The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Thursday, 17 September 2015

A 'DISLIKE' BUTTON ON FACEBOOK: DOES IT MATTER?

Facebook's “dislike” button is going to be a disaster - Quartz
Get real Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook's dislike button is too late - The Telegraph
Facebook Doesn't Need a 'Dislike' Button - Here's Why - NDTV
Does Facebook Need a 'Dislike' Button? - The New York Times
Facebook gives the thumbs-up to 'dislike' button - Financial Times
Will Facebook users like ‘dislike’ button? Opinionline - USA Today
Facebook is working on a 'dislike' button - CNBC
Here’s Why Facebook Wants a ‘Dislike’ Button - Time
Facebook’s ‘Dislike’ Button Is Going to Get a Lot of Use in Asia - Foreign Policy
Facebook 'Dislike' Button: Why It Might Not Be a Thumbs Down - ABC News
Facebook 'dislike' button in pipeline, says Mark Zuckerberg - The Guardian
Facebook Is Creating a Dislike Button, Mark Zuckerberg Confirms - Yahoo Tech

The world media carried out an intense debate about this 'dislike button' by Facebook, a development that is nothing but a delayed move by the social media giant - the largest social media platform by user base.

The social media platform that has remained there in spite of stiff challenges from challengers including from Google - it is in fact the only social media website in its category with a global presence. The most talked about challenger, 'Google Plus' is going to close its shop. Earlier, Orkut had also failed Google.

Also Facebook supports different media upload platforms. Other famous social media platforms are platform specific - like YouTube and other similar sites for video content - like Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Medium or others for 'blog content' - like Twitter, Weibo and others for 'microblogging content'.

Basically, every social media website is a content sharing platform - in any form - with any possible content as per the norms - but Facebook provides, in a way, to share all of them in one place - and has evolved over the years - based on consumer feedbacks - and loads of 'algorithms' insight into them.

Today, Facebook has around one billion users spread in different countries. And in spite of the site growing commercial with time, its role in mass protest movements like Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street or even in anti-corruption movement back home is well known. In fact, the self-propelled social concerns (by users) provide global sanctity to platforms like Facebook. In fact, they help these organization in covering their 'omnipresent' commercial streak.

Anyway, what Mark Zuckerberg 'announced' was nothing new - and certainly not for generating intense analytical buzz over different 'contours and aspects' of the 'proposed or upcoming' Facebook 'dislike' button.

In fact, the massive global buzz around his 'question and answer' session has once again proved the marvel of 'sleek communication campaign' that kick off spontaneously after every such development - in case of products reaching masses globally.

People started writing about it because so many people use Facebook. The writers were trying to speak on their behalf, even if a 'like' or 'dislike' button doesn't do much beyond some case studies of anaemic effects of social media on people.

Well, the actual debate has to be - do we really need debates of this sort - like Facebook introducing an addition to elements of its site, here with a 'dislike' button?

To continue..

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/