I have a challenge I would love your perspective on. In the area of financial flow, I've come to believe I somehow have a block that is impeding it. I have read insane amount of books on the subject and through a lot of introspection, believe this may be the case. HOWEVER...when I see someone who has been successful in this area such as yourself, I wonder, did you always feel financially abundant, or worthy of it or somehow knew that it would all fall into place? Can you offer any thoughts on getting oneself to a place where you believe it is possible for yourself as you ARE creating something worthy and beautiful? Continued blessings, Leila
Here’s what Siver would say on this question. It's really hard for me to know what was just dumb luck and what was great strategy. For example, I'm tempted to give this bit of advice:
Think small. Don't think about getting rich. Just think what you can do for someone right now that they'll be happy to pay you for. Then when you've found it, think of how to do it for as many people as possible.
... but is that actually good advice? Or do I just think that's the strategy that made me rich, when actually it's something else entirely, and I somehow got successful despite my stupid approach?
That said, here's something that I know is quite solid:
The biggest change in my attitude towards money came from my girlfriend's hippie parents. She grew up on a commune in Vermont. No TV, no nothing. Her parents just did random odd jobs - like photography and sewing - but kept their cost of living so low that it was enough to sustain them to this day. Then they put their daughter through fancy ivy-league universities on scholarships and such.
By lowering your cost of living so low that you can do just a few hours of work per month to pay your expenses, then it frees you up to turn your attention to doing things that make you happy, or perhaps building things that will make you much more money in the long run. Things that most people don't have the time to do because they're too busy on the rat-race, doing some job they hate, because they need to support their expensive cost of living.
Point being: once you realize how cheaply you can live, you get a real secure feeling of financial abundance.
Then keep improving your hustle, and doing whatever it takes to make money doing what you love, and the security/abundance mixes with fun, for a damn good combination.
A geek is that someguy or somegirl who enjoys sitting in front of computer all day/eve to find out about what’s happening in Information Technology world, to solve computation problems or to build apps or websites for fun or for their clients. Everyone else, include your in-laws or your neighbor who sit in front of computer all day/night and like/comment or re-tweet were never geeks or will never be geeks. To all those geeks and non geeks out there – Happy New Year 2012.
Everyone and her dog is in internet these days. Subtracts half of them - give them a t-shirt printed with Facebook or Twitter logo, they would happily wear it without a second thought. My mom talks about seeing her (this is how they arrange marriage these days) in Facebook. My neighbor knows a to x about Steve Jobs. Our friends have a new excuse line for we weren’t invited to their birthday party – “i have posted it on faceook” ? or “i have tweeted that buddy, didn’t you see it ?” And your girlfriend finds time to update facebook but doesn’t find time to respond to your text or call turned missed call.
Information Technology is most neglected sector in our country by the Government. Yet, this is one of the most developed sector. Carefully drawing a growth curve would reveal the fact that – this sector is self developing, is consumer supported and is most accepted lately in our society. What about Government ? They recently shut down High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) with non-public reasons which will be buried under the piles of Nepali paper at Ministry of Science and Technology. Did anyone care ? I would have, I didn’t, why would I ?
Go to New Road. Search for latest ICS Android set. Or search for iProducts they are waiting to be bought. Google’s cache server at NTC gave us seamless YouTube video streaming – this is just wow ! We heard somewhere that IBM is collaborating with Nepali government and investing in IT Park at Banepa. Thosebody who work there know about that – everyone else, include me are busy tweeting what’s happening in our head. This won’t happen but – our government should tweet or invest on new twitter for us.
I don’t want to learn about technology in year 2012. Why care about that when at the time of implementing lessons learned we are supposed to check load shedding pdf ? Somewhile ago i thought about buying a TV set to enjoy those Hindi serials my mom always talks about – but i won’t because of that power cut. I don’t want to buy a TV set to watch its LCD screen off all the time. Who can imagine a future in technology where there was and will be 16 hours electricity cut off per day ? I can’t. It is better given up then selling one vote in national election in a false hope that some guy who haven’t even passed SLC would bring in more electricity someday. Those are all false assumptions we are supposed to rely on. I won’t on 2012.
