so facebook buys instagram, deal with it

Courtesy of cbsnews.com

after the news of facebook splashing cash on instagram,
I realised that there were still romantic fanatics of software, applications and services…

that’s cute and that’s so 90s.

probably they either believe that the service or application belongs to them, or that they are a part of something bigger and greater.
and the problem with it is that neither of them is true.

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how social media can harm unpopular kids even more

there is an interesting piece on teenvogue (don’t ask how i found it) and it has a rather interesting point of view on social media websites. if you are a loser, and somehow your class-mates friended you on facebook, you followed them on twitter and whatever else the kids are doing nowadays, now there is the technology to feel being left-out to the max.

things like the one below is probably seen pretty much:

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istanbul’un işgali (1918-1923)

istanbulun-isgali-1918-1923

kitabın adı:
istanbul’un işgali (1918-1923)
(history and background of occupation of istanbul by the allied forces, between years 1918 and 1923)

satıldığı yerler:
[Doğu Kitabevi], [D&R], [idefix], [kitapyurdu]

konusu:
doğu sorunu. temel sorun doğu sorunu. yani doğu-batı çatışmasında batının doğuya verdiği isim. ortada bir sorun olduğundan değil, aralarında bahsederken “doğu meselesi” diye geçiyor. doğu meselesi de değil aslında. batı dışı meselesi. yani aslında meseleyi batı yaratıyor. önce meseleyi yaratıyor. sonra da diyor ki bunlar medeni değil yeterince. bunlara medeniyet götürmek lazım. bunları özgürleştirmek lazım. yani? yani bizim oralara gitmemiz ve bunları sağlamamız lazım, onları hizaya sokmamız lazım, bizim de görevimiz bu. sonra? sonra işte gelip işgal ediyorlar. istanbul’u da işgal etmişler. ben de onu yazdım.

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an open letter to social media director of “me”

effective immediately, i have fired my previous social media relations director; “me“,

for he has been ruining my future reputation and present believability via managing my social media messages (twitter, facebook etc.) upon reflecting my views on various subjects using phrases and effects, including, but not limited to “oh yeah, wonderfuuull, holy crap!, wow maaan, cool, check diz out, incomiiing, fire in the hooolee, chamon m8, lolz…”.

for his position a new social media director will be recruited; “me 2.0“.

this new professional, will try to manage the process as I would talk:

  • at a dinner table of a party, where I am invited as a first time guest, no, actually as a plus one of a friend who is a good friend of the party’s host,
  • at a symposium, where during the talk I both try to shine,  and try not to look needy of attention and ambitious at the same time,
  • at an office where I just start working and everyone is neither my foe, nor my friend and most possibly I want all to stay the same,
  • at a job interview, where while trying to impress the interviewer about my specialties, only carefully exaggerating to the limit, where I will not be held responsible for the time-consuming duties out of the boundaries of the job description,
  • at a first date with the dream woman/man,
  • at any one night stand with a regular (non-dream) woman/man,
  • at a newspaper stand when meeting with / introduced to a stranger, not giving too much information about myself (eg. i peed every night in my sleep till i’m 16), but giving enough to keep them interested (eg. once i pulled a jet fighter with my teeth),
    (the second one has to be craftfully inserted into the dialog, well, actually, this goes for the first one too…)
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an open letter to hipster photographers

what if, your children and their children, won’t be hipsters?
what if, one day you resign from hipsterdom?

then when you look back to all those wonderful glory days, what will you see?

unrecognizable fish eye views of many things you did, many places you went, many trendy clothes you had, distorted, and not even delightful to a real fish’s eye.

what else?
* scratched, torn, color degraded, low resolution photos of many daily objects of absolutely no significance,
* many many (probably very meaningful for you at the time, but not so meaningful for the mankind) close-ups of your friends’ body parts overlayed by a window, a parking lot, a watermelon,
* and also many boring photos of your pets in a garden, with your foot, on a watermelon.

you even paid for those films, and for processing them.
and even much more for strange funny toy cameras.

you had your fun.
its time to take real pictures with a real digital camera.

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update: for those who take the same photos with their phones and apps, you’re fine, at least you didn’t pay anything for it. you’ll just have bazillions of them. don’t try to organize them, it’s useless.

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civilization is against evolution

Civilization is working against evolution.
Civilized human being definitely does not mean an evolved one. Evolution of mankind has to be untraceably, unnoticably slow, if there is any. We can not have an idea on whether we are evolving or not. We can have an idea of evolution from cave-men to city-men. That is because it covers a timespan of several thousand years.

We can says human beings are evolving if after a thousand years, that is if we haven’t already destroyed mankind, someone will look back at the documents and say “We have a bigger brains, smaller feet, supplementary gills, bigger eyes, and wider nostrils. The humans a thousand years ago didn’t have these.” That is of course only the biological aspect of the subject. Which actually only develops against natural causes and/or obstacles, not with what we want. Of course we may want to fly. But this ability will only improve after generations and generations of humans being exposed to some kind of natural disaster or change in gravity and/or air composition that will leave us no other option but to fly.

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living by values and having integrity is against nature

Living by values and having integrity is against nature. Nature solves everything using the easiest way possible. Stream finds the slope to join the river in the easiest way possible. Animals hunt the easiest food they can catch. The same principle goes for humans too.

Corruption and scam is the easiest way for a human being to solve his issues. And therefore it is the natural way. Therefore it was always there. Throughout the history it was right there helping man solve his troubles. Assasinating their kings, bribing princes, overthrowing governments, looting civilizations, modernizing other people and so…

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