Insights On Politics, Business, and Life
It’s great to see get out there and do great things in music, entertainment, and research. However, there’s a time for everything.
Great business know when to run and when to build. Pictured above is a former Japan heart throb (Takuya Kimura or ‘Kimutaku’) in j-pop music. He’s over 40 now and attempting a come back. His fan generation is not interested.
Great business people become great because they’ve got the timing element nailed.
Facebook is the fantastically successful company founded by a sneaky son of a dentist. They make money selling your details on people. They generate cash by telling others about you.
Do We Really Need FaceBook?
People use FB for keeping up with friends and relatives. We also look for ‘likes’ from people we don’t really know. Sadly though, many relationships have been broken by FaceBook. People leaving their spouses for an old flame, others fighting over political points that really don’t matter (it’s okay to respectfully disagree), and all sorts of trash talk because people don’t get something the way they wanted. People looking for approval on the platform by being accepted as a friend or being liked. Seth Godin recently commented on how superficial our relationships are on social media, AKA social surveillance media. A friend is someone you can visit and maybe even sleep on their couch when you visit their city.
FaceBook Shares More Than You Think
Recently with the Cambridge Analytica scandal where Facebook users data was taken by third party advertisers, the world saw how loose Facebook really is. They are tough on bloggers and leaders that don’t share their morals but happy to share our information, posts, pictures as well as whatever we’ve given them as well as those who are connected with us.
FaceBook is founded on the concept of using your information to make money. They have repeated scandals about bleeding user information and giving away our data. The Cambridge Analytica revelations reveal that again. It has become the last straw for thousands.
When the founder and insider of a company that made billions of USD from being acquired by the social surveillance firm says it, it’s probably time to start listening. After all what good really is this company for society?
Time to
#deletefacebook
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(BrightCitizen.com) Donald Trump has told us repeatedly that other countries need to pay their fair share for defense. When discussing the United Nations it is true that the United States has been paying most of the bills for military related activities and more. However, Trump has leveled the same judgment on the US military bases in Japan.
Japan pays for 50% or more, for everything at the US bases in that country. If the US government does not think that is enough of the costs, it should consider phasing out and closing the bases. That would cut costs and also give the Japan government a chance to show what they’re made of.
Get spend the next 10 hours of my life on this plane.
https://youtu.be/dA42vievwZk
Clearly missed these. Thankfully don’t watch enough TV
The German Chamber of Commerce celebrated Christmas in Tokyo with great food, drink (maybe too much for a Monday night), music, and even great presents that leading international companies donated as raffle items. Wine glasses, appliances, champagne, hotel gift certificates, electronics, expensive kitchen knives, vacuum cleaners, and a lot of other classy gifts were given away to the lucky draw. It was a great event.
In the US, some say you can’t celebrate Christmas because its ‘religious’ or it might be ‘offensive’. But you can celebrate Halloween (that is also religious, of Druid origin).
When asked why some Americans are so against Christmas, one attendee said ‘Those Americans get so extreme about things’.
Christmas is a great time of the year. Yes, maybe a bit too commercialized but a great excuse to enjoy time with others. Maybe some grinches in America need to remember that.
It must be cool technology as it’s the latest and the greatest. The new iPhone X arrived today.
As high tech people, definitely need to play with this stuff. However, as the changes are incremental, these last few models of the smartphone are not that exciting.
Our best selling product is a phone service. It will be good to see how it runs our apps as thousands of people will be running them on this device as it begins to sell in Japan.
For those already using it. What do you think about your iPhone X? Worth the price?