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Why Do You Blog?

23 Jul

Why Do You Blog?

Do you know the exact reason you blog?

Blogging. It is something that millions of people start doing every month. It is also something that millions of people stop doing every month because of failing at it. While there are many different understandings and beliefs of what a blog is, it seems that the end result of all the attention blogging gets has ensured that for many people blog means concept of regularly posted messages.

You may be blogging on your own domain name, or you may have a blog on MySpace. You may be blogging on Facebook via Facebook Notes without actually realizing it. Chances are if you go online regularly, you may have figured out a way or two on how you can blog, and you may have already tried it too. In order to be successful or get better at blogging, you may have to realize why you blog.

In the end, as with many other reasons, the sole reason without which you may not be blogging is worth finding out so that you can really know why your blog exists.

10 Popular Reasons You Blog

Why Next Day Delivery is Usually a Scam!

13 Jul

Why Next Day Delivery May Be a Scam

Is your next Next Day Delivery purchase going to arrive late?

Amazon Prime is considered to be the service that made faster shipping a very popular choice for millions of online shoppers in the last 5 years. You basically pay a single yearly fee and upgrade the shipping of as many purchases as you wish to two day delivery shipping, meaning your item arrives at your doorsteps within two business days. Even before Amazon Prime, thousands of famous websites offered faster shipping options that allowed customers to reduce the time they waited for their packages to arrive. While we all continue to ponder over whether we can wait a day or two for something to arrive in the mail, we also are realizing that the fastest shipping option on millions of websites, the Next Day Delivery, is usually a scam. Next Day Delivery itself is a good idea, though it becomes a scam when a business avoids telling you clearly about the restrictions and requirements of such a shipping option.

The entire idea of Next Day Delivery implies that your item will arrive the next day. Even if we consider the fact that the shipping truck may have a flat tire or a strike with all delivery people taking a day off to walk around with sticks, choosing the next day delivery deserves a lot of care because of one single thing: your satisfaction. Many times, you choose faster shipping so that you can start experiencing something better. The same way you try to make sure you spend a lot of quality time with a new purchase with fewer distractions, you can try to ensure that any shipping problems or disappointments do not ruin the excitement that you are building for something you purchased.

Following are 3 major reasons majority of the online and offline next day delivery options for the item you are about to buy are a scam. Your item always comes 2 to 3 days late in such cases.

3 Reasons Next Day Delivery Can be a Scam!

Why Are You on Facebook?

11 Jul

Why Are You on Facebook?

Do you know the sole reason you are on Facebook?

Facebook is something that you probably know about already. A social networking site built originally for students and now available to almost anyone, Facebook is a name that makes everyone realize the new generation of online trends that we are already immersing ourselves into. Facebook is so popular, chances are you feel confused if someone says they are not on Facebook. “How can someone be successful or happy if they’re not on Facebook?“, you ask yourself in such situations. What you may not be asking yourself ever is one of the elemental questions for your interest in the online world: “Why am I on Facebook?

There are probably several different reasons you think you are on Facebook. There is probably, however, one or very few sole reasons you may be on Facebook. Those reasons are so fundamental that without the existence of such reasons, you may not be on Facebook at all. The same way you may have a car for the sole reasons of carrying yourself and things over long distances with ease, you may be on Facebook for some very odd or simple reason that you may not have thought of yet. The reason exists, but you may not have paid much attention to it. Realizing such a reason will actually let you know what kind of a person you are and why Facebook fills a void in your life that other alternatives like Twitter, MySpace or your offline life may not be able to.

So why are you on Facebook? Let us quickly see 10 random and popular reasons millions of people are on Facebook every hour of the day.

10 Random Reasons You Are on Facebook

Planning Whether or Not to Advertise

23 Jun

Should you advertise on your blog?

Should you advertise on your blog?

If you are on Facebook, you may already realize what it means to get messages from strangers on it asking you to visit their sites. I get almost 20 or so messages on Facebook daily from different people asking me to visit their website, blog or to buy something from them. Majority of such sites seem to have advertisements slapped onto them without proper planning. Such sites exist solely to make money by writing a few things and expecting any surrounding ads to sell.

In today’s world, where blogs are created not by the minute but by the second, it’s hard to come up with a topic that a blog, or a site, should focus upon. Even harder is the task of making a plan as to whether the site in question will make money, or if it will simply provide content free of charge and with no advertisements whatsoever. Ads can help bloggers, though the readers may suffer and not visit an ad-ridden blog anymore.

Today I’m going to talk about making a simple, but important, plan of whether or not you should have any advertisements on your site.

Should you advertise on your site?

Are blogs nothing more than regularly posted messages?

22 Jun

Blog - what is it?

Blog - is it just regularly updated content?

