Why did Colorado shooting suspect avoid social media?

By Doug Gross, CNN July 23, 2012 -- Updated 1930 GMT (0330 HKT) | Filed under: Social Media

Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes appears in court Monday, July 23.

(CNN) -- It's a truth of the digital age. When a person is plucked from obscurity, for good reasons or bad, the first thing curiosity-seekers do is turn to the Web.

Facebook or Twitter. LinkedIn or Tumblr. We expect social media to shed light on a person's personality, especially when, as in the case of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes, we're trying to explain the unexplainable.

As it turns out, 24-year-old Holmes, who stands accused of killing 12 people and wounding dozens more during a shooting spree at a movie theater Friday, appears to have left virtually no digital footprint. Media and law enforcement investigating the shootings have found no traces of him online, aside from a possible account on Adult Friend Finder, a romantic meet-up site, according to police.

Former colleague shocked that Holmes is theater shooting suspect

It's impossible, of course, to draw broad conclusions about his mindset based on the fact that he didn't share online. But Holmes' lack of an online presence has emerged as a piece of the puzzle for people looking for answers.

 

"We could ask the same questions about the lack of Web presence that we could for anyone who isolates themselves. Was he socially isolated in all senses?" asked Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center.

"We know that social isolation can amplify the negative consequences of stress and increase the risk of developing psychopathology. Some research has shown that social isolation actually delays the positive effects of activities found to be emotionally beneficial, such as exercise. ... What we don't know is what caused Holmes to have such a break with reality."

Whatever his reasons, the lack of an online presence puts Holmes squarely in the minority among his peers.

About 81% of 18- to 29-year-olds in the United States use social media at least occasionally, said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

And surveys show that college students like Holmes, who was a graduate neurosciences student at the University of Colorado, are even more likely to use the sites.

But Rainie says it would be a mistake to draw a direct line between his decision to eschew social networking and a mindset that led to the alleged violence.

"It's not the norm for someone of this age to have such a limited presence, in any form: no blogs, no profile on a photo-sharing site and things like that," Rainie said. "But it's also a mistake to think the everyone in this age cohort is living every minute of their lives with social media. That's not the case."

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The survey didn't ask respondents for specific reasons that they choose not to engage online. But Rainie said Pew has heard numerous reasons, from concerns about wasting time to privacy concerns to simply preferring face-to-face interaction.

In a Pew survey from November, two-thirds of respondents (67%) said that staying in touch with current friends is a major reason they use social media, and half gave similar importance to connecting with old friends. Only 3% said that finding a romantic partner was a major reason for their of digital networking tools.

"It's certainly an interesting element of his life that (Holmes) had such a limited digital presence," Rainie said. "But it's not necessarily the case that this means anything about the quality of his social world."

Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at University College of London, has studied the impact of Internet use on mental health. He too says it's impossible to nail down its significance at this point but listed a set of possibilities, from a sense of isolation to distaste for Facebook as an emblem of "the status quo" to something perhaps even more sinister.

"He (possibly) did not want to have any reputation other than for what he was planning to do, like someone who saves himself for the big stage or a single lead role," Chamorro-Premuzic said.

Similar attacks in the recent past have, in some cases, painted a different picture.

Jared Lee Loughner, charged in the January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was active on MySpace and YouTube, among other online networks.

Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at summer camp in Norway in July 2011. Breivik was a prolific blogger who was active on Facebook, Twitter and other sites. He posted a video to YouTube only hours before his shooting rampage.

By contrast, reporters looking into the mindset of Seung-Hui Cho, the 23-year-old student who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others in an April 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, found almost no traces of him online.

Shooting survivors recount Colorado movie theater horror

The lack of a digital footprint for Holmes has created some unpleasantness for an unexpected group: people who share his relatively common name, live in the area of the shooting and do have a Web presence.

"It amazes me how insensitive, heartless and just plain old IGNORANT some people are in this world," a different James Holmes, this one a fitness instructor who, like the suspect, lives in Aurora, wrote on his Facebook page. "In the last 24 hours I have received hate mail, racist remarks, and sexual advances. I have over 400 friend requests in which a quarter of those are ppl mocking the real killer to gain attention and this was all AFTER the identity of the real killer was revealed ..."

