New Year's Resolution: Make no plans, enjoy life !

2011 is here … most of us at the end of each year, make plans; we set our goals for the upcoming one. Most of them aim to increase our life standards. Goals related with business and financial success. Since this year will be surely difficult to deal in these two sectors, maybe, we should concentrate in things that we leave behind.

Things that we take for granted, such as the love and the patience of our family and friends. Maybe we should work on finding ways to keep these people closer to us, learn from them and evaluate the meaning of their existence in our life.

We should take care of our health, smile more often and try humoring even the most difficult parts of our day; because soon the next year and the year after that, will be here and it would be sad to look backwards and see all this lost time that has pasted by…

Enjoy life! Fall in Love!

The Social Networks

Unfortunately I woke up today at 06:00... After 45' trying to get back to sleep, I decided to deal with it and opened my laptop. After checking my e-mail account I wanted to check my social network accounts. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Plaxo etc...

... but both Facebook and Twitter were on 'over capacity' mode and could not log in. As a Scorpio I hit refresh so many times that for a minute I thought the arrow has changed direction... :-)

According to wikipedia, Facebook has 500.000.000 registered users and Twitter 160.000.000. But there are also other social networks that we here in Europe are not so familiar with, as Vkontakte that has 91.600.000 Russian speaking users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Social networks have become such a part of our day life that are addicted. It is something like smoking and drinking coffee. I don't do either, but I'm logged (not necessary actively) almost all day long. Ofcourse the real life is out there, but even after or while living  it, you feel the need to share it on your wall... 

My REAL friends, the ones I'm having loooong coffee breaks, dinners and drinks, always though of me as a social person, so these networks were just one more way for me to communicate. I respect my friends that have no idea how all these, but I can not understand it though.

After having watched  the movie 'The Social Network'  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/ a few days ago, 2 thoughts passed my mind:

1. the rapid development of technology has made us all looking for our best photo profile  to upload and reading books on how to increase our company's revenue through social networks/media

2. innovation can become commodity easily after a while... as people tend to get things for granted, all these potential Zuckerberg Harvard students, must soon find something new to provoke us.