‘All Cool Kids are Quitting Facebook ’ is an interesting article written by Jenna Wortham about the current problem stroked
Facebook Inc in United States.She also mentioned about the reasons why Facebook
is losing the users coming out with few evidence to support her
statement.Eventhough the reason seems valid , Only millions of other Facebook
user can prove it whether Facebook is causing a lot of troubles or not.
According to her ,privacy
concern has become one of the crucial problem faced by the Facebook
users.Nevertheless.Privacy
matter is all about the user’s preferences to set their security level either
high or to make all their information in the profile visible to other
users.Thus it should be no problem exist since everything is up to the
particular user.Facebook
team itself has set the guidelines and terms and condition for the users to
follow in order to keep their confidential things such as pictures or status
update to be safe.Hence , it is all depend on the customer to follow the rules
or not
She also mentioned that Facebook has created great gap between a
user and her bestfriend . That person blamed
Facebook for that reason and as a result , she quitted Facebook.However Facebook
should not solely be blamed because the users themselves should have the
initiative to meet their friends or have a small conversation to maintain their
close relationship and not only rely on Facebook for their medium to interact
with each other.Apart from that this thing happened
because of the user’s expectation where they expect Facebook to be the
bestagentto make their relationship with friends and
family stronger.Whenever the outcome is not what they expect , they put the
blame on Facebook
As conclusion , i do not agree with her because we only tend to see other's mistake rather than seeing our errors.Why do we need to put the blame on Facebook when the person who did the wrong things is us.
‘Men and Women are Merely Players’ is an interesting article where human being are merely impersonator and everyone owns their particular roles for them to execute in life. Robert Greene advocated that every human being is following the formulated roles that has been set up standardize by social ideas.However , if we follow the rules faithfully,we are going to be manipulated by the mastermind who crave for power and live in pretending.
The world nowadays require everyone to be polite,ethical,democratic and moderate in daily life.Thus ,one is discouraged to follow the rules or play their own roles too strictly as this will trigger the mastermind to manipulate one’s thinking in order to get power.
In order to obtain total authority and domination, an individual needs to master the skills to seduce ,fraudulence ,deceive and carefully maneuver the opponents to make them give the power without them realizing it.
In the article , the author warn the reader to be careful with people that convey their thoughts allegedly because usually,they are adept impersonator at power by using the clever strategies to deceive others.
Certain individual that claimed they are neutral and do not involve in playing any roles can the most adept deceit as they use certain motives to cover their pretentiousness in dominating power.Normal people and naivete’ also could not escape from the temptation of being powerful, but their crave for power are not as extreme as those masterminds since they are not hindered by reflection.
The rule of ten that Mr Mark taught me.This is the compulsory things that I need to include in doing my assignments.I find this Rule of 10 is very hard and complicated , but I will do my best in my assignment soon.
1) Topic – ithe significance or general information about the subject
2) Content – brief summary or gist of what the subject matters
3) Source – who the wrote the article /subject
4) Audience – expected /target audience who will read the article
5) Rhetorical function – what is the function of the whole passage
6) Purpose – The purpose of the article written
7) Perspective – The perspective , contains premises ,argument
8) Positioning – the criticize or argument about the subject matter
9) Impact – what is the impact and effect of reading the article to the audience
10) Visual literacy – the picture’s implicit and explicit meanings.
This is a video about Steve Jobs . Despite the rumours about him acted badly and brutally to his workers and people around him,probably we should also remember his good deeds and also his contribution to human nation.As we all know , we are human race and we will never be a perfect person and everyone makes mistakes and everyone has the right to change for the better.. Let us watch this video and take the good things that come from his. Shall we?
What day is today? its Fry-dayyyy!! Actually iam very tired at this moment because i just got back home , but since i have to finish my blog posting , i am going to pour all my leftover strength.
I am going to write about an article, 'The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew'. by Jeff Goodell.Jeff Godell is an acclaimed author,investigator journalist and a former employee's of Apple.Isssued in the Rolling Stone megazine , You can refer the partial of the article shown below.
The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew
How an insecure, acid-dropping hippie kid reinvented himself as a technological visionary and changed the world .By Jeff Goodell
When I first met Steve Jobs, I thought he was a loser. It was 1980, and I was just a Silicon Valley kid who knew nothing about computers. I had gotten a job at this little computer company near my house called Apple because my mom worked there. It was based in what looked like an abandoned dentist’s office on Bandley Drive in Cupertino, just a block or two from Apple’s current headquarters. Jobs was 25 at the time, and what I remember about him is how he would storm around the office, yelling, and how he wore tattered jeans, and how everyone seemed to be afraid of him. I knew his type: uneducated, blustery, a guy who thinks a lot of himself. At the time, I had no idea what computers would amount to and no idea that this guy would turn out to be one of the greatest visionaries of our time. To me, he just seemed like a lost hippie kid, and I was not terribly interested. After less than a year at Apple, I left to go on to more exciting things, like dealing blackjack in Lake Tahoe.
