Article 4: All The Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook By Jenna Wortham

Jenna Wortham, technology reporter from New York Times

 Alright people. It’s time for the fourth entry of my blog .This time I’m about to introduce you a bit more trendy article. Could you guess it? It’s about the world most famous social network site…….. I know you guys had guessed it all along. It’s about Facebook and the article for today entitled “All the Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook” written by Jenna Wortham. The title itself is sure to be interesting to look into as it makes us wander presumably thinking what is meant by cool kid quitting Facebook? To clarify something the article is not related only to kid and teen or whatsoever but to US and our perception toward Facebook. 

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and biggest shareholder in Facebook

Not cool anymore?

Alright, first of all who doesn’t know about Facebook? If so then you must be living under the rock or something because it is estimated about 800 million users registered to participate in the number one social networking site. The main selling point of Facebook is to building closer ties with friends, families and colleagues as well as sharing interest and activities together in under one site. Needless to say its popularity is booming and generates millions to the company and to its founder; Mark Zuckerberg. Albeit popular, New York Times newspaper claims that the number of user is decreasing especially in America itself. Why does this happen? Is Facebook is not a cool place to hang out anymore? Or is the people had enough of Facebook? 

One of the biggest problem of Facebook

 

Let us take a look what causes the dwindling number of users in Facebook. Security problem seems at the top of the list as people are merely spook with the privacy pitfall that lead the hackers and cyber stalkers take advantage on their personal information thus threatening their life. A massive number of spam and scam added with virus is the second one the reason to quit Facebook. But the biggest giver is that addiction to Facebook that lead to the downfall of communication in life are getting serious nowadays until people become socially awkward even to talk to their relatives , friend and don’t get me started on how they react in front of stranger. 

Basically, these cool kids are actually doing something right in their life as addiction to Facebook is only decrease their morality and maybe their health as staring in front of the computer everyday doing nothing but clicking the mouse can result in cardiac arrest and many other chronic disease. So that’s it. Ask yourself this question… I give so much to Facebook but what it gave to me?

Article 3: Men and Women Are Merely Players by Robert Greene

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

On the third post I will comment on the article that sparks awe throughout every neuron cell in my brain as well as plunging my brain into the world of critical thinking and made me wonder till this day. Oopss,forgive my exaggeration there, the article that deserve the nomination is entitled “Men and Women Are Merely Players” written by Robert Greene. Actually the following article is an excerpt from the book, “The 48 Law of Power”. The main ideas of the this article is much separated but the only one that attract me started from the quote of a great Renaissance diplomat and Machiavelli wrote, “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come ruin among the great number who are not good.” Let us find the deeper meaning of the quote, it literally means that people are not an  cannot be 100% good all the time, those tries so will collapse on their effort amongst those who practice hypocrisy as part of their life…or that is how I define that quote. Short story is one cannot be too perfect and must have their flaws. Machiavelli stated that inside everyone lies a dark side that exerts our true emotion upon something. 

Are we the player? Or we just being played?

There’s a good side and a bad side, so how do you manage to handle both?For Muslim ,praying 5 times a day and do many good deeds would settle the problem but easier said than done right? So everyone else include me play the safe game, put on nice face, say nice thing and keep the fiery dark hatred inside…. and that’s how you play hypocrite game. In the game there’s always a good player right? By making a show of one’s weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power.

Who would hate this cute baby?

And this fluffy and adorable kitten?

And......I'm not sure how this picture

 is related

Beware again as being naive doesn’t mean powerless and weak as they can manipulate your thinking and let you believe them as innocent and at the same time pulling the string on you to get what their heart desire. It just seems so wrong but no one seems to put a fight to it as human nature is prone in wanting to protect the weak.Honesty is the best policy seems to be the finest moral ain’t it? Too bad human just stop being human long time ago as modernization rise. Welcome to a world of deceit as they say.