Social Networking
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Message received often times is different from message intended. Wrong timing. Different context and stress level. Words that inadvertently trigger negative emotions. We live and learn. It’s not easy to get across, at both cognitive and emotive levels. Male are known for missing emotional signals more often than female. That’s why long distance relationships are hard.…
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Even though it gets harder. Best way is to think of warm childhood moments: that red balloon, the first bike, or the first date. I managed to write a few lines in a piece of paper and tossed it onto her balcony. My version of texting. Later, I walked back and forth at another girl’s door…
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” People bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made” (Sound of Silence now inducted to the American Museum as Classic American Sound to be preserved). Meanwhile, we spend an average 8 hours per month on Facebook, “the cathedral they made” (same amount of time people attend church services). Twitter is not addictive. Facebook is.…
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In a God-Father scene, the execution order was carried out as cut-away from the black-tie wedding scene. Lately, President Obama in Brazil attending state dinner (while France-led air strike was carried out over Libya no-fly zone ), and two nights ago at the White House Correspondents’ dinner (while the takedown was carried out in Pakistan). Hollywood materials. (at…
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Building up our filtering capacity does not mean firming up our prejudice. But no matter what we do, we can only watch an average of 4 hours of TV and a few hours on the Web, mobile or stationary. So we rely on thought leaders. Two-step information flow. Except this time, information flow through a…
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You have heard that line in movies, at the bar, or convention hall. The Post had an article about the survival of the card in our digital age. Maybe because it’s so small, so humble, and so obvious. Google was thinking big i.e. “organize the world’s information”, thus, overlooked the tiny card in our wallet.…
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I channel surfed last night. C-SPAN 3 covered the Memorial in PA for flight 93, those unsung heroes who diverted terrorist plot 9 years ago. The uncut shot kept panning the vast expanse of Pennsylvanian field, future home of Flight 93 Memorial. Graphically speaking, it was boring. MOS (mid out sound) since the mike did…
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Twittering to the tune of a billion bucks? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2009/tc20090924_956402.htm?campaign_id=related_AK And the deficit changed slightly to the tune of 1.29 trillion bucks. Since when we are anesthetized to these huge dollar figures? But I must give it to the Lab geeks who came up with new inventions: copying over the distance (fax), texting over the phone…
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On Facebook Lite, people with mobile devices can just send a quick comment and get on with hearing the President Speech. http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/11/with-facebook-lite-a-step-deeper-into-twitter-terrain/ Social networking not “for here” but “to go”. It’s the equivalent of talking to friends while on a moving train or automobile, or while paying at the cash register. We are a society…
Thang Nguyen 555 