Insomniacs, the Phantoms of the Internet 234
theodp writes "Ever since she was a toddler, freelance writer Lily Burana has been a Stay Up Late kind of girl. When her kindergarten teacher asked students 'What time do you go to bed?,' young Lily felt compelled to lie rather than rat out her own mother by saying, 'Oh, between midnight and 1 a.m.' She still suffers from insomnia, but has discovered that Facebook is the Promised Land for the awake and alone. She finds comfort in the company of others who, like her, live counter to the conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world."
So? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Anybody here? (Score:5, Insightful)
I would guess a lot of slashdotters fall in to this category or at least at some point have. But the difference is that I enjoy the quiet and alone time during night and hence would stay away from sites like Facebook. You get insane amount of work done during night time - there's no people chitchatting all the time nor can you really go out somewhere so you don't get lazy. It does however lead to weird sleeping patterns, but as long as you don't need to go anywhere in the morning it doesn't really matter anymore.
"insomnia" is probably the wrong word (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:anyone know of an evolutionary purpose to owl-i (Score:4, Insightful)
Assuming that everything genetic can be explained as having an evolutionary purpose, does anyone know of an evolutionary purpose to a large group of people having a different schedule than everyone else?
Maybe they are suppose to be the stronger of the genetic pool and replace the weaker day walkers?
Re:Anybody here? (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't use facebook. I am up late a lot nd a bit of an insomniac
Still I have classes in the am.
need to gotol bed, but duno if I will
Or you could move to a city that never sleeps. (Score:2, Insightful)
Insomniacs? WTF idiot journalist (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:anyone know of an evolutionary purpose to owl-i (Score:3, Insightful)
IANAD, but your example of the appendix is not a clear cut case. How most of the human body actually functions on a microbial level is not understood. The appendix could serve a function that is perhaps redundant, but helpful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiform_appendix#Possible_secondary_functions [wikipedia.org]
Re:Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is the right word (Score:3, Insightful)
Calling it a disease is wrong. Saying it can be cured is like trying to bleach a black man white or beating a gay man with officially approved porn.
Re:anyone know of an evolutionary purpose to owl-i (Score:1, Insightful)
Not a purpose . . . that's not why evolution happens. Evolution happens because a particular change doesn't get the organism killed, not because it has some intended purpose for the change.