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Jan

As I looked up USB on Google images I came across an interesting discovery and was introduced to the new world of USB. Apparently the food world of USB is pretty big. USB is short for Universal Serial Bus and is also known as a flash drive or jump drive. USB’s have become very popular in every day use, whether it is used for transporting work files or personal files. Some USBs are simply used as software backups. However, not only memory space can be varied. Throughout the last several years the world of flash drive has gotten extremely creative.

While I laughed and scrolled down, I could not help thinking why someone would have so many USBs if they were not simply collecting them. The cheapest USBs sell for around five dollars and the price goes up based on storage space. The creative 2GB post-it USB costs a total of $49.99, while an ordinary 2GB USB costs about $15.00. There is of course a price for creativity, but that is over a 300% price difference. For the price of creativity a person could get three USBs and still have some cash left over. Overall, it sounds too pricey to be a collection item. I know that if I had one of these crazy USBs I would use it, rather than display it as decoration.

Some of the USB drives seemed a bit unpractical, like the over sized bagel. However, others were hysterical. It is amazing how many different USBs there are. There was a collection of diamond jewelry USBs, toy USBs, and an endless collection of foodstuff USBs. The increasing number of food revolved USBs reminded me of America and China’s increasing obesity problems. Is food in reality an obsession? Is it a hobby? Could and obsession for food ever be as great as an obsession with a TV show? The other USBs reflected an aspect of a persons life and what they like. For example, the Lego piece USB might belong to someone who likes Legos. The grenade/army USB might belong to a soldier or someone very found of action war movies and guns. I personally hope that food is not a hobby, but let me know how you feel on the issue.