Out of randomness scattered around this post, what I am trying to do is find few things to do for celebrating the year 2012. I think all the rant is over now, let’s focus:
1) Give more time to family, friends and acquaintances than to solving problems in computer 2) Build apps or websites as self sustainable products and not as a service for them who don’t understand the value of hard work we put on the product development. 3) Never miss another 3D Animated movie at QFX. 4) Always find time to participate in our EOM (End of Month) gathering. 5) Know more about why there is IT crew in Government of Nepal. 6) Contribute to local communities of developers, actively participate/organize meetups. Start an Open Source project. 7) Find out the song name for the .ogg i have in my pc since last 3 years. 8) Never say sorry without knowing what went wrong in my part. 9) Marriage.. hmm not sure.. should validate with coin toss ;) 10) Join MBA. 11) Join cooking class. 12) Iterate on writings.
(p.s. these are not in ASC/ DESC. Forget the numbering.)
That 2012 MW is the New Year Resolution I thought for the Nepal Electricity Authority. I don’t think they will have electricity to check out this post during this whole year.
Other landing questions could be: Where can I study Computer Engineering in Nepal ? What is course structure of Computer Engineering from TU ? Why there are so many unrelated subject in TU Computer Engineering (BCT) curriculum ? What jobs are available for Computer Engineers in Nepal ? How to understand Programming in Engineering Course ?
If you landed at this post searching for question in title and are in confusion whether to join computer engineering course or not – I would happily say go join in. Get enrolled in some colleges from TU, KU, PU etc.. Or if, if you landed at this post by other means I would guess either you are already studying computer engineering, or you are working on fields other than computer related. I’m talking about different aspects of computer engineering education in Nepal that I got to experience during my college life. If this is not the subject of your interest – I won’t mind if you stopped reading this post from here. Or if you will, I hope you’d be able to give freshers few ideas about whether to pursue higher education in computer engineering or not.
The Seeds
For me, studying computer as an academic course and pursuing a carrier in field of computers was one of childhood dream. I got to touch a computer loaded with DOS which showed some FATAL ERROR ! at the first run. Professionally Windows’s 95 / 98 was out in the market and there was Win 3.1 being taught at schools, with some Logo in primary level and Qbasic programming in secondary level.
From my friends to my computer teacher in school all were quite confident that I will end up studying Computer Engineering in higher studies (Since this is the only/reputed option available in Nepal for higher studies in Computer science). Yes, I did it. It has been two years now I’m working in software/web application development after college.
I had found some interest for staying around computers since 6th grade. Friends and family would ask me to solve their pc related problems. I was fascinated by electronics circuits. With that FATAL ERROR ! box in hand to repair I started searching for Linux OS that fits in a floppy or I would build some GUI to manage my Low End Box in Qbasic. Those were just stuffs that kept me interested in computers.
Later on I was introduced to Google by my brothers. The motivation for me to study computer engineering was all of the resources available in the internet. It was back in 2000 when I typed “how to build softwares” in Google. From that day on, I was always reading online university courses from universities around the world, papers and blogs shared by others tech people, blogs by students like me. The thing that excited me was – the culture of technology users. They share so much of information that – you can get into computer field starting from any given day and land up in a nice paying job within 6 months of time, with some serious effort.
Bill Gates: Forget university, the web is the future for education. #
All of the these practically implemented resources shared in the internet sometimes will give a feel that University courses are impractical, and they teach us practically minimal things that will support us professionally. With this practical side of resources available online, once during my course – I had a feeling that “I could get a job without university course too ” and would be able to pursue a nice career of my interest - programming. Or build a company of my own solely dedicated to software development. But, the whole purpose of joining a college “was” different – it is best seen now after college than at the time of actually doing the metal works at Workshop lab or Drawing unwanted stuffs on Engineering Drawing classes. But, to be true my realization after computer engineering course was If i had only followed what they taught us in University – I don’t think I would have been able to work professionally from the next day I finished my college. So here comes this post.
Few things, I did my college from Tribhuvan University and subject details below are referenced from TU course but choice of university would matter less at the end, what matters is “how much you could grasp out of the course and how skillful you become after completing the course”.
University Vs. Professional Practice
TU or KU will not teach us that way that after four 365 days we will graduate and get a job as a software engineer or as sys admin in an Internet Service Provider. They teach us the fundamentals of Computer Science. If you want to get skills that sells or gives you job after graduation it is up-to you to prepare for them. Consider yourself lucky if your university/college cares about providing you trainings/internships to help you get jobs later. But, if you are smart enough, you could get hired even before graduation. This is one of the most awesome thing we get to see in computer engineering field. Skills are choices.
University education will prepare us for higher education with knowledge of computer science fundamentals. However, professionals would expect in us skills related to our field that sells, that could help build softwares, that could manage a network or which could administer a server system of a bank.