James P. Holmes, who lives in the Denver area, left a similar note on Facebook, albeit in a more wry tone.

"I am not a 24-year-old gun-slinging killer from Aurora, I am a 22-year-old book-slinging mass eater from Littleton ... ," he wrote. "James Holmes happens to be a pretty common name, surprisingly, so try not to jump the gun. Regards, A different guy named James Holmes."

With few, if any, conclusions to draw, Rutledge said the most interesting observation about society as a whole may be how surprised we are that the suspect did not use social media.

"It's a testimony to how normal participating in the social media world is when we look at the lack of presence as an anomaly," she said. "(We wonder,) 'What's wrong with this guy that he's not at least on Facebook?' "

Social media is lying to you about Burma’s Muslim ‘cleansing’

July 19, 2012

Don't you wonder sometimes, that the information we are being fed on daily basis can be untrue entirely or exaggerated to the point where it loses all its truth? PHOTO: REUTERS

Social networking sites are abuzz with news about Muslims being killed in Burma.You can see the sporadic posting of pictures by different people with captions like ‘Muslims killing in Burma’, ‘Muslims slaughtered by Buddhists in Burma’ and so on.
Thus, I took on the mission to sort the truth out for myself once and for all and researched some pictures that I felt were dubious. Below are a few pictures and their original copies. You can evidently see the gross difference between them and how they are thrown out of context.
This was a picture shared on Facebook.


I have found the original version which reads differently to the the one posted on the social networking site.

This picture was taken in 2010 after an earthquake in China and captures the efforts put in by the Tibetans to help rescue the victims. Now, Islamic political parties and some other elements are sharing this image as Muslim killing and their slaughter in Burma.
Another widely circulated  picture captioned “More then 1,000 people killed in Burma” is also fake.

The original, as you can see below, is taken in Thailand in the year 2004. This picture shows protesters that were tear-gassed outside the Tal Bai police station in Bangkok. This is roughly 1,409.9 km away from Burma! What is grossly negligent about these photos is the factual ignorance of the hate these misleading photos can culminate.

Below, please find another image which was posted online, this time with an imprint of Jamaat-e-Islami on the top left . It reads ‘Terrorists of Budhism of Burma kills 500 Muslims’.
As you can guess, this is also a fabricated picture.

In reality, this image belongs to a Human Rights violation incident by the Thai authorities against the Rohingya ethnic minority of Burma. These refugees were detained for a few weeks and then sent off drifting into the sea.
Here is another instance of such fallacy spreading across the social media sites regarding the massacre of Muslims in Burma.

This picture is extremely misleading considering that the original image was about the riots in Thailand that took place in 2003!
Now, take a look at the image below and observe how it is blown out of context.

Now, view the original.

The original picture is not even remotely close to what the picture above states. In fact, a Tibetan protester had set himself on fire in protest prior to the arrival of Chinese president Hu Jintao and that too in Delhi.
I do not deny the killings of Muslims in Burma – not even for a minute.
I think it is horrific and I am sympathetic towards the immense loss being suffered by my Muslim brothers and sisters abroad.
What I am against is being lied to.
Imagine the amount of lies we are being fed through these pictures. How can one trust any image online if such drastic manipulation and editing is being done to cater to someone’s political or personal agenda?
Social media and networking sites, if used properly, can be an impressive tool in spreading awareness amongst its users, but it can be an equally dangerous median as well if misused.
These images are false and are only igniting hatred and prejudice in our youth.
We need to become more vigilant and aware of the credibility and authenticity of  pictures we browse through. It only takes one wrong image to push us over the edge towards extremism.
Who do you think is more misleading?

http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/12867/social-media-is-lying-to-you-about-burmas-muslim-cleansing/

Stupid Idea Of The Day: Let's Nationalize Facebook!

Stupid Idea Of The Day: Let's Nationalize Facebook!

