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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Fun with online forum topic and comments


Its fun sometimes to read a hot topic on online forums like slashdot where comments are more funnt than subject matter itself. Here is one topic I stumbled upon Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men by Hugh Pickens. It basically concludes that females are more likely to delete existing friend from social media like facebook and males are more likely to regret sharing any post. These two conclusion had their own observation by community and thus followed a long chain of comments. Each comment has its own implication. I just tried to go through it and list some of the important ones. None of the comments are mine. I have just copied them as it is.

Women are more likely to friend people they'll end up unfriending later.
corollary: ...women are less selective, and they add people without thinking about it, and then remove them later when it proves to be a bad idea.... 

Facebook is a technology now? That is kind of like calling Slashdot a "technology."
More like "Women less regretful than men, more likely to blame others."
corollary: Socially women are seen as victims if people misuse or ogle their pictures, where as men are seen as "fair game"

unfriending I see as akin to what I watched a group of girls do in high school. There was about a dozen of them but only 11 could be friends at a time, there was always one girl kicked out of the circle, when she came back they chose another one to be mad at and kicked her out of the circle.

women are more selective than men regarding who to include in their social circle. I could've predicted this from real-world interactions. Women tend to form close-knit cliques. Men will hang with anyone who will get shitfaced drunk with them and commiserate about their problems with women, work, money, etc.

Female's all over the animal kingdom use social exclusion instead of violence in order to punish other females. Exclusion is the primary competitive strategy for all sorts of female animals. Look it up on Wikipedia. Or google it. Its a widely known fact among researchers in the social science. That's how teenage girls bully each other.

Poor grammar and spelling is less objectionable than nasty language. Malice is worse than incompetence.

Women will unfriend someone for wearing the wrong shoes with a skirt, I think men have known this for years.
corollary: ...I've always wondered why so few men wear skirts. Now I know.

What about divorce? Sources say [divorce-la...source.com] that women are initiating divorce in 66% [yahoo.com] of cases.

women come into relationships hoping to change the partner more often (and I believe men come into relationship hoping that the women don't change over time), and both get screwed.

Hope you liked them. There are many more comments. I just caught few of them. You may get more. Just visit the page.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Some Reflections


As I left Pulchowk Campus after taking my letter for writing final question paper, a thought as usual came on my mind. Is it the worst position I have ever been? My current state has been full of trouble of all sorts. I am suffering from my recurring lower respiratory track infection that I always fear will turn asthmatic one day. This grows worse each time as I commute my way to office and back home. A physically as well as mentally weak person from childhood, It has been difficult for me to convince myself that I will ever survive this big monstrous world. Home has no gas and its weeks since we haven't seen proper cooking of food at home. My past childhood days of kerosene are back and my room smells it. My poor roommate rushed for kerosene on morning chill spilling it all over his body as he carried it back home. Its not my poverty that is causing but the state of the nation I am in that reflects this. As I am typing this blog, I am having current loadshedding that I have been facing from the day I crossed into Nepalese border 9 years ago. A small nation yet so unmanaged in all respects that it is one of the poor nation of the world. Scarcity has been implanted so much into my blood that I have this obsession on preventing every kind of resource wastage. Work has been my trouble too. Work pressure caused by improper management and high expectation has been prime source of problem. Its like daily struggle for no goal. Plus being away from home is such a big pain. Half of my problem would sublime if I get the warmth of people around me who don't pretend but feel me internally.

But, suddenly I try thinking of the positive sides of it. Man does not live for happiness, he lives for his dreams and passion. He lives for proving that he has ability to fulfill his goal. I still remember dreaming of teaching one day at pulchowk, a dream college for most of students in nepal as I entered a college far away from kathmandu, rarely heard of. Its not big to have dreams, its still not big to ignore it later. But, what is big is the sacrifice you make to achieve it. Currently, work pressures are immense but the responsibility of my shoulders to lead my team makes me feel proud of myself. A weak person from childhood who always feared that my voice will disappear among crowd, I am representing voice of my team. Its like a roar that echoes and baffles the minds of people. My passionate mind is so much blinded that it has started to ignore the normal human instincts of fear and care. Similarly, I feel I am representing the voice of troubled units. That unit may be my family, my city, my team, my country or even my human race. Suddenly, my fear looses grip and I feel stronger in face of problems. I gain courage to smile at it. Its like becoming so much strong internally that normal external senses dont have any effect.  

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