"Love The Way You Lie" - Eminem featuring Rihanna

In our modern society there are several provacative topics in media that get a lot of attention and popularity for talking about things that are taboo.  One such taboo topic is domestic abuse.  In one of his latest songs called "Love The Way You Lie", rapper Eminem goes in depth into his story of domestic abuse with his significant other  This song is vivid and fully depicts the anger, frustration, and emotion that Eminem has for the topic.  Eventhough we all know that domestic abuse happens it is not something that is usually discussed in public or intentionally brought to the light.  In this case, Eminem not only brings it to the light, but he spends three whole verses reiterating the same story with more passion and anger than he did the verse before and ends with the bone-chilling line "And if she ever tries to leave again I'll tie her to the bed and set this house on fire!"  This is a song that makes light of domestic abuse, and arson, but is one of the most popular songs due to the fact that it has a good flow and Rihanna's beautiful voice on the chorus.  It probably was not in my generation, but I'm pretty sure there was once a time where something like this was not tolerated.  Oh how times have changed.

The Displacement of AIM

Throughout our generation it seems that many forms of social media have come and gone.  Sconex was kicked to the curb after the introduction of MySpace, and MySpace met its demise at the hands of Facebook, and even Facebook is currently battling Twitter, the current fastest growing social media, for the position of "#1 Internet Social Media". Before all of these, however, was AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM.  This was an istant messaging program by AOL that provided users with immediate communication when online.  AIM was the most popular social networking media for my peers and I from elementary to highschool.  It even survived well into the Facebook age, until Facebook developed FB Chat that is.  Facebook chat is basically instant messaging on the facebook profile that can get in contact with any of your Facebook Friends when they are online.  Since Facebook adopted this upgrade, the user rate of AIM has dwindled closer and closer to "non-existant".  I am probably one of the very few that still have the AIM application on my phone, a T-Mobile Sidekick LX, and that is only because I am very nostalgic and try to cling to the remnants of my childhood.  If only a lot more people felt the way I did AIM would be doing a lot better.