Social Training

Facebook is great platform for having a social network. It is so far the best plat form out there which enables people to share information easliy. when people are living in a global connected world. Facebook platform becomes an important tool for people to share information at a speed of light. I use Facebook almost every day to know what my friends are doing in different parts of the world and it also helps me to do effective communication with all of them instantly.

If life were to be so simple then nobody would have compalined about the Facebook. But i see totally different social structure in real world.you might have friends who you know them in student life, work, college and also through another friend and since then you might have never met. Now suddenly you are connected through Facebook and can instantly interact.

In your mind you have the same old picture and memories of that person. but because the time has past by, he might have a changed a lot.He might NOT be the same old buddy who used to chat and share all the information as earlier. For some reason if you do not know this, Facebook can be evil and can create more harm than good.

Like wise there are various things in Facebook where people sometime put a funny photo/video/comment and expect no witty answers on them. As we know the word "funny" is a relative term and varies from person to person. It would get misunderstood more often than otherwise. And things get worse when people are interacting from two different parts of world and that too in different time zones.

How should one handle this and what caution one needs to take so that you are socially responsible in the social networking platform.

1. Do not comment on anything/anyone unless you meet that person on day to day basis. Things can be sorted out very quickly when you meet him very next day.

2. In case you comment on somebody or some picture/video and if you do not see any response even after 24 hours just go ahead and remove your comment immediately. This way you will be telling the other person that your comments was unintentional.

3. if you are in a habit of commenting then unsubscribe those people who do not want your comments. This way you can stay away from commenting on such people. (I hope Facebook provides a feature where you can get a stream with no comments option). if required if you can always go to their profile anytime time and see what they are doing and also send messages.

4.Sometime if you feel like commenting but do not want to comment because of the above issues. Just hit the like button.

5. Even though Facebook is designed to stay in touch with all of your friends, in real life things do not work that way. Facebook servers as a better tool to interact with friends near you and acts as a address book/email system/news feed for distant friends.

Reviews

Are you sick and tried of people who compare the skills of talented people in arts, science, technology, sports etc of different generations.It is like comparing apples and oranges. if you read the comparison it is always biased and the winner will be of current generation if the reviewer is much younger and vice verse if the reviewer is older.In my mind i think it is totally unfair to compare anybody irrespective of field and generation.unless the people you are comparing are contemporary people and playing field for both of them is exactly the same.

when people compare Sachin Tendular to Don Bradman, i think of that reviewer to be nuts. Because it is impossible to come to concrete conclusion who is the better player. And when you look at the Sachin with his  contemporary  players.some people still have doubts about he being greatest versus others. if that is the case how can you compare somebody from totally different generation. There will always be so many parameters and attributes which would contribute in favor of these players for that particular generation. So there fore it is  impossible to compare anybody of any skill. Unfortunately people still compare and always come out with a biased conclusions.

Talking about movies, there are different actors and actress of different generation who have acted in  different stories and under different conditions and people. But people still compare here too. it is literally comparing Apples to wood or glass.
when people compare SRK with Amitabh. i do not see any logic. both of them are from different generation and younger generation no matter what like SRK and older people relate the same to Amitabh. And things gets interesting when SRK does the copy of the same movie of Amitabh with better visual and sound effect. which make the reviewer to be biased because he is morphed with the other parameters and attributes. which never existed during Amitabh days.

Same things do emerge when we compare scientists, politicians , artists etc. so it is good not to compare thing which do not have same level playing fields. Other wise you will get a biased opinion.

I see all these comparing people is more to increase the commercial values of a particular person and for marketing purpose. If you release a article about Sachin tendular that he is the greatest cricketer ever just before the Australian series. marketing people think that they could get more commercial and thus more viewership. And same is true when SRK is declared as the best actor ever when his new movie Don 2 gets released across the world.

Bottom line is these reviews are not well thought and it is always biased and intended for commerical purpose. So therefore one should always keep in mind when quoting these reviews as reference points for any kind of conclusion.