everyday I check my memories on FB and today I saw a post about FB introducing Safety Check in Pakistan last year ...to help people affected by the tragedy there ....Safety Check has helped people in quite a few countries during natural and man made calamities and tragedies....
social media ...spl FB did help during so many calamities ....I hardly hear reports of the reach and change a page like HONY has thanks to FB ... or reports about ....so many social causes FB supports ....
during Startup Weekend Bahrain... I was in a team designing a free app which would get the expertise that the end users would use through crowdsourcing...not once did any of us think of the end users as being products ...
I doubt the design of FB was exploitative .... people are free to give feed back to improve FB services ....how many tech people and design people do give feed back ???
the very minute I sign up for a social media platform and post snaps ....and if anyone googles my name ...there is a chance those snaps might pop up ....I am sure we the educated should be aware of this liability when we sign up and use social media no??
why only brickbats ....
why no kudos of this scale when a social media platform got people together and helped bring about social change for the good ....
during Startup Weekend Bahrain... I was in a team designing a free app which would get the expertise that the end users would use through crowdsourcing...not once did any of us think of the end users as being products ...
I doubt the design of FB was exploitative .... people are free to give feed back to improve FB services ....how many tech people and design people do give feed back ???
the very minute I sign up for a social media platform and post snaps ....and if anyone googles my name ...there is a chance those snaps might pop up ....I am sure we the educated should be aware of this liability when we sign up and use social media no??
why only brickbats ....
why no kudos of this scale when a social media platform got people together and helped bring about social change for the good ....
walk into a hospital and we get a permanent number that we have to furnish for each subsequent visit ...all our information is stored with them...
shop in any store in any mall and can you finish paying the bill without disclosing your phone number ????
shop in any store in any mall and can you finish paying the bill without disclosing your phone number ????
heights was .....last year in Bahrain i got a call from a professional tution class or cram classes for my son....for spl coaching after school in math ....they were even open to coming home to teach one to one ...I asked how they got my number and very naïvely they told me the truth ...
the school had given out my personal number to this org ....i was shocked at how classified information was being misued by a Lazy teacher ...the maths teacher who was also the class teacher had 5 students in the 8th grade and had major issues with explanation and her work load ....
that is when i thought ...we pay through our nose for this expensive school and the class teacher fibs about most things ....was disliked by all her students and also gave out our personal numbers for a commission and an easy time in class ....
i will rather homeschool ...than pay so much and work full time with my child's school syllabus ...
a few months later a new Principal joined and he was very helpful and explained things very well to us about shifting and getting a school run by the same trust in India ....when explaining he mentioned ...how the rule about setting up schools in India is such that ...profits made by a school have to be channelled back into the school ...ergo the Bahrain branch was a loss making branch as compared to the other branches in the GCC ....ergo that trust was sending money from India and other places in the GCC to keep the Bahrain branch functioning .... hence he was going to stop the 8th grade from continuing with 5 students ....his observation rightly was that ....such a small class was detrimental to the students and faculty .... I thought that a wise move on his part ... I was glad that finally the school had got a sensible person at the helm ....and hoped things would improve ...
however
we as a civilisation are........moronic and tragic
that is when i thought ...we pay through our nose for this expensive school and the class teacher fibs about most things ....was disliked by all her students and also gave out our personal numbers for a commission and an easy time in class ....
i will rather homeschool ...than pay so much and work full time with my child's school syllabus ...
a few months later a new Principal joined and he was very helpful and explained things very well to us about shifting and getting a school run by the same trust in India ....when explaining he mentioned ...how the rule about setting up schools in India is such that ...profits made by a school have to be channelled back into the school ...ergo the Bahrain branch was a loss making branch as compared to the other branches in the GCC ....ergo that trust was sending money from India and other places in the GCC to keep the Bahrain branch functioning .... hence he was going to stop the 8th grade from continuing with 5 students ....his observation rightly was that ....such a small class was detrimental to the students and faculty .... I thought that a wise move on his part ... I was glad that finally the school had got a sensible person at the helm ....and hoped things would improve ...
however
we as a civilisation are........moronic and tragic
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