 Facebook is a little like the weather in that old joke: Everyone loves to complain about it, but no one ever does anything about it. So thoroughly have its failings been hashed over, it can be tough to come up with a genuinely new criticism. So I have to take my hat off to Philip Howard for offering what is, as far as I know, a knock no one has ever articulated before:

The problem with Facebook is that it’s not operated by the federal government. Writing on Slate, Howard, a professor of information technology policy at Princeton University, makes the case for nationalizing the massive social networking site.

While Howard couches his proposal as “a great thought experiment” and acknowledges that it’s probably outside the realm of the possibility, he’s sincere in his belief that that “the benefits outweigh the risks,” and that it’s fair to hold Facebook to a higher standard of public accountability and scrutiny than other companies must meet.

“Facebook is now public infrastructure, and it should be treated as such,” he writes. Should it, though? I like a good thought experiment, so let’s extend this one a bit. Let’s say the federal government somehow found a constitutional mechanism to seize control of Facebook. (Howard seems to think it could be done on anti-monopoly grounds; we’ll get to that.)

What would happen to innovation in Silicon Valley? What would be the effect of demonstrating that the reward of building the most envied company in America — one that’s actually profitable and employs thousands of people and provides a platform for other businesses, large and small — is getting seized by the government?

What effect would that have on the flow of capital? But you don’t even need to go there to see the flaws in Howard’s idea. As bad as it looks when you pull back the camera and take in the big picture, it holds up even worse when you zoom in on the details. Let’s take a closer look at some of his arguments.

Privacy. Howard: “Few of us fully understand Facebook’s privacy policy, much less keep track of changes. People are sharing more personal information on Facebook than they think they are. And for every dozen Facebook users in the United States, one does not use privacy settings — either because that person doesn’t care or doesn’t know enough about how the privacy settings can be used.

 One out of nine people who ride in automobiles still don’t use seatbelts, either because they don’t know the statistics around how they save lives or they don’t care. Is that a reason to nationalize all the car companies?

 Anti-competitiveness. Howard: “With 80 percent of market share, Facebook is already a monopoly.” This is asserted without a citation or link, so I don’t know what, exactly, Facebook is supposed to have an 80% share of. Not that it’s a far-fetched number:

According to Hitwise, Facebook’s share of visits to social networking sites is about 62%. But is that a meaningful statistic?

 Comparing Facebook, with its vast range of products, to a micro-messaging service like Twitter or a career-oriented site like LinkedIn is totally apples-to-oranges. And using site visits as your measuring stick only gives you a picture of the past, not the future. For the latter, you have to look at mobile usage, where Facebook’s dominance is far from established. Indeed, FORBES contributor Eric Jackson makes a pretty solid argument that Facebook might not exist at all in five years, much less have the entire internet in a headlock.

 Political expression. Howard: 

“Facebook communications are an important tool for democracy advocates, including those who helped organize the Arab Spring. Yet the user policy of requiring that democratic activists in authoritarian regimes maintain ‘real’ profiles puts activist leaders at risk….Rather than allow Facebook to serve authoritarian interests, if nationalized in the United States, we could make Facebook change its identity policy to allow democracy activists living in dictatorships to use pseudonyms.

 So the problem is that activists who use Facebook to organize are in danger of having their identities exposed or otherwise being spied on. Howard’s solution is to entrust the duty of safeguarding their privacy to the U.S. government — the same U.S. government that wiretapped without warrants and accidentally exposed the identities of Afghans who risked their lives to help American military units. Yup. Great idea. Another thought experiment: Let’s imagine that Twitter was government-run. Would it still have fought the attempts by prosecutors to get their hands on deleted tweets posted by an Occupy Wall Street protester?

 Public health. Howard: “Facebook’s data harvesting could be used to improve public policy, yet scholars rarely find the company willing to collaborate on important research questions…. A publicly accessible, central way of sharing data would allow better access for social and public health researchers.” This isn’t a terrible point. If public health officials could be using Facebook’s data to monitor diseases or otherwise keep people from getting sick or dying, then Facebook ought to cooperate. But there’s no reason it has to be nationalized to make that happen.