The idea of what a blog really is has changed greatly in the last few years. The debate of what defines a blog will probably continue forever among several circles, the same way many people have been debating for a long time about what constitutes a good writing for a blog. One of the things I notice on many sites is that any kind of regularly posted and updated writing is considered a blog by those sites.

Either fewer people are recognizing the difference between a commercial advertisement and a blog, or the idea of blogging has morphed into being all about regular content. Blogging used to be about personal opinions and original thought, and now we have those mixed with marketing, writing rules, product placements and advertisements. Is Spoken-for by Valerie a real blog with personal opinions and daily journals, or is the collection of Microsoft Windows Blogs what defines the concept of blogging together with others? Is it the passion for Kit Kat by Jen Ken that tells us what a blog really should be, or is it the Amazon Associates Blog that shows how blogs exist to help you and me make money?

Is “blog” just a way to post regular messages?

10 Reasons People Hate You On Facebook

17 Jun

The Reasoner: 10 Reasons People Hate You On Facebook

Do People Hate You On Facebook?

Facebook is considered the most popular and widely used social networking site in today’s world. The closest competitors, Twitter and MySpace, both have already drawn a lot of criticism because of the annoying things people can do on those two networks. People get criticized a lot for tweeting too much on Twitter, and people get blocked on MySpace for having backgrounds that give other people seizures and vision problems. Facebook is no different when it comes to getting people hated for their annoying habits.

With anything that becomes popular with the mainstream communities comes the chance of a lifetime: make people hate you! Like email, Facebook can be used properly and Facebook can be abused in order to gain something. Some people abuse other Facebook users by spamming them with money-making program links and messages, while others abuse their contacts through inappropriate tags. In the end, you can easily annoy other people and make them hate you by doing some specific things.

So today, let us go through the Facebook journey of losing your face among your Facebook friends and contacts. You and I are going to explore the 10 reasons, or ways, you make people hate you on Facebook.

10 Reasons You Are Hated On Facebook

Google Voice Invites For You

5 Nov

Google VoiceHere it is again. Another Google service invite for you at The Reasoner. Today I want you to try Google Voice.

The next service Google wishes to use to try and revolutionize your existing home and cell phone calls and text messages. If you are wondering what Google Voice is, you can refer to Google Voice Help to find out more.

I have a couple of Google Voice invites available. If you need a Google Voice invite, please leave a comment below. Your comment requires a valid e-mail address, so I will use that e-mail address to send you a Google Voice invite. It may take some time for everyone to get an invite, depending on how many invite requests I get and how many new Google Voice invites I get from Google in my invites bank.

The invites are completely free. If you wish, feel free to please make a donation, or donate your house, car, or something else. I do not accept squirrels as donations, by the way.

Enjoy! And remember, please call responsibly. :)

Why are you not allowed to delete all of your online accounts?

6 Oct

Delete keyYou see them everywhere. They tell you to perform an action. They tell you to associate yourself with a certain brand name in order to get benefits. These things are signs, signs of different kinds telling you to create accounts and memberships on different websites so that you can be able to post comments and view private content. Whether they are images with the words “Sign up!” or written words saying “Create a free account“, the signs to entice you into signing up are everywhere.

What many of such signs and websites forget to tell you is that once you open an account, it may be impossible to ever close and delete your account and any private information from such sites. Today we ponder over the question: Why do many websites and online services not allow you to close and delete your account?

Easy to create your online account. Impossible to delete it?

Should Employers and Interviewers Check Your MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, And Other Social Profiles?

25 Aug

Spying on Myspace users? (by Lorri37)Today and tonight, millions of people across the world will be getting ready for a job interview tomorrow. You yourself may be thinking of your next job, or thinking of your performance at your existing place of work. At the same time, you may probably be wondering as to how a future interviewer, employer, or an existing employer may view your job integrity based on how you act outside of work. In today’s world, where the online activities seems to be slowly getting more attention than life itself in several circles, many people say that it is important for you to realize how your online activities can hurt your existing or future job opportunities. I want to ask you if you think employers and interviewers should pay any attention to your online social profiles which reside outside of your work.

Today I ask a very important question that applies directly to you: Should employers and interviewers look at your MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and other social online profiles in order to judge your work and related performance and integrity?

Poll for you and your future and existing job:

      »   Should employers check your Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking accounts when evaluating your working abilities?

  •   >   Yes. (32 % votes)
  •   >   No. (49 % votes)
  •   >   It depends. (14 % votes)
  •   >   What are social networking accounts? 0_0 (1 % votes)
  •   >   I can have a job? (4 % votes)

If you die, what will happen to your online accounts?

12 Aug

Dead duckieIf you disappear from the public view in the offline world, people may notice. Those that want to know where you are, or how you are, may call you or visit your home in person. In the online world, however, unless you have listed your offline contact information, the only way to contact you is through the online world.

