I’d make the argument that a programmer produces a work of art in the same way that a novelist or a poet does. Understanding that art requires the use of some more mental faculties — understanding symbols, structures, mathematics, semantics and their inter-relation. The process is perhaps harder than looking at a painting. But the payoff to the observer is no less than listening to, and appreciating a piece of music.
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![Facebook Influences Your Mood More Than Any Social Network »
Have been having frequent mood swings recently and thought that it was due to peer pressure or depression? Well, you may not have realized, but it may have been triggered by frequent use of social networking sites. In a survey by Rebtel, a mobile VoIP company, it has been found that social media sites like Facebook have an impact on our mood. It affects most aspects of our lives, makes us feel more lonely, more envious and even affect memory.
Though most participants [during the survey] said no networks cause them stress or have a negative effect on their mood, Facebook came in as the top site for those whose emotions were affected. Facebook was followed by Twitter (4.7%) in bringing bad vibes. […] Respondents were more likely to be positively influenced by social media, with 45.9% of people listing Facebook as the site with favorable effects on their mood. YouTube ranked at 17.5%, followed by LinkedIn.
Interestingly, Facebook is not the only site taking us on a roller coaster ride. The survey claims that while the site creates the most stress it also brings in more positive mood in comparison to other social media sites. In tallying the responses, Facebook topped the list for affecting emotions followed by Twitter.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3c5b254a111d82df4f065d68b9893072/tumblr_mikj5sNkXD1r8dxvuo1_250.jpg)
Facebook Influences Your Mood More Than Any Social Network »
Have been having frequent mood swings recently and thought that it was due to peer pressure or depression? Well, you may not have realized, but it may have been triggered by frequent use of social networking sites. In a survey by Rebtel, a mobile VoIP company, it has been found that social media sites like Facebook have an impact on our mood. It affects most aspects of our lives, makes us feel more lonely, more envious and even affect memory.
Though most participants [during the survey] said no networks cause them stress or have a negative effect on their mood, Facebook came in as the top site for those whose emotions were affected. Facebook was followed by Twitter (4.7%) in bringing bad vibes. […] Respondents were more likely to be positively influenced by social media, with 45.9% of people listing Facebook as the site with favorable effects on their mood. YouTube ranked at 17.5%, followed by LinkedIn.
Interestingly, Facebook is not the only site taking us on a roller coaster ride. The survey claims that while the site creates the most stress it also brings in more positive mood in comparison to other social media sites. In tallying the responses, Facebook topped the list for affecting emotions followed by Twitter.
(Source: newyorker.com, via newyorker)
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Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)
The stress comes, Marder theorizes, from the kind of personal versioning that is so common in analog life — the fact that you (probably) behave slightly differently when you’re with your mom than you do when you’re with your boss, or with your boyfriend, or with your dentist. And it comes, even more specifically, from the social nuance of that versioning behavior colliding with the blunt social platform that is The Facebook. Behaviors like swearing and drinking and smoking, the study suggests, are behaviors that you (might) do with friends — but not (probably) with your boss. And, more subtly, language that you might use with your friends — in-jokes, slang, references to Breaking Bad — probably won’t track when you’re not with your friends. The awareness of that discrepancy — Facebook’s tendency to disseminate even highly targeted social interactions — leads to stress.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me5tfiBFMm1qcokc4o1_250.jpg)
Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)
The stress comes, Marder theorizes, from the kind of personal versioning that is so common in analog life — the fact that you (probably) behave slightly differently when you’re with your mom than you do when you’re with your boss, or with your boyfriend, or with your dentist. And it comes, even more specifically, from the social nuance of that versioning behavior colliding with the blunt social platform that is The Facebook. Behaviors like swearing and drinking and smoking, the study suggests, are behaviors that you (might) do with friends — but not (probably) with your boss. And, more subtly, language that you might use with your friends — in-jokes, slang, references to Breaking Bad — probably won’t track when you’re not with your friends. The awareness of that discrepancy — Facebook’s tendency to disseminate even highly targeted social interactions — leads to stress.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]
If you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen…AND you will be happier.
(Source: quotehimonthat, via practice-self-love)
Attention Tavi and Rookie Mag fans!
We’re turning the tables on Rookie’s ”Ask A Grown Man” series. Teen extraordinaire Tavi Gevinson will be answering your burning questions. (Tavi, if you’re not cool enough to know, is the 16-year-old editor-in-chief and founder of rookiemag.com, a website for teenage girls, whose first book, Rookie Yearbook One, just hit book stores.)
WHAT’S UP WITH TEENS!? WHY YOU ALWAYS TEXTIN’?!
Tavi will answer her favorites in a video in this week’s iPad issue—which hits the App Store on Sunday. Questions are open to everyone: tweens, teens, adults, and the elderly! Just send us a message, tag your post ‘Ask A Teen,’ or tweet it with the hashtag #AskATeen. Where possible, tell us your name, age, and city so Tavi can better answer your questions!
OK tumblr, go! Let’s see what these teens are all about!
Got burning questions about teens? Ask a real-life teenager anything (conversations that clear stronger doubts)!
The more you document your own life, the more you check in, you tweet, the more you post photos of what you did last night, the more you do all of this stuff, or even in my case, the more you listen for little lines of dialogue that can make their way into stories, the more you photograph…
This is only true if those services do not give back to you. In the case of foursquare, we’ve always been looking at things from the lens of ”every checkin you give us helps make foursquare smarter so that we can make better recommendations for you”. I think this is the big point that people are missing about what we’re trying to do. Sure, checking in allows you to document the present, but the big idea is that 10 seconds here and 15 seconds there of checking-in will eventually translate into helping you find things you may have never discovered otherwise. (and this will be especially true when passive GPS plays nicely with battery life on next-gen mobile phones)
tumblr has given me the ability to laugh without actually laughing.
(Source: tinkeratu, via all-the-internet-goodies)
| me: | i really need to change certain aspects of my life |
| me: | *changes blog theme* |
As the old saying goes: “The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.” Instead you can use your Facebook life.
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