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The Facebook Matrix

Everything in moderation – that includes viewing photos and news about your friends and uploading photos and news of yourself. Of late I have come to realize that if a person spends on average 1 hour per day on a site like facebook starting at age 15 and lives until 90 (not an unreasonable life expectancy), then that person will have spent over three years non-stop on Facebook. Think about what can be accomplished in three years – a college degree, a three year prison term, etc.

Facebook and online social media including the blog you are reading right now are sapping people of time that they would have otherwise hopefully used in a more productive way. This blog, while in my opinion better than Facebook in that it belongs to me, the ads are mine not Facebook’s and much of what I write requires research and learning, is still most likely going to take up at least a year of my life before I’m finished (literally and figuratively).

In essense, what I’m trying to say is next time you want to ‘poke’ someone on Facebook consider driving over and phyiscally giving that person a poke (after considering the legal implications and of course the social acceptability of the action). Next time you decide to peruse someone’s photo album, take a moment and consider whether it’s worth it – perhaps the time would be better spent getting on the ground and doing 50 push-ups.

A few things to consider:

• Facebook will never tell you how many hours you have spent on the site, it would reduce popularity!
• Advertisements can utilize any information you put on Facebook, such as exact age, political party, music interest, religion, etc. in order to fool you into thinking they are specifically catered to you!
• All photos submitted to Facebook may be used by law enforcement, employers, news papers, etc. without your permission – the photos are no longer yours.
• Blackmail – Facebook rarely deletes your information, even if you change or delete it from your profile.
• Profiles are never deleted, they are only archived and put into hibernation until your revive it.

I recently read an article published here about Chinese scientists fully growing mice using their skin cells. They claim that “tremendous good can come from demonstrating the versatility of reprogrammed cells in mice”, angood that can be used to “understand the root causes of disease and lead to viable treatments and cures of human afflictions.”

Rhetoric aside, this means that it is almost certainly possible to create human clones simply using the cells in their skin, or perhaps in the future cloning a person using a cell from anywhere in the body and perhaps even dead cells from the hair! Think of the future of forensic science as clones of murderes can be made to positively identify the criminals or how much easier it would be to have someone look exactly your friend by simply picking up their stray hairs and going to the local cloning facility! Of course all of these will have their respective ‘ethical’ barriers but would still be possible and most likley realizable. Both sides have their merits, as clones should be granted the same rights as non-clones.

Other possible uses for cloning are simply cloning humans for organ collection or mass production of short-lived ’supersoldiers’.

Schwarzenegger boasts knife on Twitter video

So far Arnold has acted professionally when dealing with California’s budget crisis. However, recently he posted a video on Twitter claiming that he will autograph cars, and asked his internet followers to offer more ideas that will help save the state money.