Google already helps track the spread of flu strains around the world, and it’s still part of the private sector last time I checked. By all means, let’s pressure Facebook to do more than it’s already doing. But must we resort to extortion? Whatever the hell this means: “While most U.S. citizens and most global citizens treat Facebookas their social network infrastructure, the firm is greatly understaffed: It has about 4,000 employees serving nearly 1 billion users.” In other words, if Facebook were a high school, it would have a really bad student/teacher ratio. You wouldn’t want to send your kids there.

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/08/17/stupid-idea-of-the-day-lets-nationalize-facebook/2/

List of websites blocked in the People's Republic of China

List of websites blocked in the People's Republic of China

Social Networks, Blogging Platforms, Video, Image Sharing and Web Hosting Services

* Facebook
* YouTube[6][7][8][9]
* Vimeo – Blocked since October 15, 2009.[10]
* Twitter – Blocked since June 2, 2009.[7][11][12]
* Google Documents
* Google App Engine - Unblocked as of November 27th 2011.
* Google Plus
* Picasa Web Albums – Blocked since July 2009.[13]
* Technorati (www.technorati.com) – Still blocked as of July 2, 2008.[14]
* Blogspot blogs – Still blocked as of July 4, 2010, but Blogger no longer appears blocked. Both Blogspot blogs and Blogger as of May 15, 2009, had been fully blocked.[7][8][15]
* Wordpress - All Wordpress-powered blogs are still blocked as of November 2011.
* Plurk (www.plurk.com) – Still blocked as of April 23, 2009.[16]
* Wretch – The largest Taiwanese blog and image hoster, blocked since August 2007;[17] blocked as of April 25, 2009.
* PBworks – Still blocked as of January 19, 2011.[18]

Non-governmental organizations

* China Bill of Rights (www.chinabillofrights.org)[19]
* Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org)[19]
* Wikileaks (www.wikileaks.org) （possible to access now,2011.10.18)[20]
* Falun Gong – related websites like (www.falundafa.org).[1][21]
* Nobel Prize Foundation (nobelprize.org)
* Amnesty International (amnesty.org)


Political organizations
* Central Tibetan Administration (www.tibet.com) - Blocked October 2002.[19]
* Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China (http://www.alliance.org.hk/) - Block as of June 17, 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

Tips for Reaching Out to Twitter's 50 Million Daily Users

Tips for Reaching Out to Twitter's 50 Million Daily Users
by Angela West
19.10.2011 kl 22:22 | PC World (US)

Web designers, advertising agencies, and people with a firm grip on the online world have known for years that Twitter is indispensable. The trick has always been how to communicate that to the business owners who were their clients.

Web designers, advertising agencies, and people with a firm grip on the online world have known for years that Twitter is indispensable. The trick has always been how to communicate that to the business owners who were their clients.

Flash to today. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that Twitter is valued at $8 billion and boasts over 100 million users, 50 million of whom log in daily. Those users send 250 million tweets a day. In addition, Facebook is letting users update their Twitter accounts from Facebook, which will encourage even more use .

The number of daily users and tweets being sent per day represent missed business opportunities if you're not using Twitter well. Luckily, getting on Twitter is simple. For your business, you might want to take the extra step of having a graphic designer create a properly branded Twitter background for your profile. Also create a decent photo or logo to use as your Twitter avatar, the picture that appears to the left of your tweets and at the top of your page.

Find Followers Who Are Potential Clients

If you're a real estate agent, adding people interested in properties is likely to net you a following of other agents, not people interested in purchasing homes in your area. Go where your customers are. Search for users in your area who have interests similar to those in your usual demographic. If you sell condos, add a few followers a day who look like young urban professionals. If you sell homes, look for local mom bloggers and add them. This method takes a little more time, but it's much more likely to net relevant followers.

Use Twitter Properly as a Business

Many companies get on Twitter and tweet boring stuff like corporate donations, company news, and their latest press release. While there is room on Twitter for these announcements, if they're all your company pumps out, potential clients will largely ignore your Twitter account.

