First Planking Now Owling.....

To whoever has said that the new generations lacks creativity, than s/he has never seen what they have been coming out with.  Mind you, it's not as if with these creative outbreaks they are anything remotely important or lifesaving but it's creative nonetheless, nobody can say the contrary.  But what am I referring to?  As the title clearly states, I am obviously referring to these new trends of Planking and Owling which have gone round the globe in no time.  It is interesting really how both these activities started off somewhere, nobody really knows where, no one can actually tell, but in a matter seconds (not literally, but almost) people, in every part of the world started following these trends, posting photos online.  The Media was also highly involved in both these phenomenon, and if you were someone who didn't have any idea what these were, people tend to give you that look as if saying...YOU LIVE ON THIS PLANET OR WHAT???

But, just in case, there is someone out there who has still no idea on what I am talking about, here is a brief description of what these two trends are:

PLANKING - The lying down game or planking is an activity consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. The hands must touch the sides of the body and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the Internet is an integral part of the game. Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play. The location should also be as public as possible, and as many people as possible should be involved. The term planking is described as the practice of lying down flat with arms to the side, to mimic a wooden plank. Unfortunately or fortunately, that's up to you to decide, this trend died as quickly as it started and it has been replaced by owling.

OWLING -  Owling, as the Washington Post explains, is the act of taking a picture while crouching in an owl-like posture. Also, presumably, while in a strange location.

Are these things useful? Well I don't think they are. Why do they do them? Well in their minds I think these are things they think it's worth spending time doing. It is definitely not something I would spend my time on. My opinion, time is too special to waste on such activities. What I do think it is interest though, is the amount of people who actually do and follow these trends and the fast means by which they spread.  These both make it easier to understand the Maltese term - L-ezempju jkaxkar - (it's very easy to follow the examples of others).  It would be nice if this also happens with more important things as well.