What would happen if you died, and the online people had no other information about your existence other than your online accounts? If you died, would anyone online know that you simply stopped breathing, or would people assume that you simply decided to spend more time offline? What will happen to your online accounts after your death?

Noticing your offline disappearance online

Dying in the offline world can instantly mean that you would not be logging into any of your online accounts, unless your computer is already logged in and someone else starts using your computer. If it is your tendency, and habit, to be offline for many days, people online may not notice your absence until it has been a bit longer than usual amount of time, like weeks or months.

Question: Are You A Tourist Online?

20 Jul

A tourist looking at a mapLately, I seem to have been spending more time hopping around the Bay Area than I do in the city I live in, including my home. Because of this, I sometimes feel like a tourist in my own home, wondering if I have to turn on the kitchen light before I open the fridge, or if I have to put my shoes on before I pick up my keys. I wonder if I am a tourist in my own home sometimes, or if I am becoming comfortable with it for the first time. This makes me wonder about the idea of feeling like an outsider, like a tourist, in the online world.

Today’s question is a very interesting one, specially and hopefully if you also look at the online world as being an individual segment, or a box, in your offline life. Do you sometimes feel like a tourist when you are online? Do some websites, programs or online services make you feel like you are a tourist who is only visiting? Do you act like a tourist or a local in the online world when it comes to different topics?

Thought: You’re stupid, or do you know Stupid Online People?

28 Jun

It probably happens to you every single day. Random online people add you left and right, wanting to show off to the rest of the world that they know you. You probably also add such online people, wanting to show the world that you have a lot of online contacts. While having a lot of online contacts feels very good, you sometimes pay a very strange price to be able to feel that good: the price of knowing Stupid Online People, SONP. Such a price usually offsets the good feeling, and can also overshadow it. Today, my thoughts are revolving around the concept of knowing Stupid Online People, and how such knowledge of the existence of such contactship affect our lives.

Among many other reasons, there are good, weird and bad reasons to meet people online. Today, I would like to think and focus on the idea of running into stupid people online and how running into the stupidly bad type of people, can be analyzed or thought about. In this article, I am focusing mainly on the stupid bad and ewwy people, and not the good, weird, or other types of online people.

Why we should finally listen to those dirty hippies

12 May

1. There is nothing wrong w/ hippies people. Hygiene, some of you say, but dogs would probably say YOU smell pretty bad.

2. I know a hippie, his name is Stele. Stele wouldn’t hurt a fly. Stele actually kinda wants to save the earth, and what the HELL is wrong w/ that ?! Stele has a couple of websites that I’m a big fan of. . . I being Emily Dawn Stine or @emilydstine @emmyappleseed if you DIG twitter…. the first is HTTP://ECOFX.ORG this site measures your carbon FOOTPRINT. . . one pair of flipflops at a time.

3. Another site is http://xoearth.org which congratulates you for being a conservationist by asking you to proudly wear the brand “XO” on your arm or hand. IT’S THE PEACE SIGN FOR THE ECOCITIZEN. It’s a statement of yea so I use a waterbottle instead of wasting plastic bottles, so what?! go away! if you mean, then go away, if you CONSERVATIONIST eco citizen, then XO! It’s a way to say “Yea, I wanna save the earth, XO!” That’s all. Just XO.

4. Why XO @emilydstine? Well, here’s why the X is for homo sapien sapien the primate so cool they named it twice. Usually squished in there is a little circle for the head and the O is for the earth.

5. Stele and I were talking and we were wondering who is the foil to http://xoearth.org? [cough cough Dick Cheney] and what would this foil look like? Basically it would be a No Smoking sign encircling the earth next to a $ dollar sign. It means “Yea I know this is probably bad for the earth but I like money, so oh well.”

6. I get it. Money is fun, or it can be fun. But here is the thing you got to remember about MONEY & POWER. . . just make it tenable for the SURVIVAL of homo sapiens sapiens the primate so cool they named it twice.

7. Your daughter, your grandson, your future children. . . you gotta make sure the EARTH is still around [get it, round? haha] for them. If not well then man, you and your granddaughter are SOL [that means Shit out of LUCK]. We wouldn’t want that happening. 

 

So help me & my hippie friend Stele save the EARTH. Sign a pledge on http://ecofx.org. Use LESS! That’s it. You don’t have to drive a  car made out of hemp, we’re not even sure if that is possible. Just use less, buy less, recycle more. Just TRY! Above all try. PLEASE…. It’s not for me, it is for tomorrow.

Oh yea and read my blog [shameless plug] http://emmyappleseed.tumblr.com

signing off 
[typing out]

emily d stine
chief intellectual goddess
emmy appleseed moo.COW PRO duck SHINS

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