Remember that Twitter is, at its core, a two-way channel to communicate your and brand to the world. It's not a one-way advertising channel. You need to make sure that you're interacting with your followers rather than just throwing links out to the world. Give a couple of people in your organization the job of managing the Twitter account, and make sure to pass along and follow up on inquiries and service requests.

Take a look at your core demographic. If they're seniors, they'll appreciate links to helpful articles about programs to fight identity theft or other scams. If they're younger adults, they'll more likely to click on links to cool YouTube videos.

Schedule Tweets to Save Time

With HootSuite, multiple users can log into a Twitter account and manage it from anywhere. You can schedule tweets, which means you can take a few minutes in the morning to line up tweets throughout the day. You can also set Twitter up to email you when someone mentions you on Twitter or asks you a question, which lets your company jump on the request right away without constantly monitoring the service.

If you were off the Twitter bandwagon until now, have a look at the numbers and examine if you can devote a small amount of resources to start up your account and maintain a Twitter account.

Angela West dreams of opening a Fallout-themed pub featuring wait staff with Pip-Boys. She's written for big insurance companies, small wildlife control businesses, gourmet food chains, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @angelawest.

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=334E9AF7-1A64-6A71-CEE2D6187B86E484

Facebook updates its status: It wants to be an entertainment hub

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg tells the 2,000 software developers attending the company's annual conference Thursday in San Francisco that new features, including a dramatic redesign of users' profiles, will "transform" the media industry. (David Paul Morris, Bloomberg / September 23, 2011)



Facebook updates its status: It wants to be an entertainment hub
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg outlines a new look for the social-networking site and a media push. The moves come amid growing competition from Google, which in June launched rival social-networking service Google+.

How to Address Failure in a Job Interview

How to Address Failure in a Job Interview
IT failures that occurred on your watch don't have to kill your chances of landing a new job. You just need to know how to discuss them in job interviews. Here are five tips.
By Meridith Levinson
Tue, June 28, 2011

CIO — For CIOs who experience some kind of enterprise IT failure in the course of their careers—whether a high-profile security breach, massive network outage, or multi-million dollar ERP boondoggle—the incident can feel like a career killer. But unless a CIO repeatedly makes the same mistake, or the failure stemmed from some illegal or "just plain stupid" action, it won't end a CIO's career, says Mark Polansky, senior client partner and managing director of Korn/Ferry International's Information Officers practice.

"There is as much—if not more—to learn from something that didn't work as something that did," says Polansky. "Every one of those experiences is a life lesson and goes into making you a better CIO."

CIOs who wish to recover from failure just need to know how to address suboptimal work experiences in their job searches and during job interviews. Consider the following five tips for addressing the fiascoes that occurred on your watch with prospective employers and executive recruiters.

1. Fess up. Don't ever try to hide failure; you won't get away with it. If an employer doesn't already know about, say, the ERP catastrophe at your previous employer, they will find out about it eventually. Better you be the source of that information than someone else.

"A good offense is the best defense," says Polansky, who advises CIOs to proactively address their failures in job interviews. "Always bring it up. Doing so gives the candidate credibility and shows that he or she has the confidence and sincerity to broach the subject of the failed project head on."

2. Anticipate prospective employers' concerns. When framing how you discuss your failure, put yourself in your prospective employer's shoes and think about the concerns they'd have with your candidacy, advises Peter Handal, president and CEO of Dale Carnegie Training.

For example, employers will want to be assured that such a failure will not occur inside their company. They'll also want the details around what happened, why it happened, what you learned from the experience, and how you will prevent similar events from occurring in the future, says Polansky.

3. Accentuate the positive. One failed project among 10 successful ones is no big deal, says Handal. He advises CIOs to put any failures they've experienced in the context of their larger successes.

"Explain that a particular project didn't go well," says Handal. "State the reason, and if you made a mistake, explain what you learned. Then point out all the other successful things you did."