Also, a university education (especially in Computer Science) will introduce you to a lot of people and opportunities in your field, will expand your technical horizon, and will force you to learn things you wouldn't have otherwise learnt on your own. School will open doors for you, it's up to you to pick which one to walk through. #
University course will help understand most of the basic concepts to the point where you would understand how computers actually work at a fundamental level, and you’d know how to get through the "abstraction" layers that so many people seem to have issues with. If you understand how a transistor works, it'll give you a better understanding of why writing to a flash device is different from other memories. If you understand how flash devices work, then it'll give you a better understanding of why you need different file systems to support it. If you understand how the file systems work, it'll give you a better understanding of why, for instance, opening a file with a million small files might be slow in some systems... and so on and so forth. I think one of the biggest thing that I got out of the school was 4 years of just learning and thinking about the concepts are all inter-related, so that when something fails, you have the required tools and knowledge to actually dig into it and figure out what's underneath all that abstraction that everyone takes for granted. #
I know this is little bit long winded, but I'm of the opinion that the 4 years spent in college will not be a waste. If you find a right college, just the people you're going to meet and befriend I think is worth it all by itself. It's really going to be what you make out of it. And most of it, I loved my college life, I loved my friends, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. #
But, career learning is not an option in university, you learn it more from on-job training, reading blogs and connecting with industry professionals.
University teaching is based on measuring units, quantifying experiences and not giving people the room to grow as artists. In the market, you can't quantify everything, we are training too many scientist and not enough artists.
The important thing is to get out there and do stuff. Instead of waiting to be taught, go out and learn. – Paul Graham on “What You'll Wish You'd Known”
Point is : You’d have to learn what you want to learn by yourself. Engineering course is designed to help us understand fundamentals of that learning curve. Don't pick a college based on name brand recognition, pick one with a solid course structure with rich technical resources. Join in. Hack the course in/out, get max from the four years of your life.
1.0 Mathematics – I 2.0 Physics physics 3.0 Computer Programming – I (C) 4.0 Communication - I (English) 5.0 Engineering Drawing – I 6.0 Workshop Technology 7.0 Applied Mechanics 8.0 Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer 9.0 Mathematics – II 10.0 Chemistry chemistry 11.0 Electrical Engineering Materials 12.0 Electric Circuits – I 13.0 Engineering Drawing – II 14.0 Mathematics – III 15.0 Computer Progrmming – II (C++) 16.0 Electric Circuits – II 17.0 Semiconductor Devices 18.0 Logic Circuits 19.0 Basic Computer Concepts (BCC) 20.0 Applied Mathematics 21.0 Instrumentation 22.0 Electronic Circuit – I 23.0 Microprocessor 24.0 Electrical Machines 25.0 Electromagnetics (EM) 26.0 Numerical Methods(NM) 27.0 Communication - II (English) 28.0 Data Structure and Algorithm (DSA) 29.0 Theory of Computation (TOC) 30.0 Computer Architecture & Design (CAD) 31.0 Microprocessor Based Instrumentation (MBI) 32.0 Control System 33.0 Engineering Economics 34.0 Probability and Statistics 35.0 Computer Graphics (CG) 36.0 Communication System 37.0 Operating System (OS) 38.0 Database Management System (DBMS) 39.0 Minor Project project 40.0 Project Engineering 41.0 Organization & Management 42.0 Computer Network 43.0 Software Engineering 44.0 Artificial Intelligence (AI) 45.0 Elective 46.0 Engineering Professional Practice (EPP) 47.0 Technology Environment & Society (TES) 48.0 Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 49.0 Simulation and Modeling 50.0 Information System (IS) 51.0 Major Project 52.0 Elective – II The above list will eat up four most energetic and valuable years of your life. If you did it well – there are lot of possibilities.
Scenario : This needs to be changed
Teacher
Theory focus
No senior lecturers available (almost all of them left country for higher education)
Weak at practical implementation of the course
Teach to earn mindset
Can teach anything.. any subject to any faculty (ridiculous)
Knows everything in theory
Lack of subject domain expertise
Student
Theory Focus
Lack of seriousness in course study
Lack of knowledge about scope of course
Lack of practical application of theory
Takes projects as burden
Exam centric study
No interest in self learning
Stressed of unnecessary Electrical/Electronics subjects
No idea of Collaborative Development
No Interest in professional latest happenings
This list reflects those who do a irresponsible teaching and the students who loose their interest in study in the middle of the course. Writing these as an outsider – there came these points needed to be managed during college life. These scenario needs to be changed. We need to inherit the sharing, caring and collaborating culture from the history of world’s technical developments.
