Facebook

Facebook was once the top social networking sight in the entire world just a few years ago. With the ability to post statuses about how you feel, upload pictures, and mark certain times as well as special points in your life that was all recorded onto one profile. Although most people have switched over to Twitter, another social networking sight that prefers that user Tweet often about really anything, some people still stick to Facebook like younger teenagers.

A Boston father of a fourteen year old teenage girl was reached an agreement for his daughter to quit Facebook for the next five months in exchange for paying his daughter $50 in April and the remaining $150 in June. The father gets her password and will be able to change it thus deactivating the account and not permitting his daughter to reactivate it before the contract is up.

I’m a teenage boy and I can even see this is stupid parenting. Children should respect their parents and when a parent makes a decision for you, assume it’s for the best. I’m unsure how it could be negative taking away her Facebook account. If my parents ever told me to delete one of my accounts I’d do it right off the bat because I respect my parents. Some children in America these days apparently do not. It’s saddening. 

The "Harbowl"

Tonight, the 47^th Super Bowl will kick off with an interesting twist between the AFC Champions Baltimore Ravens and the NFC Champions San Francisco 49ers. The head coach of the Ravens and the head coach of the 49ers are brothers. John Harbaugh, the older brother by 15 months, coaches the Ravens while his younger brother Jim Harbaugh coaches the 49ers. This 47^th Super Bowl has been named the “Harbowl”.

John became the head coach of the Ravens back in 2008 after Jason Garrett, my dad’s second cousin and the team’s first choice for the position, turned them down although Jason is now the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. In two of his 5 years as head coach he led the Ravens to three AFC Championship games and lost the first two. This year the time has come when they’ve been able to succeed and get into the Super Bowl.

Jim Harbaugh is in his second year as head coach of the 49ers. He previously coached at Stanford. Unlike John, Jim has experience actually playing in the NFL. He has a quarterback for about 12 years playing for the Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, and ironically the Baltimore Ravens.

This is the first time two brothers have ever faced each other as head coaches in the Super Bowl. The two teams previously met on Thanksgiving Day in 2011 when the Ravens were able to slide past the 49ers. Sibling rivalries are one of the perks that make sports interesting. For example, the Manning brothers Peyton and Eli whenever they face. Or Serena and Venus in professional tennis. It’s also a classis literary idea that was used even back when the Book of Genesis was written with Cain and Able. This game will for sure go down in history as a classic of Older Brother v. Younger Brother. The Harbowl kicks off tonight at 6:30 P.M.