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Why do you prefer one over the other? If you don’t run a blogsite faithfully, you don’t need to answer.

Almost all my blogging friends and contacts aren’t interested in social networking. Some of them even express distaste over it and we should know because we have Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc… accounts. (I hear you. I should run a survey and ask them why). I admit that I would rather blog or write like them than ‘social network’. Incidentally, one of my blogging buddy just recently wrote about his losing interest in social networking. And I wonder too why my best male friend prefer social networking. It just doesn’t vibe. Here are possible answers:

-Real writers would rather write than spend time on cheap talk or social networks.
-Spare time available. Writers, employees, and students are all busy. One or the other could be busier.
-They choose the one that’s more useful to themselves.
What do you think?

Online Content vs Printed Content

I chanced upon a book titled Finding Facts Fast and immediately I knew that the book is virtually obsolete. I mean, why waste minutes finding facts in a book when you can find it in Google in seconds. Don’t get me wrong. I still prefer books to electronic texts. The smell of a book is like the smell of food to me.

Teenagers ‘Addicted’ to Smartphones
So here’s an alternative to Internet addiction

’37 per cent of adults and 60 per cent of teenagers admit to being “highly addicted” to their smartphones, which pump through masses of social media, statuses, tweets and text messages per day.
‘Nearly half of all teenagers aged 13 to 16 admitted to using their smartphones on the loo.
‘The research also explores other avenues, such as the blurring of lines between work and social time, and the generational gap.

‘Teenagers are more likely to buy applications from their phone application stores (38 per cent) than adults (25 per cent). Though teenagers are more likely to play games on their smartphones than download music applications, adults are also more likely to download games.
‘And though social networking is long believed to have been all but limited to the younger Generation Y, nearly half (48 per cent) of all adults have a social network profile…’
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/report-teenagers-addicted-to-smartphones-parents-almost-as-bad/12006?tag=nl.e539

New: Search Traffic Hijacking

‘Earlier this year, two research papers reported the observation of strange phenomena in the Domain Name System (DNS) at several US ISPs. On these ISPs’ networks, some or all traffic to major search engines, including Bing, Yahoo! and (sometimes) Google, is being directed to mysterious third party proxies.

‘A report in New Scientist today documents that the traffic is being rerouted through a company called Paxfire. This blog post, coauthored with one of the teams that discovered the phenomenon, will explain the situation in more detail…’
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hijacking-in-the-us