Facebook with friends has taken over the world

If you don´t have the phenomenon called Facebook, then does you really exist out there on the thing called WWW?? (or maybe MySpace or another networking place). I have friends I never talk to and doesn´t even notice anymore because they are not on my ”wall” or in the newsfeed. If they are, then I can connect to them so much easier.

I once worked at a high school as a teacher. My students were 17-18 years old. And now, a couple of years later I meet some of them at the nightclubs almost every weekend. And they added me as their friend on Facebook. That´s okay with me, but I don´t think I would have the same reaction if they still where my students…and I don´t think my students would want me to see what they are up to on their spare time…

Nowadays people say and do anything on their blogs and Facebook profiles. I think it´s great, but when will this fad to be over? maybe never… and I´m amazed by all these people spending hours and hours out there doing…well…whatever! Doesn´t people have jobs, girlfriends or maybe a dog to spend their time on? Obviously SOMEBODY put all of these movies on YouTube It´s not me though, and not anyone I know, I think, well maybe my freaky longhaired neighbor who always has the blinds down

What I do know, is that I will keep enjoying all of these people on my wall writing that “tomorrow I´m going to Ullared” until nobody else does. I´m just cattle, moving in the same direction as my fellow cowfriends.

With ideas from: Time´s person of the year: You. And: Facebook dumbing friendships down?

 

COPY,COPY good? bad?

I have never downloaded anything, ever. I don’t know how to do it and I never wanted to learn either. I´m just not that interested in music or movies. Well, if one of my friends had a movie on his or hers computer, or a new song or something like that, then of course I watched it or listened to it. So I´m not a pirate…or well maybe…because I took part of it somehow, I just didn’t download it myself.  So the people dancing to the music made by the Guys in Brazil, the Techno Brega Dudes, are they pirates too? The dudes just  sample popular songs, and mix them so they sound better….or worse…depends on your personal taste…and then they put a DJ somewhere and let him play the “new” hitsongs…they call it Techno Brega and people love it. Then they sell the CD´s, make a tour around Brazil and get rich. Not a bad idea. J  The bad side to it would be that the singers and songwriters don’t get their share of the cake.

But that’s not even a real problem…come on! I mean, if an artist makes a song and then it goes out in the public, it plays on the radio, in stores and over internet worldwide, then my personal opinion is that it belongs to the public. They buy the CD´s and hear the songs everywhere, every day. We go to concerts and the artist gets paid just to show up in a nightclub or in a TV-program.  And then all the merchandises that comes with it. Stop whining! Of course you need copyright laws. But just to download a song isn’t that bad. I think.

Copyright is so big, everything is copyrighted. Every song, picture, movie, photo..everything. And its illegal to use any of them. Its hard to do anything. And what about Facebook? All of the pictures out there all of a sudden belong to everybody that’s tagged? Or does the picture belong to the person who put it there? Or maybe Facebook itself have all the rights? Something to think about..

The Triumph of the Nerds

It was a enlightning little movie about nerds and their brains and machines They talk about their nerdiness and how they simply don’t have time to eat, have a girlfriend or even just go out in the sun, because they only want to program, drink coke, program and well..program. And when other people see a problem they see a challenge. Amazing brains and a passion for technical things make a success. Just to sit around thinking and poke at a machine would drive me crazy, I wouldn’t make a very good nerd…and I don’t like cola…

The young Bill Gates was really funny to see, he is a nerd to the bone! I wonder if his wife is hot?

And I just love the fact that a multimillionare sits there in his big retro glasses, hawaiishirt and beard talking about the success with Apple, that the money didn’t matter, because he just wanted to program… Who knew it would be so big! I hope that the nerds of today still have stuff to discover and invent. Don’t go out and get a girlfriend, just program! Then I´m sure we´ll have some more amazing and practical technology to use in the future.

so this is a blog

well well…lets do this then…