4. Offer references who can back up your story. Make sure your references will corroborate your explanation of events when employers and recruiters call them.

"If the failure was outside the CIO's purview, such as a change in business circumstances or corporate strategy, I would have references who could confirm that information," says Polansky. He adds that executive recruiters and employers will contact the references the candidate provides as well as individuals they know in the candidate's industry to vet the candidate's story.

5. How you discuss your failure is sometimes more important than the actual failure. John Hamm, author of Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership (Jossey-Bass 2011), notes that the questions about failed projects that come up during a job interview are sometimes a smokescreen. When a CEO asks a prospective CIO questions about a failed project, the CEO may be more interested in how the CIO confronts the failure, rather than the project itself, he says.

"The CEO could be testing for how the CIO sees the situation and if the CIO is willing to be accountable," adds Hamm, who is also a former CEO. "They know the [CIO] role is hard and that stuff fails. They want to know how you [the candidate] will handle it."

It is possible for CIOs to continue enriching careers in IT leadership despite high-profile flops staining their track records. After all, most organizations have some tolerance for failure.

"If you don't take risks, you can't try anything new," says Handal. "And if you take risks, you'll have some failures. Encouraging people to take risks is an important part of any organization, so you have to be tolerant of failure."

Adds Polansky, "It's always possible to recover. Sometimes, it just has to be at the right place and right time."

Meridith Levinson covers Careers, Project Management and Outsourcing for CIO.com. Follow Meridith on Twitter @meridith. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook. Email Meridith at mlevinson@cio.com.

http://www.cio.com/article/685259/How_to_Address_Failure_in_a_Job_Interview?page=2&taxonomyId=3123

Don't Let Your Life Turn Out Like This

Don't Let Your Life Turn Out Like This
























IT Person never die. They just go Offline. !!!

5 Things You Should Be Careful About When Using Facebook!

5 Things You Should Be Careful About When Using Facebook!

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, was launched a mere 6 years ago in United States of America by a group of Harvard students and until early 2006, this social network was virtually unknown in Pakistan. Pakistani nation was glued to other social networks including Orkut and Hi5 but there was not Facebook. The world’s biggest social network Facebook started gaining a slow but firm momentum from late 2006 and since then it has added more than 2 Million users! Pakistan is also 41st biggest user of Facebook! According to some statistics Pakistani youth (age 18 to 24) is the biggest user base of this giant social network.

It is also worth mentioning that Pakistani Facebook user base is growing at an average rate of 20 – 35% and this is despite of the fact that Facebook was banned by Pakistani government last month and this social network’s popularity has decreased. So it can be safely assumed that in next 10 to 15 years more than 90% of online Pakistan in general and Pakistani youth in particular would have their presence on Facebook.

So here are 5 simple things you should be careful about when using Facebook!

Be Careful About What You Post
We all post all sorts of stuff on Facebook. It could be a simple Facebook profile status, a web link, a photo, a video or even comments of other people’s posts! You should always keep one thing in mind that whatever you posted or have uploaded on Facebook is NOT PRIVATE. People, especially youngsters, post (comments and pictures including) many “objectionable material” on Facebook which can be pulled out many years later.

Be Careful When Adding Friends
The main purpose of any social network is to have a social interaction and a major part of this interaction may result in you adding different people as friends. You should be very careful when adding someone as a friend because you never know that the person you are adding might have “bad intentions” or might want to add you as a friend so that he/she may gain access to your information which can later be used in many ways.

Be Careful About Using Applications on Facebook
Facebook has hundreds of thousands of applications and millions of application users. These applications, or apps, range from simple “social interview” to highly enticing games. Almost all of these apps on Facebook require you to grant them “extended access” to your Facebook profiles and once you grant them the required access, these apps can access all of your data even including your “protected” data. There have been few cases registered in which hackers have gained access to profiles (later hacking some of the profiles) through such applications. It is also worth mentioning that most of the Facebook applications are not even developed by the Facebook! So if you fall into any of such scams, there is no way out!

