I’ve always wondered how we’re going to survive as a species if we keep killing off our enemies and they keep killing us. I’ve wondered how our planet is going to survive the abuses we wreak on it like the fracking that is slowly causing our land to open up, engulfing property and lives in newly created vast sinkholes. And I keep thinking how our overindustrialized cities are putting such hardship on our planet and depleting our natural resources. And …
As a very private person who, not surprisingly, is also an introvert, I keep wondering at the pull that social media sites have on the majority of people. I realize that most people want to feel loved and accepted, and they also want to feel that they are included in whatever everyone else is doing. I once made an experiment. All right, I made that experiment several times, not just once. I had been involved in some relationships where I …
A couple of years ago, Gabi Gregg, a fashion blogger, coined the term, Fatkini, as a way to encourage women to share pictures of their real bodies in bikinis, and not to let shame keep them from enjoying themselves at the beach or at a pool. In her blog, she wrote, “I truly encourage you guys to get to the beach (or a pool) this summer – don’t let body shame keep you from having a good time.” And now, …
Can you imagine seeing your sex life documented on a spreadsheet? How would you react to seeing a record kept by your spouse that you had turned him down twenty-seven times over the last couple of months, only allowing him in your bed three times? Apparently, a frustrated 26-year-old man felt he had no other recourse than to communicate his dissatisfaction with his sex life than to document how many times his wife turned him down for sex over a …
There is something so fundamentally wrong about the new laws that are being passed in most states regarding revenge porn. Lawmakers are trying to criminalize the posting of pornographic photos of one’s former spouse or lover on the Internet, after the relationship is over. The women are crying foul and the men are saying that the sexual photos were freely given. If these photos are of girls younger than eighteen, or if the girl was drugged, unconscious, drunk, mentally unstable, …
A friend of mine saw one of my blogs and he emailed me to let me know that he agrees with my observations about the negative affects that modern technology is having on our younger generation but he’s “not sure that because parents are the enablers and have the power to pull the technology that doing so would help.” He went on to say, “These kids are greatly influenced by peer pressure and they certainly are aware of the technology …
We often think of customer service being associated with the salespeople, the billing department, the complaint department, the shipping department, and the technicians in the electronics department. We see them being LIKE’d on Facebook and tweeted on Twitter and we know that social media sites can make the difference between a business succeeding or failing. What most of us never think about is how the delivery services of FEDEX, UPS, and the post office affect our perception of the businesses …
Even when I was young, about a thousand years ago, it was never a good idea to bad-mouth your former employer to your prospective employer. And that was in the old days, long before computers and the Internet came on the scene. We were always told to tell the person who was interviewing you for a job to say something positive about your last job and never to complain about your previous manager or your teammates. No matter what kind …
When you’re sitting in front of your computer, it’s very easy to believe that you are the only one who is reading what you write. And if you’re putting something up on your Facebook page, meant for your best friend and no one else, it’s even easier to think that no one else will see it. In other words, it’s very easy to assume that you have more privacy than you actually have. A study by Columbia University showed 93.8% …
By now everyone has heard of Elan Gale’s phony Thanksgiving Day tweets about Diane, the lady in seat 7A, who was incredibly rude to the flight attendant on their trip to Phoenix. Gale, who is the producer of The Bachelor, says he made up the story to entertain himself and his followers while on a flight that was delayed. He said he didn’t know it had gone viral until late that night. The next morning, on Friday, he realized people …