It was only a few years before I understood exactly what I had walked away from. Jobs not only turned Apple into the most valued company in the world, worth an estimated $342 billion, he rewrote the rules of business, combining Sixties idealism with greed-is-good capitalism. At a time when software was the model, he built hardware. At a time when everyone focused on the macro, he focused on the micro. He never did anything first, but he did it best. More than anyone else on the planet, he is responsible for fusing the human realm with the digital, for giving us the ability to encode our deepest desires and most intimate thoughts with the touch of a finger. “He’s the Bob Dylan of machines,” says Bono, who knew Jobs for years. “He’s the Elvis of the hardware-software dialectic.”
But, god, he could be a dick. Those who knew Jobs best and worked with him most closely – and I have talked to hundreds of them over the years – were always struck by his abrasive personality, his unapologetic brutality. He screamed, he cried, he stomped his feet. He had a cruelly casual way of driving employees to the breaking point and tossing them aside; few people ever wanted to work for him twice. When he fathered a daughter with his longtime girlfriend Chrisann Brennan at age 23, he not only denied his paternity, he famously trashed Brennan in public, telling Time in 1983 that “28 per cent of the male population of the United States could be the father.” His kinder side would only emerge years later, after he had been kicked around, beaten up, humbled by life. He grew up poor, an adopted kid who felt cast aside by his birth parents, feeling scrawny and teased and out of place, and he remained deeply insecure for most of his life, certain that it would not last long.
“Steve always had that James Dean, live-fast, die-young thing,” says Steve Capps, one of the key programmers on the first Apple Macintosh. As they worked late into the night to design and build the device that would revolutionize personal computing, Jobs would talk about death a lot. “It was a little morbid,” Capps recalls. “He’d say, ‘I don’t want to be 50.’ ” Brennan recalls Jobs making similar comments when he was only 17. “Steve always believed he was going to die young,” Brennan says. “I think that’s part of what gave his life such urgency. He never expected to live past 45.”
In 2005, not long after he was diagnosed with the cancer that would eventually kill him, Jobs gave a now-famous commencement address at Stanford University in which he hailed death as “very likely the single best invention of life,” one that “clears out the old to make way for the new.” Perhaps it was not unexpected that Jobs, the archetype of the modern inventor, would conceive of death in such terms – as if life itself were an idea that had been hacked together by a larger, more powerful version of himself in some big garage in the sky. But if death is life’s greatest invention, the greatest invention of Steve Jobs was not the iPod or the iPhone or the iPad. It was Steve Jobs. Before he could alter the landscape of the world as he found it, he first had to design and assemble the Jobs the world would come to idolize. “Steve was a shallow, narcissistic person who became more fully developed emotionally as he went along,” says John Perry Barlow, a digital pioneer and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead who knew Jobs for several decades. “He created a lot of great hardware, but over the years, he also invented himself.
When i was in the middle of my secondary school , one of my friend owns an Iphone.It was the first generation of Iphone and on that time , the price was exquisitely expensive , approximately in the range of RM 2-2.5k.This was the first time i saw a very spectacular gadget and somehow , i kept wondering why would people buy it despite the expensive price.Well , that was years back then and now , after generation over generation Iphone has become the 'king' in the customers' lists.Not only the Iphone , but other gadgets manufactured by Apple Inc such as the Macintosh computer lines , Ipod and the newest , Ipad are also in the first place between the comsumer.
Enough with the gadget's talk , lets get back to the business.Regarding the article above , i hardly able to accept all the details and statements mentioning the badness and meanness of late Steve Jobs.Supported with all the 'evidence' by the writer , this piece of work probably would make the readers despise Steve Jobs.But do not worry ,head's up to those who really appreciates him because in this world , there is no one who really knows other person well , and do not be surprised , the one who claimed knows other person so well, sometimes they dont even know themselves entirely .Ironic? that's life .
How can a human that is already gone can be criticized and bashed that bad?.Well ,maybe there are some conspiracy behind this.Who knows?.
The author , Jeff Goddell , stated that Steve Jobs had an abrasive personality,an unforgiven brutality and also, he was a control freak that who seeks the perfection and originality in every details.Look , in my opinion , who we are to judge human, and who we are to judge Steve Jobs that has contributes a lot in technology.Furthermore , there's an old saying that there is no one who is perfect in this world and i believe that in order to balance human's life , we need to give and take.Take it easy everyone , Jobs was just a normal human being like us.
