Latest Trend
 As predicted by digital gurus more than a decade
ago, hundreds of
millions of people are now living large
parts of their lives
online (and lovin' it!).
However, this has not turned entire generations
into homebound, anti-social
zombies (another popular forecast). Au
contraire: social media
and mobile communications are fueling a
MASS MINGLING that defies
every cliché about diminished human
interaction in our 'online
era'.
Think friends and
family, colleagues, romantic interests, and
those sharing similar hobbies,
interests, political preferences,
grievances or causes.
And all this 'befriending' takes place in
unprecedented quantities:
never before were people able to build and
maintain such extensive and
relevant personal networks.
Some numbers:
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Twitter: 100 million+
users, with 50 million
tweets sent each day.
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Facebook : nearing 500
million users. The average user has 130 friends, spends 55
minutes a day on the site
and receives three "event invitations" to
real-life gatherings every
month (in December 2009, the company stated
that 3.5 million
events were created every month).
Next? According to The New York Times, Facebook will soon
incorporate 'location'
in two ways: its own features for
sharing location and APIs
to let other sites and apps offer location
services to Facebook
users. This could well be a MASS MINGLING killer
app.
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LinkedIn :
over 65 million members. A
new member joins LinkedIn approximately
every second.
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A 'veteran' MASS MINGLING engine like Meetup has 6.1
million members,
handling 2.2 million RSVPs
and 180,000 meet-ups, in 45,000 cities a
month.
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Nearly three quarters (73%) of online
teens and an equal
number (72%) of young
adults* use social network sites. 73% of adult
profile owners use
Facebook, 48% have a profile on MySpace and 14% use
LinkedIn. (Source: Pew, Feb 2010.)
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Actual Answers to Sixth Grade History Tests:
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The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born
in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is
famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and
hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a
heriocouplet.
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Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote
Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
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It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the
removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of
blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes
and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot
clipper.
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The Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's
Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many died and many
babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
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One of the causes for the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in
their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without
stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer pay for taxis.
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Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas
Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration
of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards
and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in
1790 and is still dead.
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Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic
hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare
arms.
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Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died
in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.
Abraham Lincoln freed slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the
night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by
one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was
John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
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Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.
Voltaire
invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was
invented by
Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when apples are
falling off
the trees.
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Johan Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a
large number of
children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept in
his attic.
Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in
the
world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half
English.
He was very large.
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