Category: Life
FaceBook is not private
A short time after I learned about FaceBook, I moved as far away from it as I could. As with most of the world, it contains huge piles of garbage. I have a clean, healthy, quiet, and PRIVATE life. Yes, from friends I have in the 20 contries where I worked, I appreciate ability to [...]
How do I permanently delete a 14-yr-old’s Facebook account
Following remarks and related questions was written by Mark Cutshall of Seattle, U.S.A. I would like to ask parents who have gone through similar situations to help answer his questions. Thank you AvoidFacebook.com – Team Support. Our teen-age daughter’s access to Facebook is wrecking havoc with our family. Even though she is [...]
Facebook and School Policy
The answer is for endless fun. Nothing else. Kids are well aware of numerous possibilities of cyber world and social networking. They are just trying to be smarter and earning as much fun as they can. The most popular social networking site, Facebook, has 900 million users world wide. To date, to tease, to comment, [...]
Facebook Generation
Facebook Generation Resides in the Virtual World Having a Facebook account and using it extensively to interact with friends and loved ones has become the next most important thing to consuming food. Yes, that’s true! The very characteristic and features of this social networking website that enable people to interact, build relationships and share cool [...]
Facebook a Business ?
This is probably be one of the rare occasion where I can write more positive things about Facebook than the challenges and effects of Facebook I have been writing since I started the website. That’s because I am looking at Facebook from a business point of view. Also to wish Facebook a favorable IPO on [...]
Ignore Facebook
Number 1 social network site with over 900 million users is becoming a waste of time and more and more people are realizing this. If you are one of those people who are trying to find ways in which you are trying to ignore Facebook then here are some of the ways in which you [...]
Facebook Activity or Outdoor Activity
One of the main disadvantages of being overly active in social networking sites such as Facebook is that you tend to be quite laidback and will soon have a lot of problems associated with being a Facebook addict. Research has proven that your body has not been designed to sit idle in one place for [...]
Facebook Offline
Today most youngsters lead a very sedate life and as a result lifestyle complications such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes make an appearance even in teenagers. You are actually doing yourselves a disservice by spending the majority of your walking hours cooped up in front of your computer and checking out status [...]
Facebook Backgrounds or Nature
Are you among one of those compulsive Facebook users who refresh your page every few minutes looking for status updates? Do you measure your popularity by the number of Facebook friends that you have and the number of likes that your messages get? Probably, you are becoming an addict of Facebook and it is high [...]
Facebook and Health
One of the main reasons why people spend excessive time on Facebook is to satisfy the basic need of wanting to belong to a group. In today’s fast paced life, Facebook offers an easy way to stay connected to all your contacts, even if they were old classmates whom you have not met for several [...]
Facebook Fitness! Still a Dream
Do you know the latest mantra of being cool? The latest mantra is “Get Fit, Be Cool’, and guess who’s advocating this mantra? Well, right from top notch celebrities like Justin Timberlake to Jennifer Aniston, to Jesse Eisenberg and many more have officially boycotted Facebook. Facebook’s over intrusive timeline and “News Feed” feature has created [...]
Suicide and Facebook
The increase in the rate of suicide attempts among kids and teens has really set an alarm of caution among parents. One of the basic reasons behind this trend is that the young have lesser years behind them that may not have helped them get a broader perspective in life. It may come as a [...]
SOPA and PIPA is Not What We Want
Like many website around the world we are observing to keep the internet free from proposed US anti piracy acts. I encourage everyone to leave a comment so the the US congress hears it loud and clear.
Lecture: What has Facebook done to us?
University College London’s Lunch Hour Lecture series starts again next week and one of our first lectures is on the effects of Facebook What has Facebook done to us? comprehensive research on the impact of Facebook on common population reveals very different consequences from those generally available in newspapers. It also express the future of [...]
Get Fit…Be Cool…
I know I have been writing the negatives of Facebook since I started the blog. But I wanted to do more and reach out to those who really didn’t care about the negatives even though there were millions of Facebook users knowingly or not knowingly were affected. This was the fundamental reason why I created [...]
Facebook Wishes ?
Have you ever considered how many of your loved ones – close friends and family members are on Facebook? Most likely, you will notice that the older generation is completely not there in Facebook – they avoid Facebook just like they avoid a lot of other new generation applications. And even close friends would love [...]
Facebook Profiles and Privacy
The social media, unlike many other websites, is people oriented. These sites are places where people find solace in the company of friends who may be willing to talk about anything online. They also have group and fan pages so that if you are given to a particular life style, religion, or race, you rest [...]
Facebook a Search Engine?
We never heard of Facebook being a “Search Engine”. Today I can confirm that Facebook has the capability to index websites. At least they have been indexing our website all of this month. So here is the numbers we have been able to gather for December 2011. (Dec 16, 7:06 a.m.) “Facebook Robot” has been [...]
Child Safety on Facebook
There are lots of social networking criticism issues like kid safety, stress around the World. Although different people from different counties can contact through social networking without any boundaries at the comfort of their favorite home and with the help of net and computer, lots of issues arise due to lack of awareness. Lovely aspects [...]
Executives Should Avoid Facebook
Facebook is one of the many social networking sites out there. Albeit being the most popular one with the highest number of users, it may not exactly be the right place for top company executives to hang around. Let us look at some of the key reasons why top executives are better off avoiding Facebook. [...]
Photos on Facebook
Most people join Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. One of the biggest advantages of Facebook is that it helps you to get in touch with long lost friends. Unfortunately, in the process Facebook has also become the default photo and video sharing site for most of us. However, there are some [...]
Facebook and Business Page
That Facebook has added some upgrades on its platform, is not something that should means that you should place your business on it. Here some of the main reasons why you should avoid Facebook for your business. The first reason is because most businesses don’t have the resources to make an investment in promoting their [...]
Facebook and Children
Following article is written to support Emily Darin’s petition @ Change.org site . The rate of suicide related cases have set off an alarm for caution. This stems from the fact that most persons involved are young people who have many years ahead of them than that they have already spent. It will actually be a [...]
Facebook Parents
Children learn faster by observation. Whatever they see adults around them do they also want to copy as much as they can. The internet does not restrict people below a certain age limit from surfing the net. There may be a certain way of customizing the kind of site that you allow for your family, [...]
Facebook and Divorce
The rate at which couples are seeking for divorce has increased tremendously. It altogether seems as though these couples had it mind that they were only going to stay together for a while, then get separated later. But the truth is that these things happen and there are causes attached to every divorce registered. A [...]
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