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IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM?!

By Lilly Nelson in featured, Life 18 Comments


Is she really going out with him is a great song, but how often do you hear the same lament? “Everyone I like only likes jerks.” “I’m smart and funny. Why doesn’t anyone want to be with me?” “Why is she with him?” How often have you heard or said that yourself?

The world of dating has changed significantly from your Mom and Dad’s apple pie Norman Rockwell scene. No longer do people regularly go steady through High School to marry their sweetheart after college. In fact the average person gets married at 26, followed two years later by a divorce. With the plight of older women and men fighting to meet Mr or Miss Right before biology takes over, there is an increasing amount of pressure on the single today.

With that in mind, let’s broach the subject of those folks who are nice and perpetually single. You know the type. That sweet friend of yours who seems to always be single no matter how desirable they may be. That nice guy who brings flowers to a first date and opens all doors. That sweet funny girl who lost her most recent boyfriend. We love them, but only as friends, and we want to see them happy. Or maybe that sweet funny person is you.

The “Nice Guy”

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Social Media Policies When You Die

By William Eve in featured, Online 29 Comments


Death not only affects our friends and family members anymore. When someone dies, there are literally hundreds and sometimes thousands of people – wondering – where did that person go? Posts go unwritten and shared, but that person keeps showing up in our feeds, on our friends list and even when we go to their profile. Why? Well, because most likely that person died, and their profile is still sitting in cyberspace, very much still alive. What happens to the Social Media Policies when you die?

The Reasoner covered this topic in 2009 in the form of asking: If you die, what will happen to your online accounts?

New rules have been put in place, recently – by most of the social media sites to modify this uncomfortable situation. I mean, imagine how family members feel every time they log into Facebook or Twitter and see their deceased relatives profiles or tweets over and over, knowing this person they loved, has moved on.

This is what prompted some of the most popular media sites to take action. Even though a huge percentage of Facebook users profiles are not alive – most offer alternatives to try to dissuade this painful situation.

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Stop Hiding from People if you Want Happiness

By Bes Zain in featured, Life 31 Comments


Stop hiding from people if you want a happier life and if you want happiness.

There is no other way to emphasize something as important as this without stating it directly. Regardless of your goals, wants or needs, this one major negative element in your life will ultimately affect everything else in your life negatively.

In fact, this major element of hiding from people in your life, is what affects your daily life, all your actions, and your future.

We prefer hiding from people. We do it daily. We accept it as being so normal that we do not even think about its existence. We just react to it as if we had a life dedicated to hiding from others. This fear that makes us hide from others, for any reason, is actually making us fail at almost every great opportunity that comes our way. For every person we claim we like hanging out with, there are probably 2 people out there we hide from.

Phone, emails, txts, in person, on the road, online, people around us, etc: we like hiding for various reasons wherever we are. We hide from bill collectors, people who honk at us, people we find annoying, people who forward us annoying emails, other students who may make fun of us, kids who may bully us at parties, and many other groups of people. When we hide from others, everything we do in life revolves around the fact that we’re afraid. How can our life be productive, minimalistic, or even happy when it is based around fear?

Such fear ensures that all your goals, dreams and efforts in life are always inferior to what they could be.

While we may not be able to control the outcome of an uncomfortable situation, we can definitely change the way we react to people related to the situations in question.

Chill. Relax.

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Is Republic Wireless Really Unlimited?

By Bes Zain in featured, Online 11 Comments


Republic Wireless just opened up their $19 / month unlimited minutes, unlimited text and unlimited data plan. The social media world has been clogged with thousands of posts about this for the last 2 weeks. The idea is very promising: offering unlimited minutes so you can call anyone or receive phone calls, unlimited outgoing and incoming text messages, and unlimited online browsing and data usage, and all for only $19 a month without any contract. The biggest and most important part of the news is the way this will work: over wi-fi networks.

The idea is not completely new. Vonage tried and is continuing to try something similar: offering a home phone service all via your home internet connection. Republic Wireless takes that to the next level: allowing you to carry a cell phone anywhere you want and connect primarily through wi-fi networks to make your calls, send and receive txts, and consume as much data as you wish. Republic Wireless says that everything is offers is unlimited, and there is no limit on anything.

Now that the service and the details are official out, it is time to ask: Is Republic Wireless really unlimited?

The Catch – Limited Cellular Usage

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Reasons Why NOW is the Time to Go to College

By Brandy Olson in featured, Reviews 86 Comments


There’s been a lot of talk about the perpetual state of the unemployment rate in this country. When that mixes with the record level of college enrollment seen in the United States, including online programs such as online accounting degree and business degree programs, the resulting thought can be a little bit more than intimidating. But it’s abundantly clear that when jobs do return, they will almost exclusively return for the college educated. It’s come down to a choice between almost certain defeat and an uphill battle. Statistics don’t lie: it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about business degrees, accounting degrees, or even English degrees, having a diploma is guaranteed to significantly improve your chances of getting a job.