After course : Career options
Most of the Computer Engineering graduate are working in one of the following positions in Kathmandu.
Programmer (Software Engineer)
Desktop Applications Developer
Web Applications Developer
Mobile Applications Developer
Network Admin
Sys Admin
DBA (Database Administrator)
Web/UI Designer
Q/A (Quality Assurance)
3D Animator / Modeler
System/Project Management
Information Architecture (System Designer)
We are being taught C/C++ for basic programming/ software development concepts but professionally “PHP, Javascript, JAVA, C#, Python” are of the popular programming languages used in Nepal. Ref: Popular Programming Languages in Nepal.
So any student who learns these industry standard software development platforms on her/his own effort will sure hold better chance of working as “Software Engineer.” This applies to all other jobs mentioned above too. What this means to a engineering student is you should give some time to find out what’s your actual interest is in – and direct the knowledge you get out of course study to the practical implementation in that field with all your energy. It is up to the students to chose a career of their interest, that they are passionate about.
Subjects : Relations
Let’s take a different look at the above subjects. Let’s group related subjects together. This grouping will give one a clear idea of how the subject being studied are related to each other.
Math
1.0 Mathematics – I 9.0 Mathematics – II 14.0 Mathematics – III 20.0 Applied Mathematics 34.0 Probability and Statistics 33.0 Engineering Economics
English
4.0 Communication - I (English) 27.0 Communication - II (English)
Drawing / Metal Works
5.0 Engineering Drawing – I 13.0 Engineering Drawing – II 6.0 Workshop Technology
Physics / Chemistry
2.0 Physics 8.0 Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer 10.0 Chemistry
Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics
7.0 Applied Mechanics 11.0 Electrical Engineering 12.0 Electric Circuits – I 16.0 Electric Circuits – II 21.0 Instrumentation 22.0 Electronic Circuit – I 24.0 Electrical Machines 25.0 Electromagnetic (EM) 32.0 Control System 36.0 Communication System 48.0 Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
(I still find these subjects useless for a computer engineering student. Bite me.) Digital Electronics Basic (Computer Hardware)
17.0 Semiconductor Devices 18.0 Logic Circuits Basic of Digital Logic, and how electronic components like Diode, Transistors help one formulate devices with computing “logic”. How Computers are made (Computer Hardware)
How computer processes “instruction” (eg. calculations, input, output etc) is studied from ground up in these subjects. Concept of Embedded System designs (eg. Robots, Computer Controlled devices, Digital home appliances).
General Information about Computer & Computer Engineering as Profession
19.0 Basic Computer Concepts (BCC) 46.0 Engineering Professional Practice (EPP) 47.0 Technology Environment & Society (TES)
Every Computer Engineer needs to understand the basic building blocks of computing devices. How computer systems affect overall society in terms of advancements (TES). State of Computer engineering profession in Nepal is studied in EPP.
Project/Software System Design / Management
40.0 Project Engineering 41.0 Organization & Management 43.0 Software Engineering 50.0 Information System (IS)
These subjects are most important subjects from management point of view. Any engineer would some day get involved into project management, software/system design/modeling and Information Architect career. Anyone who ends up working in any of the development, networking, DBA or SYS Admin field will benefit from having the idea of project, people and software system design/management.
Programming the Computer / Algorithms
3.0 Computer Progrmming – I (C) – Procedural Programming 15.0 Computer Progrmming – II (C++) – Object Oriented Programming Assembly / Microprocessor, Prolog for AI, MATLAB, Computer Graphics Algorithms Data Structures / Algorithms, Numerical Methods, Weka / Data Mining SQL / MySQL / Oracle
However it's not going to matter what programming courses you get to learn - you really learn programming once (not a trivial task) for me I started with Qbasic on 9/10th grade, and from there you can pick up whichever languages (PHP, Javascript, C#, JAVA, Python, Ruby, Lisp ) you need (a comparatively trivial task). Most importantly, you should learn outside the classroom -- make your own projects/applications/websites or contribute to existing projects. I did. This helps in a lot of aspects -- it trains your motivation, improves your skills in programming, can be used as resume fodder, and so on.
