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10 Reasons to Always Check-In EVERYWHERE on FaceBook

Posted by admin on 10/23/2011 | 0 Comments

Have you been seeing facebook postings from your friends that tell you where they are at the moment? Some people use this ‘check-in’ feature occasionally and others are checking-in on a regular basis at every location they end up at during the day. If you’ve been wondering why some people feel that they need to always check-in EVERYWHERE on facebook, here are ten of the reasons.

1. It’s cool! - Isn’t that the biggest and best reason for doing anything? Everybody else is doing it, so you might as well join in the fun and let people know all the places you go to eat or go on vacation, right?
2. Meet-ups – How many times have you missed a chance to connect with someone, just because the two of you didn’t realize that you were in the same place at the same time? Checking-in on facebook can create some great meet-up opportunities that you might miss otherwise.
3. Alibi – Where were you? Constant facebook check-ins can eliminate the need to answer or verify that question. Just tell the person to keep their eye on your facebook status and they’ll never have to ask that question again.
4. Promote your favs – If you have a favorite coffee shop, restaurant or vacation destination,  wouldn’t you want to give them some extra promotion by letting your friends know just how often you go there?
5. Promote yourself – If you want to promote yourself as being a mover and a shaker, you can easily show that by where you’re checking-in. It’s a great way to gain attention.
6. Get input – When going to a new spot, checking-in on facebook can often garner input and advice from your friends. This might be a menu selection at a restaurant or an attraction you don’t want to miss on your trip.
7. Reminder – Posting your arrival at your destination can become a reminder to those who are supposed to be meeting you there and can spur them on to get there quicker.
8. Need anything? - When shopping, it can serve as an opportunity for friends to make a ‘pick-me-up’ request while you are in a particular store or area of town.
9. Easy post – Posting your check-in everywhere you go makes for an easy way to keep your status updated, without having to give much additional commentary.
10. Annoy your friends – If you are one of those people who are always on the run, your check-ins will be continually changing. This may be laughable to your friends at first, but eventually it will probably be annoying to them and laughable to you. This is especially true if they are stuck at work and you’re out having fun.

Of course, I’ve left the biggest reason for checking-in everywhere on facebook off the list. That reason is the one it was created for in the first place, to better target ads towards your preferences and to give free advertising to the places you visit. If those are motivating reasons for you, then keep it up.

10 Things Ghandi Might Have Tweeted

Posted by admin on 10/18/2011 | 0 Comments

With Ghandi’s commitment to simplicity of life, it is hard to imagine that he would have participated in the Twitter world, but if he had, I’m sure that his tweets would have been re-tweeted many times over. Should he have been inclined to share his thoughts in 140 character lines over this digital medium, they may have been something like this.

1. “My dog is no more, or less, a pet to me than I am to him. I would never bite him.” Ghandi believed himself, and mankind, to be no greater than the other inhabitants of the earth.
2. “The benefit of prison isolation is that the paparazzi are not permitted here.” Ghandi had an extreme distaste for the media.
3. “Violent men create their god in their image, not the other way around.” Ghandi believed in the perfection of God while attesting to the inherent imperfection of men.
4. “If you are hungry, take the last of my bread; and we will both enjoy contentedness.” Ghandi maintained that self-sacrifice brought fulfillment.
5. “The internet has brought the world closer together and people further apart.” Ghandi only saw the value in face-to-face, intimate communications.
6. “Domino’s delivers in thirty minutes that which the government cannot achieve in centuries.” Ghandi held the government wholly responsible and accountable for the plight of hunger in his country.
7. “The more developed a nation becomes, the more it destroys its people.” Having a firm belief in the simplicity of life and welfare, Ghandi saw technology and industrialization as a means to an end of the human being.
8. “Those who aspire to bring terror are, themselves, the most afraid.”  Ghandi could not comprehend such acts of violence and attributed such as flaws in personal faith and not as an act based upon oppression.
9. “Those who desire to detonate themselves, to meet their God, should do so alone.”Ghandi confirmed, and lived, the belief that no man has the right to claim another’s life–for any reason.
10. “While good Indian people are tending the world’s software issues, their gardens are overrun with weeds.” Ghandi had issues with international trade and trade services, believing that the Indian people would be prostituted. He also contended that agricultural ventures were a more honest form of work.

