That feeling to do nothing.

I don't know about you but sometimes I go in to a state where I don't want to do anything but still I get frustrate that why I am not doing something. Sometimes it happens on a day of weekend and sometimes on weekday. Well, weekday becomes different because in any case I have to do my work in office but then apart from official work I don't feel to do anything and I get irritated with that boredom feeling.

I ask myself, what you want to do

1. Do you want to check your Facebook?
No, it's not interesting anymore.

2. Do you want to watch any movie?
No, I am not feeling to do so.

3. Do you want to sleep?
No, I am not feeling sleepy.

4. Do you want to eat something?
No.

5. Do you want a drink?
Yes, but I am not interested to make it, so leave it.

6. Do you want to talk to somebody?
No, I want to remain silent for some time.

7. Do you want to lay on this sofa like a pig?
No, I don't want that either.

8. Do you want to listen any music?
No, I have already listened my favorite numbers many times.

9. Do you want to complete your unfinished novel?
No, my brain is not in the mood to work.

10. Do you want to cook?
No, I forgot all recipes.

11. Do you want to see porn?
Chee!! No!!

Then what the hell do you want ?
I don't know, I don't know..... this boredom feeling is killing me. Oh dear god, please help me.

And, then I don't know how that phase gets over and I again start doing something.

Btw, doing nothing is in itself a great job you are doing as you are not doing anything. :)

Are you Facebook Dumb or Facebook Intelligent?

Seriously, tell me are you a Facebook dumb or Facebook intelligent?

Well, if you are not getting what I mean by Facebook dumb or Facebook intelligent and want to know about it then keep reading, otherwise, if you think this is a stupid question or you already know the answer then you may leave this page right away.(If you are leaving then thanks for increasing the visitor counter by one and I hope you come back here again :D)

So, what I meant by Facebook dumb or Facebook intelligent is:- (In my view)

1. A person who uses Facebook with out caring about privacy settings or about the audience of their profile can be categorized as Facebook dumb i.e. a person who post/share anything on their profile mainly photos or their friend's photos with public settings can be considered as Facebook dumb.

2. A person who uses Facebook by taking in to consideration that who is going to be the audience for their each post can be categorized as Facebook intelligent i.e. a person who does not post their personal or their friend's information publicly.

Although, if a person is posting something with public settings on purpose then the above categories are not for them.

If you fall under the first category then keep reading else congratulations you are not Facebook dumb.

Well, through some shared articles or photos on Facebook you might have read about misuse of photos posted by people here. I am not saying that it is totally true but in a rarest case if it is happening than isn't it worth to give a thought about your privacy setting before posting anything especially picture on Facebook?

Posting pictures with public access on social media portals/websites is something like a irreversible process, once you have posted it then it's not sure that it will not exist anymore the moment you delete it.

I am not saying that you should stop posting but always choose what you want to share with public and what with your friends, even Facebook has customized access settings to a very good extent in terms of choosing the audience of your content.

Oftentimes while browsing Facebook I come across many profiles where I saw the entire albums of people who are not in my friends list, I thought they might have album/photos visibility settings set to friends of friends but to my surprise they were posted as public. If I can see them then any body on this Facebook world can see them. This is the situation when I call such profile owners as Facebook dumb.

Well, it may be possible that you are falling in this category unknowingly because there can be many reasons for that. In this era of smart phones and tablets people generally use their smart device to upload photos as it is the most easiest way to share your picture among friends without taking the pain to first transfer pictures from your smart device to desktop/laptop and then upload them manually. It could be one of the reason to categorize one as Facebook dumb.

Facebook application or in fact any other social media applications on Windows, Android and Mac platforms makes this task easy for you, just go to the gallery, select pictures, select share on Facebook/Twitter/Google +, enter your status and done. After pressing button done the application goes in background and upload your pictures to your account but, here, I would like you to keep one thing in mind, you still have to select privacy settings of your album otherwise it will get posted as public.

Well, I am not going to mention or reiterate all the privacy settings of Facebook here as you can refer them there itself but I would like to quote some tips:-

1. Select your audience while posting through any smart device.

2. While uploading your pictures through web interface do check settings. Look for settings button while creating album or adding photos in a album through web interface. When Facebook changes it album creating and photo uploading interface then buttons may get rearranged.