Advanced Computation
26.0 Numerical Methods(NM) 28.0 Data Structure and Algorithm (DSA) 29.0 Theory of Computation (TOC) 35.0 Computer Graphics (CG) 44.0 Artificial Intelligence (AI) 49.0 Simulation and Modeling
NM – is for advance mathematical calculations. DSA is the subject that will give heavy focus on algorithmic implementation of numerous real world problems with computer. TOC is highly theoretical subject and is best studied for language design, compiler design. CG – if done well can inspire one to get in to Game development, 3D modeling, Computer Vision etc. AI – Useful in Games, Robotics and automation, expert systems. Simulation - Modeling and simulating high end computing systems.
Computer System, Storage, Networking
37.0 Operating System (OS) 38.0 Database Management System (DBMS) 42.0 Computer Network
One should be familiar with how the computer “actually works”. This is where Operating System is dissected to depth. Every application in the world will need some storage to store data/information. No software engineer could work without writing database queries. Anyone interested to work as Network Administrator take Computer Network seriously. Subject of your choice
45.0 Elective – I (Image Processing, Optical Fiber, Mobile Communication etc) 52.0 Elective – II (IPv6, Biomedical, Data Mining etc.)
You can chose for “easiness” or for “interest”. Normally, choosing for interest is a tough choice. And a better choice.
Projects is where you get to show your Software design, development, project management skills studies so far.
39.0 Minor Project project 51.0 Major Project Hierarchy of subjects with their relative hardness:
Math > Physics > Electrical/Electronics > Fundamental Computer Science > Software Engineering > Information Systems > Management > English > Art Master from the root. Other will follow naturally.
For career in software development
First year of engineering education will be more about "learning how to learn" than anything else. Once you get into track, understand what is your real interest is in – after that its time to focus and be determined to dive into it. At this point you should be sure whether you want to be an pure academic (teaching) or a pure industry engineer (career options above). It’s again up-to you. Since I was more interested in software field – here’s what I think you may find interesting to focus on during college life for the same.
Focus On
One computer subject one project
Projects for fun
Build Unique Apps / Projects
Don't repeat yourself while coding
Don't build what is already built
Build with awesome Interface/UI/UX/Design
Build apps to launch
Unit Tests / Testing / Automation
Share your code or part of it
Use open source to the max
Document your project well
Always share your learning experience
Always work in groups
Collaborate as much as possible
Ask someone to mentor you
Maintain a regular blog from day one at university.
Learn where any subject under discussion will help professionally.
This is all about connecting the dots, as Steve Jobs said
Project Ideas (< a month projects)
Project Ideas
Nepali Chat Bots
Nepali Language Parsers
Local Games 2d/3d
Nepali Social Network Models
RSS-to-SMS
MIS as Web Apps
Inventory Management Web Apps
Online Multiplayer Games
Language Converters
Nepali Calendar
AI in Games
OCRs that recognize Nepali Text
Extensible Content Management Systems
Data Backup Systems
Multimedia Players
Road Simulators
Electricity Flow Simulation
Location Based Social Web Apps
Real-time Online News Systems
Real Time Online Discussion Forums
Online Payment Get-ways
Mobile Games
Quiz Softwares
Event Management Apps
To-do list manager
Bookmark Managers
Browser Extensions
Plug-in/Extension to your favorite softwares
Web Scrappers
Report/Chart/Analysis Libraries
Personal Blogs/Websites
Work on open issues of Open Source apps
Suggestions
Suggestions to Computer Engineering students
Self Study
Internet is your library - Search, search and search more
Try to understand the concept of programming not syntax
Algorithms and Data Structures are everything
Projects are portfolio for your first job interview
Wikipedia is your teacher
Open Source Applications are you Code Gurus
Online Discussion Forums are your Communities
Organize events, competitions centered around Software development
Learn to use Collaboration Tools
Be disciplined inside and about your profession
Build Skills that sell
Join/Follow communities of developers
Learn to respect community, get max from it
Find what is the BUZZ in tech
Learn about Project Management seriously
Build products that can solves existing software problems in our community
Know about Documentation
Learn about software testing / Quality Assurance
Do one project by yourself per computer related subject
Give others, Take from others
Share your project code in the internet
No one becomes professional without a hard work
Those who are doing good now did their best while studying
No one is born talented, its the hard effort that pays later
Regular Reading : Recommendations (Online)
Wikipedia : Once a week (Start with a tech article, follow all the inside links) Stackoverflow / Sort questions by vote and read 20 most voted questions in all the subjects of your choice. Regularly read updates from at least two or three domain experts of the field of your interest. Join Local Communities of Tech Users. (eg. KtmGTUG, Hackers Chautari, FOSS, BarCamp) Get a habit of reading blogs, online discussion forums regularly. Publish your new found knowledge in your blog. (refer: http://wiki.semicolonvalley.org to find other local resources)
Here goes, one quick SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tip for Nepali Bloggers who use Blogger.com to publish their content written in Nepali Unicode.
