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The Swine Flu Love Memories10.13.09

Looney Tunes Swine Flu - Porky The PigToday I can say with full confidence that in addition to living the hardest and most complexly simple and complex life within myself, I am also living the hardest and most complex life externally. The Swine Flu. What a beautiful name to a mysterious thing. The Mexican Flu. The H4561 flu. Whatever it is called, it is the final sign that anyone alive today, 2009, faces the biggest epidemic risk from a natural disease that we have seen so far in our life in the media, and on a massive scale. No longer do we have to listen to stories that start with “Back in the day, we had people left and right getting sick” in order to start realizing the meaning of everything. It is happening today, here, right now. One day you may be telling friends, family and strangers about the Swine Flu “back in the day.

This article, including the above part, was written on April 30th, 2009, around 1am. It was lost in the catacombs of The Reasoner trenches that are wanting to see the light of the day until today, when Katie noticed it on my computer and told me to go ahead and post it. So here it is, unedited in its writing.

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Why are you not allowed to delete all of your online accounts?10.06.09

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?

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Why do you sympathize with suicide attempts only if they involve celebrities?09.19.09

Halle Berry - She attempted suicide in 1996

Halle Berry attempted suicide in 1996

Life. Many seem to have it. Many more seem to want it. And many seem to let go of it. Suicide. Suicide is a word that is feared by many people. Even though suicide may take more courage and energy than the lifetime struggles of a person, suicide is usually seen in the Western parts of the world as being one of the last, cowardly resorts to give up the idea of dealing with hardships in life.

Today I want to bring up the question of how we deal with someone who has attempted suicide. To be precise, I want you to think about your behavior over celebrities attempting suicide. Why do you, or others, sympathize with celebrities who try to commit suicide, and why do you, or others, laugh, ridicule and classify as psychotic almost all the non-celebrities who try to commit suicide?

Is a suicide attempt by a celebrity different from other suicide attempts? Do you treat celebrities who attempted suicide the same way you would treat a non-celebrity hospital patient who attempted suicide? Why, and why not?

Why do we frown over suicide in general?

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Should Employers and Interviewers Check Your MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, And Other Social Profiles?08.25.09

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?

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If you die, what will happen to your online accounts?08.12.09

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.

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Question: Are You A Tourist Online?07.20.09

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?

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Thought: I want to commit online suicide07.16.09

“Observing looking away…”I have had this idea for a while now. And I have tried it more than once on MySpace and Facebook. In our offline life, many times people feel the need to simply end their life for specific reasons, and many other times, other people feel the need to end their lives for various reasons. I want to do the same online. I have an online presence that is increasing on an almost gradual basis in different forms and areas. That has caused me to think of a thought more than ever before. I am thinking of committing online suicide.

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Thought: You’re stupid, or do you know Stupid Online People?06.28.09

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.

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Top 20 signs You Are A Twitter Addict04.17.09

Twitter addict (by magerleagues)While Twitter is kind of a new online phenomenon for many offline people, it is kind of an evolutionary idea for many people who have been interacting online since the late 90’s. I have noticed so many people being obsessed with MySpace and Facebook for so many years that it seems kind of normal to actually start thinking of the new Twitter addiction that more and more people are unknowingly and happily jumping into.

I was talking to @Jerine from This-Is-The-Mad-Style and thought of many points in this list. I have talked about webcam obsession before. I have also talked about cell phone addiction earlier this year. Today, we will talk in detail about 20 top signs of Twitter addiction that you may notice or analyze in yourself and others.

Twitter addiction is something that was being discussed even back in March of 2008, when Top 10 signs you might need a Twittervention.” You can use twitter itself to find about twitter addiction also. It seems that the golden age has come when we can say we are addicts and be proud of it. Or at least we do not have to hide from others. Sure, saying “I’m a meth addict!” sounds and feels different than saying “I’m a twitter addict“, but either way, you are an addict and you are on your way to acting like one, if you already are not.