If you are looking for something profound to send out in a tweet, you might want to look up some of Ghandi’s quotes. You are sure to find words of wisdom that others will appreciate and benefit from in the records of his words.

10 Most Useless Statistics in Professional Sports

Posted by admin on 10/09/2011 | 0 Comments

We sports fans love our statistics, don’t we? Get a group of us together and the numbers just start flying. That’s because nothing conveys an understanding of, an abiding reverence for, and an unassailable expertise in, our favorite athletic pastimes than quoting lots of stats.

Living in the Digital Age, however, has given us the capability to proclaim with a straight face that our favorite pitcher is undefeated in day games following a national holiday when facing teams with a shortstop named Hernandez, under a dome. But that’s just an extreme example of useless statistics. More insidious are those “official” stats by which an athlete’s value is actually measured, yet really don’t tell us much. Here is my list of the 10 most useless statistics in professional sports:

1. Wins (by a Pitcher) – The idea that a pitcher has that much determination in whether his team wins or loses defies reason. Example: you can pitch a near-perfect complete game, give up a solo home run in the 9^th inning, and lose because you get no offensive support from your teammates. Or you can stink up the joint, giving up a dozen runs, then get credit for the win simply because your team outscores the other guys. Completely nonsensical.
2. Time of Possession – This statistic was intended to be indicative of a football team’s ability to control the ball and, by extension, the outcome of the game. How often, though, do you see teams run ten minutes off the clock marching downfield , then stall inside the 20?
3. Holds (by a Middle Reliever) – This stat is supposed to reflect the effectiveness of middle relief or set-up pitchers in a save situation, but its requirements aren’t even uniformly agreed upon. You can pitch pretty ineffectively and – at least according to SportsTicker – not even record an out, but still get credit for a hold if the next pitcher out of the bullpen cleans up your mess without giving up the lead.
4. Saves (by a Closer) – For much the same reasons as with the above stat, really. This one is simply awarded to the guy who pitches last for the winning team. The parameters are arbitrary and the stat places more emphasis on the last out than any of the other (potentially more important and harder-earned) previous outs recorded by relievers.
5. Shots On Goal – OK, we all get the premise here: you can’t score unless you shoot. That doesn’t mean that the hockey team that takes the most shots, scores the most goals, though.
6. Pitch Count – I’m sorry, but on this one I’ve got to go old school on you. I recall as a youth seeing far more complete games by major league pitchers than you’re ever likely to see today. And this, with far superior sports medicine and training available than ever before.
7. QB Rating – Impressive at least insofar as its herculean effort to quantify a quarterback’s value. But honestly, does anyone actually understand how this rating is quantified? For crying out loud, a “perfect rating” is 158.3. What does that tell you?
8. OTL Points – It used to be that hockey teams were awarded two points for wins, one for ties and (naturally) zero for losses. Then some genius reasoned that, Hey, shouldn’t there be a winner and a losers in an overtime game? Nevertheless, shouldn’t everyone still get a prize? So now we’re giving a point to the losing team in overtime games. I mean, why play a game until someone wins rather than record it as a tie if you’re going to award points to both teams anyway?
9. Championships (as an individual stat) – We’ve all heard the knocks on Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, et al; but this one fails, just like individual wins, and should have no bearing on a player’s value.
10. MVP – Apart from being chosen via purely subjective criteria, Most Valuable Players tend to come from teams that have the most success. While this may seem logical at first blush, it doesn’t take into consideration the fact that the more successful teams generally aren’t that reliant on just one player. Conversely, a great player can have tremendous value to a team that doesn’t make it to the post-season.