What I’m talking about ?
Say: your blog post title is “मेरो नेपाल” You publish it. Now blogger gives you one random “url/permalink” to your post which looks something like – http://yourblog.com/2011/11/blog-post.html. Why that happens is because blogger.com service is not made in Nepal. Now forget that reasoning since that does makes no sense.
Such permalinks suck from SEO perspective, ain’t it ? Blogger left no option to provide an equivalent English permalink/url for our Nepali Unicode blog article.
If the post had English/roman title like : Mero Nepal Permalink would have been: http://yourblog.com//2011/11/mero-nepal.html
Do you see problem here ? Yes that’s what I am talking about. Now question is, what if we could provide a meaningful url to our Nepali Unicode post keeping the Unicode title as is ? Obviously, our content would be more search engines friendly.
Solution ?
Solution is so simple that even our grandmother would follow it. Let me describe that in steps.
Step 1:
Write your article in Nepali Unicode.
Step 2:
Give your post a equivalent roman or english title. eg. instead of using “मेरो नेपाल” in blog title use “Mero Nepal” or “My Nepal”
Step 3:
Publish your blog post. that gives us a readable URL in English or roman.
Step 4:
Now edit your blog post’s title – change it back to Nepali Unicode version. use “मेरो नेपाल” in title of the article now.
Step 5:
Re-publish the edited post.
Step 6:
Enjoy ! Let Google take care of the rest.
Conclusion
Search engines give more priority to the permalink/URL of the post. It makes sense to have a more meaningful, human readable URL to our blog post. It helps our reader to find our content via search engines.
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We used to swim in pool. Now, we swim in the internet. With every person clicking a mouse button in internet – there comes a “piece of information”. With so many and “lead by business motive” social networks – we forget the boundaries of our actual social connection and push things – without a second thought. Who cares – if the audience is your father or a stranger. When you were provided a “wrong” working environment you’ll work wrong. Which is obvious.
In most of the present social networks when we share, nobody cares. Or saying it more precisely nobody cares who we don’t care. Or nobody who doesn’t have similar interest to us cares. I, for example, care about few people’s update, few bloggers and few site that i visit regularly in the internet. If there were “settings/preferences” to wipe out every other updates in the internet except from those people, sites, interest that I enjoy checking out – I would have checked that option forever.
With such humans as we are in the internet, the only “someone” that always cares about our shared information is the software code that sits in the servers of social networks or sites we use daily to send updates. It parses, analyses and tracks our updates to “discover” some patterns, trending information about us, our actions, our interests and our social connections. A social network – if provided you complete control of your data, complete control over the interface (UI) and complete control over your actions, can you answer – who the hell on earth would pay the “social network business” if you won’t ? So there comes the targeted advertisement business models. Those tracked information about users is now on sell. We are getting “noise” because we are stuck in the free but business oriented models of our actual social life online.
The internet was designed to be an open environment. Thoughts about developing an actual social experience online would always be just a thought. Seth’s said, Cities don't die (but corporations do) and I think social networks systems which model social structure online with closed motives will die too. Now or later, sooner better. We will adapt to/use new social networks online but they will have similar issues too.
The existing social model online are not reducing single to noise ratio in the online information flow – they should have but they won’t. With the give everything as free service business models – we users have to compromise on our data, our activities and bear with the targeted/untargeted noise if we use those systems.
Conclusion:
Social network can be modeled around actual life’s social structure. There are no technical difficulties. But, no social network organization with business motives will give “that much of real life control over the system” to its user. This is how free of cost social networks will always work.
However, we have choice. We could stop using social networks or stop expecting as if they modeled/cared our real life social structure online – they never did, and no other social network will ever. We shouldn’t act wrong, because we were given a wrong social networking environments online. It’s always us, the users, who are responsible and should be about what we share online. If we don’t care about social structure/connections online, how would anyone from heaven believe that we would care about those social connections in real life – in our homes.
Everyone started programming with Hello World. Who found a passion did magic.
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