I have been using twitter a lot, specially lately, and today I would like to share with you some points which may show that you are a twitter addict. Maybe these points will help me figure out more about myself too. Maybe I already know, which is why I am posting this list. Smile Here we go:

Top 20 signs of Twitter Addiction

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The World of Virtually, Virtually “Virtually” Word04.09.09

I want to announce something today: If you read my articles, you will virtually make a lot of money, guaranteed! Let me explain how this works: you come to my site to read many of the different things I write. Then, you gain a lot of wisdom and you apply that wisdom to everything in your life. Because of that newly acquired wisdom-from-bes-zain-wisdom, you virtually start seeing positive results in everything and gain more money! Thus, in this very paragraph, I have helped you get virtually richer! Smile

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Now, if you are not drunk, or hyper because of eating way too much chocolate cake, you may think “Hmmm, let me check my bank account balance….hmmm, still the same amount of money as this morning! Where is the extra money this site claims to have brought in for me??!!” Do not panic: what you did learn, among many other things, is the effect of the word “virtually” on any claim that you may run across. The idea of promising or offering something by adding the word “virtually” around any statement of any kind is a common practise that is being employed by an increasing number of companies and individuals to add more verbal flavor to something that may otherwise, without the presence of the word “virtually”, be less attractive to potential customers. Today I would like to focus a bit on the thoughts I have about the concept of using the word “virtually” in order to describe something to a person to try to convince them to buy a product or a service due to the powerful impressions and amazing benefits the word “virtually” creates.

In other words, let us focus on the idea of using the word “virtually” to create an impression that, without further explanation about the limits of that impression, may inaccurately in order to gain a customer or some required response.

The idea of using the word “Virtually” in marketing

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Interview with Spoken-For.org creator, Valerie – Part 203.18.09

73/365It has been almost one full year since the Spoken-For.org . When I started interviewing Valerie about her site, most of the focus was on how she handled comments on her website and what her commenting and related ethical principles were.

Valerie is the author of several high-traffic articles which have gathered a lot of attention from online readers. One of the most famous posts, and controversial in the minds of many, is called Why Geek Squad, Best Buy, and Compaq all suck. Because of the number of comments Valerie has gotten in the past and continues to get, I found/find it extremely important to see how Valerie views and deals with comments, since she runs into many different types of commentors on a regular basis.

Part 1 of the interview can be reviewed so you can catch up where we left off last time. There were 7 questions in part 1. There are 10 questions here today. Valerie was very patient with me and was more than happy to help me finish the 2nd part of this interview, even though she was busy with something very important that is mentioned in the very last question of this interview. So here you go: Smile

Interview with Valerie of Spoken-For – Part 2

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Question: Do multiple microblogging services eable more online waste?01.11.09

Brightkite.com logoDuring the past 3 months, I’ve twisted microblogging and similar treats to my own liking, posting everything from random thoughts to my food adventures to crazy findings and more. While majority of the social networking platforms, which are mainly modifications and upgrades to the concept of socialization and blogging, appear to bring in a lot of visitors to my profiles and my websites, and a regular flow of new friend-add requests from friends, strangers and other creatures alike, I am beginning to wonder if I’m leaving behind some kind of an online excess waste for my ownself. The idea of having multiple social networks is awesome. The idea of jumping onto multiple social networks and using them at the same time for the same exact content is what I am pointing out with this question.

Twitter.com logoWith several social networking accounts, I usually have similar kinds of posts on many of such accounts. It is like a book: If I write a single book with a single cover and name, and sell it on different platforms, my single content source, the book itself, will get read and be my own creation that is easy to manage and identify with. If I produce the same content under different book names and editors and covers, with each book having the same content inside but different formatting and names and covers on the outside, I will confuse myself and it may be harder to manage all such book types, even though from the inside the book is exactly the same. I wonder if participating with the same content on multiple social networks can be viewed along the same lines.

Does being part of multiple social networks mean that there is more tendency for us to leave behind online waste?

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Question: Why are you online at this very moment?09.15.08

Today’s question is very simple and very important one. You are most probably online at this very moment, while you read these very words. My question to you is: Why are you online at this very moment?

Finding out why you are online at this very moment

Would it not be very nice and so productive to realize the exact reason or reasons you came online to be online at this very moment? Once you realize the reason or the answer to this question that applies to you, you can realize how much you depend on the online world. That can help in realizing whether or not you can easily switch the online world for you whenever you consider it to be unnecessary, by finding out the offline replacements and alternatives to the very online reasons that make you go online in the first place.

Allow me to give some example answers and reasons to help you figure out this question more. Please feel free to be as brief or as explanatory in your answer as you wish.

Two of the many ways to see why you are online

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