Here are some additional reasons why now is absolutely the time to get yourself enrolled in a four year college or graduate program:

FINANCIAL AID HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER AND MORE SECURE

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How many Real Offline Friends do You Really Have?

By Bes Zain in featured, Life 45 Comments


Everyone has online friends. Or almost everyone. These days the craze is over at Google+. You or at least one of your online “friends” is searching for a Google+ invite this very moment. Or they are already on Google+ adding others right now. Regardless, the craze is to find a good new social network and to start adding people. It seems the more people you have on your “friends” list online, the more popular or important you seem online, even if you never, ever interact with your online “friends” from your “friends” list.

This trend started from MySpace and Xanga probably, or even before, carried onto Twitter and Facebook, and now it lives in Google+ also. It will keep on going, since people want more “friends” online. As long as having “friends” makes you more popular than having no audience online, you will want more “friends.” (more…)

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Should You ALWAYS Tip Waiters?

By Bes Zain in featured, Life 69 Comments


I can say with 100% certainty that you ate something in the last 24 hours. Unless you’re starving somewhere, chances are you eat 2 or 3 times a day. We cook at home and we go out to eat. Going to a restaurant to eat, while fulfilling our craving to survive, is like an enjoyable experience for us, like a joy ride. And in that joy ride, surprisingly, we usually have come to pay more attention to the people who bring the food than the food itself.

If you get a happy, polite waiter, you will most probably consider your dining experience a good one. Get an impolite waiter or someone who ignores you, and you may consider your trip a waste of time and money, even if the food was good. Not only that, but at the end of every such experience, you come face to face with the bill that creates the most difficult question for you.

“How much should I leave as a tip for this waiter?” (more…)

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Why Do [or Don't] You Celebrate 4th of July?

By Bes Zain in featured, Life 17 Comments


4th of July is USA’s Independence Day, when America called and considered itself a free nation. It probably can’t get much simpler than that in terms of the definition. Celebrating Independence Day is now a tradition where people in America [or other countries for their Independence Day] get together for parties, food barbecue or for fireworks to mark the anniversary of becoming a separate country. For millions of people, it is as important or sometimes even more important than any religious event.

Today, millions of people in America will either be setting off fireworks themselves or watching others do it. It’s a trend that many call “a family tradition.” This trend is so popular that many people define their “patriotism” by it. For such people, you’re not an American if you don’t celebrate Independence Day. At the same time, there is a growing number of people who do not celebrate Independence Day. They have their own reasons, also listed below.

To get a solid idea of why you celebrate or don’t celebrate Independence Day, let’s go through 5 reasons why others do and don’t celebrate it.

5 Famous Reasons We Celebrate 4th of July

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Live Case Study: 300k Page Job Turnkey Website

By Bes Zain in featured, Online 5 Comments


Face it. Each and everyone of us works hard or easy to try and make money. Some people rely on others to make money while trying to spend less, and some people rely on their work to make money while trying to spend more. Regardless of what you are doing, as long as it does not hurt others and is legal, whatever you do is good if it makes money.

The Reasoner and Social Improve are already profitable blogs for me. In fact, soon they’ll replace everything else for me in terms of becoming the biggest and main sources of income. I’m thinking of releasing a monthly income report for each site; we’ll see. In the meantime, I’m trying several different things just to experiment, for fun and to see what’s true and what’s not.

Local Hospital Jobs - Live Case Study

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Are Pets Our Slaves?

By Bes Zain in featured, General 25 Comments


I have a “pet” cat. I call him my cat friend Whisper. He lives with us in our home. He runs around the house, eats awesome cat food, get treats almost every day, and gets to sleep on top of us or lay in our path at any time. In addition to all of that, he is also a slave. He is not allowed to run away. He cannot do things we don’t want him to do. He cannot scratch the carpet. He has to eat when we feed him and what we get him. He basically lives a life that his human friends, or “owners”, force him to. Like any other slave in this world.

This is of course in addition to the fact that all “pet owners” are forced, legally, to have their pet reproductive organs removed or rewired so that the animals in question will not breed. We cry if such experiments happened to any human ethnic group, but doing it to animals? It’s all fine. No one cares. Destroy his body parts! We’ll call it neutering. Remove her body parts! We’ll call it spaying. It’s all right; because he and she is just a cat, a dog or some other animal. And in addition to making sure “it” cannot reproduce as it wishes, we also have our societies built to enslave such animals into being our slaves. Whisper, unfortunately, was already neutered and was available for “sale” at PetSmart.

Of course, since “slavery” is considered bad and having a “slave” horrendous, we call them “pets” now. And we simply have “pets” which are non-human animals. What an awesomely disgusting replacement.

Pets locked up in our homes

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