Is Facebook for the old generation?
31.03.09 / News from all over / Author: Kevster / Comments: (0)
Since its inception in 2004, it seems that Facebook has been really built for the old generation. The newer websites like Plurk aren’t really “oldie friendly”- because the approach to networking is just too different from the friendly and “traditional” means provided by Facebook.
For those older than thirty, Facebook isn’t really about meeting new friends- it’s about keeping business networks intact, and remembering friend’s electronic mail addresses. In fact, Facebook has become so indispensable to the older generation that people who have been on this network don’t usually look for other things to work with; like Twitter.
According to news reports, the Encore, a large hotel smack in the middle of Las Vegas would be cutting room rates and such- but won’t be cutting down on services. From a lofty $350 a night, the company that had built Encore has decided that $165 would be sufficient compensation.
A new restaurant in Taiwan is actually serving food on plates on small toilet bowls. To add to this surprising use of toilet replicas, the food looks the part of human excretions. Young patrons of the restaurant squeal in delight when they see the pink and brown rolls of food served on top of the toilet replicas.
It seems that the current slew of controversies as to what Barack Obama would possibly do with the crisis is now affecting how health care reforms are being enacted in the country. According to news reports, the health reforms themselves are being met with brutal opposition with activists who say that such measures are unsustainable.
With the advent of the Internet and other means of getting news, actual newsprints are feeling the adverse effects of our newfound independence on the electronic media. Not only are we getting the news straight from the sources, sometimes in increments of a few hours, but we’re no longer buying newspapers on a daily basis.
While the United States and other heavily industrialized countries are experiencing sharp downturns since last year, Brazil seems to be just riding the low crests and keeping a low profile. According to a study funded by the OECD, Brazil is actually quite healthy despite the global downturn.
Did you know that in the United States, we actually have undercover animal investigators? These folks often run the show from their own pockets (meaning, they spend their own money) but nonetheless, the results have been staggering.
New Jersey is not particularly known for good shopping experiences. But nonetheless, something is literally rising from upon the once barren meadows: a gigantic structural complex called Xanadu.
We’re all for the right kinds of reform and religious freedom, but we’re also after individual liberty, and we’d like to protect this kind of freedom at all costs. In Iraq, some mothers are actually acting like pimps for their children. Now, this is just wrong. Parents are supposed to be guardians in the least, not the ones who would actually bring down harm to children.
For the longest time, lovers of the old bard’s works were thinking that somewhere, somehow, a likeness of the one of the most prolific writers in the English language would have survived the test of time to witness the adoration of the modern crowds.