On the contrary , let's look from different view of Steve Jobs.It is an undeniable facts.
He gave opportunity thousands of job offers in technology , manufacturing Apple's products.
He shifted the world's paradigm,
Indirectly , his innovation contributes a lot in print and publishing industries
and many more that i could list down.
Here is a video that i want my readers to watch and an excerpt about Jobs.
Despite all those brutality , he owns the good side of humanity . He thanked all his employees.
"Mona Simpson, Steve Jobs’s sister, published her eulogy for her brother in The New York Times today. The piece is the most touching, intimate tribute to Steve we’ve seen since his passing.
An excerpt:
Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto. His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us.
He started his farewell and I stopped him. I said, “Wait. I’m coming. I’m in a taxi to the airport. I’ll be there.”
“I’m telling you now because I’m afraid you won’t make it on time, honey.”
When I arrived, he and his Laurene were joking together like partners who’d lived and worked together every day of their lives. He looked into his children’s eyes as if he couldn’t unlock his gaze.
Until about 2 in the afternoon, his wife could rouse him, to talk to his friends from Apple.
Then, after awhile, it was clear that he would no longer wake to us.
His breathing changed. It became severe, deliberate, purposeful. I could feel him counting his steps again, pushing farther than before.
This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.
Ironically, why those side of Jobs were not stated in the article? . I wonder.After all ,people who kept throwing or bashing Jobs in any possible ways did that maybe because they have not achieved anything close to what Jobs had and more likely than not , they never will.And believe me , eventhough this article might divert some people's view on Jobs , millions more people who appreciate him and his inventions cried at the loss of this 'complex human being".
This is a very exceptional video about what is critical thinking.I was once never knew that i already applied the critical thinking in my life previously in dealing problems which were massive and huge problems. It was like the blessing in disguise.However it was not something that i can label as thinking critically because in critical thinking, there are the principles and the characteristics that you need to fulfill in order for you to become a competent and reliable critical thinker .
For me , i have read many books and browsed pages of websites that wrote about what is critical thinking and the standard of thinking critically.What has come to my mind is questions and questions that keeps questioning me. Who is the pioneer in critical thinking and also how ones can be sure about the truth or solution that they obtained after they applied the thinking?.Another question popped in my mind is with the characteristics , standard and things related that had been set by human themselves , how far are the prescriptions given will ensure the outcome that human get is the best and realistic . Hurmm ?
From my point of view,critical thinking usually can be understood in different understanding. It happens because human think different ways and absorbs information in own unique's ways.Further more different kind of thinking are the greatest gift from God.Some might say critical thinking is when you think critically to solve the problems and some others might say critical thinking is when you use the ability of your brain to the maximum point , where you think in all possible views.But for me, i could not sum up a definition of critical thinking for myself. In general , i would say critical thinking is a very efficient and practical way of thinking but , somehow i only prefer to use this kind of thinking in a certain situation only because i believe that in life , we do not really want to know the real and 'brutal' truth but we want the truth that ourselves believe it is the truth .
Before i entered this critical literacy class, all i know about hemisphere was merely earth that is divided by the hemisphere, or maybe what people used to say south pole and north pole of the earth.Basically, when my lecturer was explaining about the left and right side , i had a vague imagination about those things in my mind until he explained it further.
Let us get back to the gist , what is left hemisphere and right hemisphere? According to the master of thinker in my college , Sir Mark and from what i understand , left and right in critical literacy are the concept that used in explaining our thoughts . There are many ways to explain this right and left brain but i rather explain it from my point of view and from what i obtained .
Next ,to be simplified about this , i have created a formula for myself . However , it might not be a genuine and authentic from me, but the way people learn and illustrate things that they got while learning are particularly different from others . I better stop nagging about this and start writing my recipe of this
concept.
Left Brain
- using your own opinion and thoughts.
-you decide yourself either that particular thing that you are analysing or evaluating are right or wrong using your own judgement based on the logic thinking ,
-it is related with our intrapersonal skills
Right Brain
-you are emphatic,tuned compassion and fellow-feelings with all things
-when you are thinking with right brain , you will think about others , it is like you have connection with the subject or object that you need to think.
Tadaa! well , it wasn't really a secret recipe , but it is the recipe that i emulate in my life , it is not really my whole life but ever since i knew this left and right brain i am able to categorize things that i think everyday! Thank you to my MIT ( Master In Thinking)
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