3. When posting through your wall "what's on your mind?" then select your audience before posting.

4. Make separate lists from your friends list to classify your photos, posts among the group. For example, make a list of all family members among whom you can share your personal family photos or make a list of your bff among whom you can share your top secret stuff :).

5. Decide what you want to share with your friends and what with your friend of friend.

6. While tagging your friends check if you are not compromising their security settings.

7. Android devices comes with a feature of instant upload on Google+  i.e. any picture you will click on your phone will get upload automatically from your gallery on Google+. This feature is enabled by default so check your phone settings and disable it if you don't want instant upload.

8. Cover photos are public be default and you can not customize it so decide if you want to post your picture on it.

9. You can select visibility settings of your friends list, albums, which pages or to whom you are following and who all are following you. Select your setting.

10. You can view your profile as your friend i.e. you can check how one of your friend will see your profile, this is an useful facility provided by Facebook to adjust your privacy settings. The default view is set as public.

So, you, Facebook dumb people I hope you get my purpose of writing this post. Now don't be a Facebook dumb, be a Facebook intelligent.

Lady In The Gogs 2

Lady in the Gogs -part2 continues from one of my post Lady in the Gogs in 2010.

So, what exactly happens when a beautiful lady or a pretty girl gets settle in the team? Does the fellow team mates keep doing their work normally? Do they notice the addition in team? Does any change occurs in the work atmosphere?

Well, I guess you will not feel any difficulty to answer these questions if you are working under an IT firm. Being working in an IT firm I have my observations for above questions and also the experiences as shared by other IT friends so generally what happens is:-

The girl joins the firm or moved in your team from some other team, the moment team get the news of new member’s arrival  everyone starts looking for the empty bench which may get allotted to her and then start envying those lucky team members around that empty bench as they are going to be her so called neighbors. Suddenly this stupid empty bench seems lucky to the people around it as everyone want to be a good neighbor and these people gets the reward of “getting more chances to talk to her” as luckiest draw reward.(Why not lucky draw? Keep on reading…)

Yes, that’s true, people around New Member in Team get more chances to talk as compared to others as these are the people who help the NMT in setting up network related things and other knowhow of team related things.

Once the luckiest team mates are identified then comes the turn of lucky team mate in form a very sweet term of IT “Buddy” or “Mentor”. A Buddy or a Mentor is that person who is responsible for sharing the knowledge of project related things and organizational related things to the NMT. Buddy/Mentor can be any one from the team who has the full of knowledge of project, so, the Mentor will mostly interact with the NMT till the moment NMT is comfortable in the project. After this, NMT is assigned to project activities and usual office life starts.

You know, one of the main and important ingredient in the making of any software is nicotine or caffeine, without it it may not have been developed. Ab software develop karne waala bhi insaan hi he and bina coffee,chai and sutte k to dimaag hi nahin chalta so ye hua na main and important ingredient!! J. So, everybody goes out from the office (kyunki office me installed vending machine ki chai me wo baat kahan aati he….) to have a cup of tea, coffee or sutta (Cigi aka Cigarette) and wouldn’t it be rude to not to ask the NMT for the Nicot/Cafeine breaks J, after all it makes other people envy when they see that pretty NMT with you or your group. <Same goes for lunch as well>

One can easily observe a change in the work atmosphere after the addition of NMT on the floor, kaise? Aise:-

 1. More people can be seen walking, most of the time with their water bottle to refill or with a cup of tea/coffee from the break out area.

 2. Frequency of technical discussions around the NMT increases.

 3. Friends of other team members around NMT start visiting them often for any reason and interestingly they do ask “kya baat aaj aayi nahin?” when the NMT do not comes to office.

As the time passes the NMT becomes old member in the team but the atmosphere around her (like strong fragrances of perfume/deodorants and things mentioned above) still exists. Colleagues become office friends, phone number and personal email ids gets exchanged followed by adding one more member in each other’s friend list on social networks, sometimes a love story happens and sometimes FOSLA (in case if you forgot the full form of it, it is Frustrated One Sided Lover’s Association) group welcomes their new member.

Whatever the case may be the story ends either with a sweet@my desk or with a Good Bye mail.

PS: I could have mentioned other things too when a Lady in the Gogs settles down in the team but I think this may get wacky on the public forum. If you really want to know those things then drop me a PM.

PPS: Aww! I just realized , this is my 100^th post on my blog. I have hit a century since 2008. :)