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Friday, September 24, 2010

The End of Facebook

Facebook is one of he most popular web services nowadays. It has surpassed Myspace and Friendster in dramatic ways. Facebook entered the social networking arena late. First it was friendster and then myspace and several years have passed before facebook rose and eventually surpassed the two pioneers of this field. When facebook became popular, friendster and myspace didn't have this microblogging functionallity which let users post updates or post whatever is on their minds. This breakthogh functionality made facebook popular and even more useful. It gives users a way to shout out their feelings and thoughts to their friends in one or two sentences. When this was introduced, I was so addicted that I even post my private activities. I was also addicted to reading posts from my friends.

It was fun until I I got tired of scrolling, clicking and following my friends' messages. I realized that I had so many friends already and no matter what I did I could no longer read all of their messages. I even felt that I was already wasting my time. Yes, it is really a waste of time reading posts from your friends because most of them just post whatever comes to their mind. However the main reason why ths update functionality of facebook is doomed is the fact that a single user has limited capacity. A user can only read no more than 100 messages per session. This is called information overload - the classic problem humans suffer in the nformation age. Though computers are fast and have large capacity, humans are so limited. We don't have the energy and time to read all the messages of 500 or more friends. Today, I no longer open my facebook account to read those messages. Even the last time I checked it, new real time messages from my friends come up almost every minute. I just don't have the time to read them. I believe that in years to come there will be no one using this facebook functionality.

Manila Philippines Hostage Taking Scandal Video! Very Scandalous!

The hostage taking inciddent that happpened in Quirino grand stand is very scandalous that I call it the Manila Philippines Hostage Taking Scandal ! The video is all over net which give it the most scandalous video that ever happened in the Philippines or even in the whole world! It is not only the most scandalous video, it is laso the most shameful video that I've seen in my entire life. In fact, it is more scandalous and shameful than the katrina Hayden Kho Scandal!

What is so shameful and scandalous about this event is not only that it has busted the myth about swat teams in the Philippines but that the hostage taker was policeman! This incident will surely kill the present ailing tourism indstry. It ha sent a msssage to the world that no one can be trusted in the Philippines. Even a police could be your hostage taker. Corrupt police could be tolerable but a police who takes hostage is abssolutely not.

And who is to blame for this mess? Gloria Arroyo and not Pres. Noynoy Aquino. P-noy has simply inherited an incompetent SWAT team under the previous administration! Where did all the funds go for PNP modernation? Aren't SWAT teams supposed to train monthly or every two monnths? Everytime I watch this video over and over I can't stop but say how stupid the police has become. Our police is the most incompetent police in the world! We have to change. I hope P-noy would do everything he could to modernize the PNP so that this shameful and scandalous incident will never happen again.

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