”You have 5 friend requests”

Every single time I go to a party or meet new people whom I talk to for one or a couple minutes, I get friend requests on Facebook the following day. A dilemma appears: If I accept the friend request the person will have access to everything from my photos to my status updates, I don’t know this person! But if I decline the request, will I ever meet this person again? Because, fact is, a bigger part of our lives is nowadays based on the enormous World Wide Web. Thus, we make contact and get to know people we would never start talking to without social pages like MySpace and Facebook.

Friend means something else today when compared to what it meant before. That is another fact of today’s. A friend ten years ago (a.k.a. the good times) was someone whom I had daily contact with. That’s why I had a couple of best friends, all of my friends were my best friend, and one of them were my “bestest” friend.

This article states what I think is pretty obvious. When at work, people should not be accepting friend requests from clients. The relation between the two parts should stay strictly based on their businesses.

This blog looking article discusses the so-called Web 2.0. People, as written above, start to spend more time on the Internet; blogging, facebooking, commenting on articles with alternative names in order to stay anonymous. The option of commenting articles or YouTube videos  have made a new phenomenon famous, Internet fights. In other words; people arguing online, because they can’t get along with each other.

As a little conclusion of what the Internet and the Web 2.0 (as the Silicon Valley people calls it) has brought us on the subject of internet argumenting. I think this picture is awesome!

Thank you for reading

This is Nahir signing off

Copyright or not copyright, that’s the question

Well here we are, in Sweden the land of the “lagom”. Those of you who do not know what “lagom” means HERE you go. Not too much, but not too little either, kind of.

This time the Swedish government has sidestepped the “lagom” rule. Instead they have become the dogs of the Hollywood companies. Sentencing hundreds of thousands Swedish Kronor to people who can’t even pay their rent. Hunting people who are downloading illegal material instead of chasing the real criminals – child molesters, rapists and murderers – is what they are doing and after doing this, having the guts to cry about the lack of assets in front of the cameras.

What the average Swede is doing, downloading stuff on the internet is not the right thing to do. In fact, I support companies such as Spotify, Voddler etcetera who are giving everybody an opportunity to stay on the right side of the law. But I also understand those of us who downloads. I blame all greedy people for that; SF, who practically has monopoly on the cinemas in Sweden, can set any price they want. This of course leads to a decreasing number of visitors and we have ourselves a cycle where SF needs to set a higher price on the cinema tickets. Also the music business is what has turned this non-existing problem to a real issue. I can’t see why an album, containing about 15 tracks, can cost more than 100 SEK. It’s not like the musicians are working their butts off for making those tracks. In fact, unknown artists have a bigger chance to get famous by this downloading “issue”. If the internet and BitTorrent technology wouldn’t have existed, Timbuktu (Swedish rapper) wouldn’t be doing what he does today.

Everything that I have mentioned above does of course not justify illegal actions, but a little bit of understanding from both sides would solve this problem and instead the police could chase those who deserve to be chased.

Help, nerds are conquering our world!

Bill Gates and his buddy conquered the entire world; Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company and the story about the Big Blue computer. This is what we get to reflect upon while watching the Triumph of the Nerds documentary. I was personally very impressed by the devoted work Bill Gates & co. gave their passion – hacking computers. Thanks to mentioned Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, among others, the 21st century will probably be the era of the computers.

The documentary makes me think about what our generation’s computer boom is or will be. What is or will be considered the ultimate nerd occupation of our time in 30 years? I guess that we will have to wait patiently for 30 years or more in order to find the answer.

Question!: What do YOU think will be invented or in which subject area do you think the invention will be active in?

Feel free to comment!

Hej… I mean hi

So this is where I’ll try to write something that isn’t complete rubbish. To be continued…

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