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Although this development is fairly innocuous in itself, it seems to indicate a negative trend in the way we view our relationships with other people. It has become increasingly acceptable for individuals to use friends as publicity vehicles. Many employers appear to even encourage this type of behavior; more than a few jobs that I looked at for this summer indicated that familiarity with use of social networks was a plus. However, when there are already specifically business-oriented networking sites like LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Xing, the mixing of business and personal relationships on Facebook is entirely unnecessary and detrimental...
...Nature. Several monarchs have been delayed in their efforts to attend a celebration of the 70th birthday of Denmark's Queen Margrethe. Despite RSVPing for the festivities, which began Thursday night, Norway's King Harald, Spain's King Juan Carlos and Sweden's King Carl Gustav have yet to appear in Copenhagen. Elsewhere, Norway's Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who had been attending President Obama's nuclear summit, is stuck in New York. According to his press secretary, the Premier is "running the Norwegian government from the United States via his new iPad." As for Obama, he and other world...
Final clubs eventually learned to thrive with Jews, blacks, homosexuals, and all sorts of other people who would have once been considered incompatible with the Rockefellers and Morgans who filled club dining rooms. The past teaches us that distinctions between people that appear fundamental at the time may in fact rest on dubious assumptions. Throughout history, well-meaning individuals have believed that the introduction of new elements into their social communities would ruin something important, but time and time again, history has proven them wrong...
...Problem: Even this advice can’t make you appear to be a true...
...Solution: Don’t worry. You’ll probably spend most of Kid Cudi’s performance texting your friends at state schools about the fact that you’re watching Kid Cudi perform. You don’t really need to sing along or appear interested anyway...