You’re one of those old people, aren’t you?
Always living in the past, telling those young punks of today how easy they have it now. You begin every sentence with, “oh yeah, well back in MY day, we didn’t have the Internet. And we LIKED it!”
So time marches on – it happens.
We can all agree that all sorts of things have changed over the past 50 years for sure, but even more so in the last 5-10 years.
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You know how typically “Dad” is considered the primary breadwinner in most households, while “Mom” typically manages the home and kids?
Well, what if Web Watch told you that dollar-for-dollar, Mom is worth more than Dad is?
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A few months back, Web Watch told you about how Hemingway chose to write: be as concise as possible, don’t say in six words what you say in five.
Storytelling – whether it be written or verbal, for fun or for profit – is not something that comes naturally to everyone. It’s another reason why public speaking can be so difficult, as well. People naturally like to wander in their conversations, and becoming laser-focused on what you’re trying to say is a skillset that not everyone has.
Why take 20 minutes to tell a story when you can say the same thing in five minutes? You can always expand on what you’re talking about, especially as part of a continued conversation. But don’t give everything away on your own – your audience will become quickly bored.
So what should you do?
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Getting fired is like a rite of passage.
Especially in today’s economic climate, if you haven’t been fired or laid off at least once in your professional career, you can consider yourself one of the lucky ones.
How bad is it out there for the unemployed? Web Watch knows a number of people who have had difficulty trying to find a regular full-time job in their career of choice – some of whom are going on five years of unemployment.
Five years is a long-time to sit there and wonder when the economy is going to turn around – but frankly, the issue could be just as likely that the job those job-seekers are looking for isn’t available. There are plenty of jobs to be had — the problem is whether those unemployed are willing to make an industry change, go back to school, or even move across the country if a job prospects are more available elsewhere.
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Do you consider yourself a smart person?
If you’re reading this (or anything on the Internet), one would assume that the answer is “yes”. Only smart people bother to use the Internet — and only the smartest of the smart will read Web Watch.
So “hi!” to all of our smart readers out there.
But seriously, studiest have shown that sometimes what your intelligence level is can be dictated by the environment you surround yourself with. In other words – generally speaking – if you hang out with smart people (or dumb people), then you will eventually become smarter (or dumber) through association.
At the very least, just to keep up with those you hang out with.
But a new study proves this even better…
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Web Watch has covered password hacks like the recent ones at LinkedIn, eHarmony, Last.fm, and others.
We’ll start with the standard recommendation: if you’ve been using one of those sites Web Watch just mentioned, please go and change your password immediately. It’s okay… we’ll wait.
And you’re back…
As a reminder, some of the password suggestions we’ve made in the past can be found here:
and there are others.
So since we’ve already talked about the things that you should do to change your password and how to make a nice strong password, the next question to ask is whether the password you’ve selected is actually strong and unique enough to avoid being hacked.
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Men — How do you feel about your junk? Are you satisfied with what you have?
More importantly – is your partner satisfied with what you have?
Well, new research shows that maybe they aren’t as pleased with what you’re packing as you may think. None of this should really be a surprise to anyone, but when we finally have facts to back up what folks always joked about — now we have something to talk about. Let’s read on…
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Were you one of the lucky ones who decided to buy Facebook stock on opening day?
Lucky, only if you also sold it immediately. If you decided to take a long approach of buy-and-hold, you’re probably cursing the banks and others that drove the IPO price as high as it did.
So it ends up that right now, Facebook doesn’t have a lot of fans. For financial reasons, due to the rapidly declining stock price. For personal reasons, by posting a legally-meaningless “you don’t have rights to access my profile” status update.
Look – it’s quite easy. If you hate everything about Facebook — just stop using it. Life marched on for years without Facebook, and life will continue to exist for you once you stop using it.
People who will only be your friend online and not IRL (that’s “in real life”) were not really your friends. People who beg you to play Words with Friends with them but turn their noses up at playing a real-world game of Scrabble are not those you’d want to play against anyway.
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