chugging vodka on the beach, photos of the posse doing shots at an apartment. Scroll down the page and there are people falling over each other, beaming and mugging for the camera phone."

perhaps we should consider equipping young people with more skills that they will need for life, as opposed to force feeding them facts that they barf up on standardized tests without ever using their brains once... huh? huh? huh?