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Source: Ben Greenman
Tag: google
Seldom in doubt, often wrong.
Yahoo Mail.
Date Established: July 13, 2007
Date Sunsetted: August 14, 2013
6 years, almost to the day.
18,022 emails sent.
9,035 emails saved.
Loved the clean interface.
Loved the familiarity.
Loved coming to the warm hearth of home with every login.
Didn’t love its inability to import all of my contacts.
(Man has 10 friends, including family, yet has 2318 contacts. And the question would be, WHY?)
And, deplored the recent freezing and lock-ups.
Before making a change of this magnitude,
Many would research, inquire, ponder, pause.
It would have taken a second or two to Google “Six.”
Six Years on Yahoo Mail.
Wiki would have told me
that God, who I’ve yet to find,
would have said “Seven stands for completeness.”
And “Six stands for things that fall short of God’s standards.”
It would have been a signal.
To slow down.
To pause.
To wait another year.
A flashing red light from above.
We are, in other words, one another’s virtual enablers
NY Times, Sunday, June 16, 2013: Facebook Made Me Do It (Excerpts)
…That feedback loop of positive reinforcement is the most addictive element of social media. All those retweets, likes and favorites give us a little jolt, a little boost that pushes us to keep coming back for more. It works whether or not we post the typical social media fodder of lush vacation pictures and engagement announcements or venture into realms that showcase our most daredevilish antics and risqué behavior.
…Our growing collective compulsion to document our lives and share them online, combined with the instant gratification that comes from seeing something you are doing or experiencing get near-immediate approval from your online peers, could be giving us more reason to act out online, for better or for worse.
…We are, in other words, one another’s virtual enablers.
…the vast amplification of the potential audience a single person can reach has raised the stakes for all online activity.
…“It’s performative.”
Source: The New York Times: Facebook Made Me Do It by Jenna Wortham, Technology reporter
Today’s Weather
Best Jobs in America
Click on image above and then click again on the image in the article for a full size view of the Best Jobs In America. No surprise – Technology, Healthcare, Telecom and Professional Services rank high on the list. Interesting research and findings. Best Jobs:
- Online Affiliates posting links for Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter (Categorized as high pay, low stress).
- Mathematician
- Actuary
- Statistician
- Computer systems analyst
Hit msnbc.com for full article titled “Want a Tough Job? Do the Math.”
Source: Thank you eclectipundit.com for the share.
- Note: Rachel/Eric, I hope you are reading and digesting this too!
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