Be Careful About Joining Facebook Groups & Before You “Like” Or Even Reporting A Fan Page
Yes, this is actually very serious! You should be very careful about what groups you join on Facebook! This may sound being very “hyper sensitive” about your FB profile but there have been many cases in which people have been fired from their jobs just because they had joined “objectionable” groups on Facebook. There are reports of Australian visa being refused to a Pakistani student just because he had created a fan page named “Al-Qaeda” (fan page was later removed). That student must have though that he lived in a “free world” where he could just say “anything about anything” but he forgot that the freedom of expression is still not fully free.

I am sure that you must know someone whose Facebook account was deleted by Facebook team just because he/she had been posting excessive material against a particular religion. You should avoid posting “offensive” or “sensitive” material. I know many cases in which people got their Facebook accounts deleted by the Facebook just because they had reported many anti-Islamic fan pages. If you have any report to make against any fan page, report it once or twice (max) and add a description as to why are you reporting against fan page. DO NOT keep on reporting against one single page as this could get your account blocked or deleted.

Be Careful About Sharing Your Information On Facebook
Okay, we understand that you need to be on the Facebook to stay connected with your peers, friends and family. And yes, we know that deleting your Facebook account in order to safeguard your web profile is not a good solution. So the best known solution of staying connected through Facebook and not having your information leaked to unwanted people is to have your Facebook privacy settings in placed. You think this is a lame solution? We agree. This is not so cool sci-fi way of solving the privacy issue but unfortunately there is no alternative! If you want to keep your FB profile up then you got to resort to Facebook’s private setting! Facebook offers your highly customizable privacy setting which can be separately applied to many components.

Remember: You must not allow the “strangers” to view your private photos, your phone numbers, your address etc. And DO NOT share your login and password with anybody!

Does Using Google Make Us Stupid?

Does Using Google Make Us Stupid?
March 12, 2011
by Bill Lentini

On my desk I have a dictionary and a thesaurus. Our offices at GAI (www.gunwel.com) are a big open space where we all sit facing each other and often times I’ll say “someone give me a word for…” (as I’m too lazy to open the thesaurus) and instead of someone just giving me a word or phrase you hear …tap, tap, tap of the keys as they google for a word or phrase. The internet is changing our brains. Neurologists and psychologists have discovered that our brains process Internet pages differently than they do printed pages. That can affect how much we learn when we read – and even alter our brains themselves.
The human brain “rewires” itself depending on how it is used, an ability neurologists refer to as “plasticity.” Apparently spending one hour per day on the internet for just one week alters our neural pathways. The neural rewiring could have unfortunate consequences. For the past five centuries, reading books has helped train human brains to concentrate intently over extended periods of time, an ability that has helped our species produces ideas and inventions. If we abandon books in favor of the Internet, our ability to maintain focus and think up new ideas might diminish. Here are other consequences of Internet use and what we can do about them…

Interruption System: When we read online, words are not the only information coming at us. There usually eye-catching advertisements alongside the text and hyperlinks in the text in case we wish to jump to different Web pages on related topics. We might have our e-mail program open and a Facebook feed, too, alerting us each time a new message arrives. Even when a printed book is transferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it turns into something very much like a Web site, with links and other digital enhancements. These distractions don’t just slow our reading, they also make it less likely that we will understand and retain new knowledge. What to do: When you wish to give your full attention to online or eReader text, close your e-mail program, your Facebook page and other competing information feeds on the screen. Also, use software settings that minimize interruptions.
Less is read: The Internet puts more information than ever at our fingertips – yet evidence suggests that it actually leads us to read and rely upon a smaller set of information resources, encouraging uncreative group thinking. The trouble is that the Internet does not just provide information. It also subtly evaluates it for us. Search engines typically sort their results in order of popularity, and few if us scan past the first page of results. What to do: So scan beyond the first page of results when you use a search engine to explore a topic of interest. This at least gives you a chance to learn more than what almost everyone else interested in the topic already knows. When an Internet search for a piece of information leads you to a compelling article, book or Web site, jot down its name, then explore it more fully when you have more time.
Less Social Intelligence: The Internet is no longer confined to our desktops. E-readers, smartphones and even vehicle dashboards increasingly allow us to bring the online world wherever we go – a trend that will accelerate in the years ahead. The danger of digital distractions while driving already is well publicized. Less discussed is the potential danger that such portable distractions pose while we’re just sitting around with friends or loved ones. The distractions created by the use of mobile Internet devices make it less likely that we will fully grasp the psychological states of other people’s moods, the less able we are to show appropriate empathy, weakening the bonds that hold together human communities, families and friendships. What to do: Turn off digital devices when you spend time with others…nuff said.
And for my part in writing this blog the only hyperlinks that I’m going to put in here are those to my website. I don’t want you to be distracted! Gunwel Tax & Bookkeeping Service is very tuned into the social networking aspect of business, yet when you are our client and we are meeting with your or working on your tax returns or books…we are fully concentrating on you. We are 100% present. We love what we do and our clients love our results. We’d love to hear your thoughts on what the Internet has done to your brain…Give us a call at 212-979-6830 or stop by for a visit. See you soon!

