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April 04 2008

Your Facebook Profile Isn't Really "You": - ReadWriteWeb

obiterdicta:

It really is all about positioning, it seems.

Unless you are like me and never invite anyone into your Facebook world if you do not know them in real life. It is bad enough keeping in touch with people we know not to have to contend with random, faceless people we will never meet.

Old-fashioned? Yes. Clutter-free/ feng shui approach to life? Oh, yes. Not up your street? See if I care ;-)

You need to be pretty stupid to believe that you’ll get along with someone else based upon your choice of clothes, shoes, books, movies etc. It’s easy to “build” an online profile, which might be as fake as you are in real life. One of the many reasons why I’m uncomfortable blurring the lines between real life and online friends. It’s not always what you think it is. :-) There were times when I thought that I really like a person, only to be exposed later to some weird thinking on their part and then, sadly realize that I don’t really like him/her THAT much!

I don’t care if people feel that I don’t have many “friends”. It’s always more valuable to add people whom you really know, instead of adding just about anyone you met in some random party or a meeting somewhere…or worse, have not even met.

Bombay had made them more American than Cambridge had, my mother said, something she hadn’t anticipated and didn’t understand. There were remarks concerning your mother’s short hair, her slacks, the Johnnie Walker she and your father had continued to drink after the meal was finished, taking it with them from the dining room to the living room.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, in her short story, Once in a Life Time, that appeared in The New Yorker and is also a part of her collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. I’ve ordered my copy and I can’t wait to read it!
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April 03 2008

On Chatting Etiquette

Why do people feel that it is okay to Buzz!!! on Yahoo messenger? Nothing is more annoying than people clamoring for your attention. In this case, I was chatting with this woman and wasn’t even doing anything else. During the course of the “conversation”, she buzzed me three times! And it’s not like I was replying late. I was replying as soon as I was getting her message.

Even if I don’t reply instantaneously, there is absolutely no reason to Buzz me. Just because I’m signed into Yahoo! doesn’t mean that she should be the sole recipient of my attention.

I find such behavior to be absolutely annoying and it turns me off completely.

Can you name the Elements of the Periodic Table?

sarahcroberts:

I got 18 before I had to give up. I’m a Communications major, I’ll never need to know the elements. Good game to make you feel like a total idiot.

via bg5000

44/118 , with 9 minutes left. Then I gave up.

Disclaimer: I was a law student and now, a Finance major.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
— Lawrence J. Peter

I've picked a college

alexkehr:

I’ve committed to the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Congratulations Alex! :-)

April 02 2008

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How Smart Are You?
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Life is anything but LOL right now for me.

April 01 2008

jaredm:

I just realized that today is a big personal health milestone for me:

Six months without a cigarette!

All true, no fooling. Yay me :)

Congratulations! You deserve a re-blog.

But what does following a lot of people say?

  1. You’re trying to learn more.
  2. You’re trying to meet more people.
  3. You’re trying to be a better listener.
  4. You’re communicating to the world that you’d like to be listened to (golden rule: treat people how you’d like to be treated).
  5. You’re trying to find out about more stuff. More events. More stories.

Now, who would you rather hang out with? A person who only talks and doesn’t listen? Or a person who listens to as many people as he can?

Now, I really don’t care about people who unfollow me anymore. Go ahead. Doesn’t make me feel bad. But the more people I follow, the smarter I get, the more connected I get, the better the experiences I have in life (see previous post). So, that’s my new story. The secret to Twitter is how many people are you listening to, not how many people are listening to you.

Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Scoble, you still manage to spam everyone who’s in your network with your silly tweets. Obviously, quantity over quality of “networking” is your way of getting popular. We all know about your “friends” on Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Flickr, Friendfeed and many other social networking sites.

Indian footie captain refuses to carry Olympic torch

obiterdicta:

Bhaichung Bhutia, a buddhist from the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim, and captain of the Indian football team, refused to carry the Olympic Torch to show his support for the Tibetans and their struggle.

India has notably disallowed protests from Tibetans. So much for democracy and free speech!

I was thinking about this same thing yesterday. I admire Bhaichung Bhutia for taking this stand. And on the other hand, we have Aamir Khan- THE badshah…who seems to be doing anything for publicity. His video, where he talks about his decision of being the torch bearer reeks with boredom and illiteracy. He uses sentences, such as “It’s a great sport! Such an amazing sporting event, that is world’s best sporting event!”…and “This year’s theme is based on Environment preservation. We need to preserve it. I do a lot for it. I’m careful about the quantity of water that I use. You need to be careful. You need to be very aware..” and so on and so forth. And the interviewer says that he’s a true “social activist”.

oh, gmail. you're hilarious.

amyyy:

april fool’s day gmail style.

this is pretty funny.

I remember their last April Fool’s Day Joke- Order print outs of all your emails for FREE! Grandmas and grandpas can finally have fun!

Flirting by Text Messages

A short passage from NY Times Article, that explores the prominent flirting style in India : Flirting by Text Messages. Each text message only costs around 4-5 cents and Indian cell phones companies don’t charge you for incoming text messages (why should we pay if someone wants to tell something to ME? That person should pay! Makes sense). So, it is very economical and gives the average, shy Indian guy the perfect weapon to find “girlfriends”:

“Dating of any kind is minimal in the countryside, where two-thirds of Indians live. In big cities like this one, posh bars and clubs attract a relatively small Westernized elite who date as if in Paris or New York. But for middle-class men like Mr. Chettri, much persuasion is required even to induce a woman to have coffee with you, and that may be as far as it goes.

If a text suitor makes it to the next step, say an invitation to the movies, new challenges arise.

“She will come, but she will come with two, three friends,” said Vaibhav Shingre, 25, a co-worker of Mr. Chettri’s and his wingman of sorts. “You have to specify, ‘Please come alone.’

….

Young Indians, girls especially, are taught not to show any interest in the opposite sex. The prohibition extends to such behaviors as giggling at a man’s jokes. “Jo hansi, voh phansi,” goes one old Hindi staying. (If a woman laughs, she is already in the net.)

Most young, middle-class Indians live with their parents, leaving few opportunities for trips back to “my place.” They often share rooms with siblings into their late 20s, making it hard even to speak privately by telephone. And should they canoodle in public, they risk being found out by ubiquitous uncles and aunts and family friends, who are likely to snitch on them.

Farther east, in Jamshedpur, a steel company town, the desire to text became so fervent at one all-women’s college that students began renting burqas from Muslim shopkeepers, according to a local news report. From under the folds, the women typed amorously to boyfriends and arranged secret trysts off campus.

Dr. Prakash Kothari, India’s best-known sexologist, said some clients had begun approaching him with problems about texting. “They say, ‘Hey, Doc, I’m receiving these SMS’s day in and day out. How should I respond?’ ” he said.

An American woman’s body had became attached to her boyfriend’s toilet after she sat on it for two years, police in Kansas said.

Mr McFarren told investigators that he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

And her reply would be, ‘Maybe tomorrow’, Mr Whipple said. According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom.

Woman stuck after two years on toilet - Telegraph

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking, according to a research. Cell phones have been linked to certain types of tumors and their effect will become clearer in the next decade or so. Time to stop buying those iPhones, no?

I have never been a fan of cell phones. Thank God.

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vasta:

Hope your April 1st goes better than this guy’s day.

March 31 2008

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