This is my final entry. I will miss tuning in every week to sell my concoction. This week I sit in shanti as I pen down my deepest thoughts about trust. Initially i wrote a paragraph on assimilation. But i deleted it. This is a new one:) TRUST... a five letter-ed word we hardly ponder over. The reason why i believe the world goes round. The sun trusts the moon to show up after it sets. A student trusts the alarm clock that would wake him up each morning. A restaurant owner has trust that his customers would show up even before he sets up his restaurant. An angsty boss may never love his subordinate but he would still trust that subordinate to turn in the expected work in the nick of time. Yes, we all preach trust. We may not love the world but we do know that we have no choice other than to trust along the way. Be it bffs, bfs or siblings who betray us, we would still issue them that tiny winy morsel of trust. Trust is paramount. Agreed. But how do purveyors communicate trust? It makes me wonder why we are taught to be trustworthy but never taught to trust? Seems like 'trust' has an insidious nature. Well, actually not. Many of us hardly trust people easily because we had our fair share of healing wounds on our backs. We then stereotype groups of people according to our prototype of grass and experience. This prototype of grass is passed down to friends, family and generations. They communicate this over in the form of jokes, set backs and bed time stories even. Having said in intricate detail about the hand-me-downs of negative trust.. I shall now reveal the secret to communicating trust. This is solely my interpretation and shall not be proclaimed the only formula per se. "Never promise what you can't deliver!" "Do not preach something you don't practice" and adopt a positive attitute towards people who can't deliver something they promise. If it's something minute though intangible and voluminous to you.. "Don't sweat the small stuff." It's unhealthy:) 

So here's wishing you a healthy lifestyle...:)

Kudos to COMMUNICATION!

Long live COMMUNICATION!

"Just a game"... hah!

A 45-year-old Granite Falls, Snohomish Country, man was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment because he arranged to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Geogory Charles Dolle enticed the minor after watching the TV show, 'To Catch a Predator'. He reportedly claimed to have gone online after watching this show to see if the police were baiting him or entrapping the predators. Dolle mentioned that it was "just a game" to him. The Portland "minor" that Dolle assumed he was alluring was in actual fact an undercover FBI agent. Dolle was arrested when he showed up to meet the "minor". 

Our world thrives on computer mediated communication. And cases like Dolle's are one of it's predominant features. The interaction between unknown identities in the virtual world is like catastrophe looming in the dark waters. Many parents act as bulwark against such crime by supervising and restricting their children. Yet, cyber crime is rampant. 

Perpetrators of fraud are creating new ways to scam Internet users every day. It is impossible to know all the scams that are occurring on the Web. There are several precautions that an Internet user can take to protect themselves from becoming a victim of Internet fraud. And you can get vigilant too. 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1043923552558

Cyberspace is full of deception. Though it's part of our everyday life, CMC differs from face-to-face communication. CMC limits the level of synchronicity of interaction, which may cause a reduction of interactivity. Furthermore, CMC can overcome time- and space dependencies. The anonymity in CMC makes it very difficult to identify or guard against recalcitrants. So to predict or prevent CMC effects... that's going to be a difficult one considering how essential CMC has become:) 

Let's share... fill the air with your deep and sweeping vistas.