http://gunwel.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/does-using-google-make-us-stupid/

Fix Your Computer Posture

Fix Your Computer Posture
By Chris Geisert

Is Your Computer Posture Hurting You? If your body starts hurting while you are sitting at your computer, it is time to fix your computer posture. Sitting at your computer all day can cause immediate and continuous, prolonged pain if you are not careful.

More and more people are spending an increasingly longer period of time on their computers. This increases the number of people with forward head posture and upper body aches and pains.

Here are some easy tips to keep your computer from becoming your worst enemy.

1. Exercise is the best medicine for common neck, back, shoulder aches caused from poor posture. When you sit at your computer all day, your muscles become rigid, tight and aches and pains creep in.

Swimming is the best exercise for getting rid of your upper body aches and pains, especially neck pain because it loosens and strengthens your neck and back muscles.

2. Raise your computer monitor so the center is eye level. Raising the monitor a good 5 to 10 inches will help improve your computer posture. Continuously looking down will put the head in an uncompromising posture position which causes and increases aches and pain.

3. Don't spend all day on your computer, if possible. After 15 to 20 minutes on the computer, get up and walk around. This will help exercise your muscles, refresh your mind and help get rid of your upper body tension. You can also do some stretches, especially neck stretches in your chair if you can't get out of your seat.

4. Exercise: This is probably the only truly reliable long term solution to your aches and pains as it increases your muscles strength and loosens the body's tension from staying still.

5. Improve your posture. Don't slouch at your computer. Sit up straight. Don't slouch while standing. Stand up straight. Don't slouch.

6. Stop sticking your head out. When a person has forward head posture, they put an extra 10 to 15 pounds of excess strain on their upper body for every inch forward the head is from its natural plum line, causing pain which could lead to a hump on your back.

7. Stretch your neck. There are many stretching exercises for free on the Internet which will help release neck tension. When you wake up, spend extra time in the hot shower stretching your neck muscles. The heat will help loosen your neck after a long night of sleep. The more you stretch your neck, the better you will feel.

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2 Plastic Garbage Bags

2 Plastic Garbage Bags


A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her.

One of the bags rips, and every once in a while a $20 bill falls out onto the sidewalk. Noticing this, a policeman stops her, and says, "Ma'am, there are $20 bills falling out of your bag."
"Oh, really? Darn!" said the little old lady. "I'd better go back and see if I can find them. Thanks for telling me."

"Well, now, not so fast," says the cop. "How did you get all that money? You didn't steal it, did you?"

"Oh, no", said the little old lady. "You see, my backyard is right next to the football stadium parking lot. On game days, a lot of fans come and pee through the fence into my flower garden, so, I stand behind the fence with my hedge clippers. Each time some guy sticks his thing through the fence, I grab it and say, '$20 or off it comes'."

"Well, that seems only fair" laughs the cop. "OK. Good luck! Oh, by the way, what's in the other bag?"


She shrugs and replies, "Well, you know, not everybody pays."

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