How to get well with Social Networking? – Kasa Karu – eHow To?
The world has changed a lot today. Thanks to technology and the internet, the view of the world is no more as a far off / far away places, but is more and more becoming a global village and it seems to shrink day after day. Gone is the time and the era when connecting to our friends and family was very difficult and costly. Now, crystal clear voice, high speed transactions, sharing of high definition and high quality videos and photos is the demand of the world and you don't need a passport or legal document to do that. Such technology is right in our hands through the 4 inch by 2 inch smartphone which works on amazing technology giving you the best of services available in the market. Even Plus to that, gadgets are not worth a million but are getting cheaper day after day. The visionaries have even said, may be you don't get to eat, but you will have a phone in your hand. Such is the situation of our world. Right from 1971, when the first email was sent to tonnes of transactions and socializing has given a completely new face and which is getting better and better, day after day. Today, services like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and the score of other services are being used by every 1 in 4 people on the Earth.
With every new technology and advancement, new health statuses come in and when looked into with every care, can have a deep impact on our behavior, how we talk, how we act and our mental health and wellbeing.
Since the past few years, there have been researches and news going on about Facebook use can be a cause to raise anxiety and may start developing a feeling of inadequacy and inferiority complex. Another study done by Social Psychiatrist Ethan Cross from Michigan University has found that Facebook usage can make feel miserable. According the the psychiatrist, Facebook becomes a very significant source to accomplish our needs of being social. But because of the so much detailed nature and the way Facebook can connect with your life, it may many a times undermine your feeling of being a normal being or being important and may give rise to feelings of being inferior.
Would this be true or how does this affect your life? This article describes about such feelings and what can be done for the same.
The development of web designing and MarkUp languages gave birth to features like interaction. In the very basic form of interaction, was being able to feed some data to a website and getting a result page from the data. So, people could make use of such features to make website calculators. You put in the numbers, and the calculator gives you a result. Further more, you could start Googling about words and getting related results to read. Search Engines developed further and started understanding and using innumerable parameters to "understand" you and give you results in the a manner that you would expect to get. Now this same ability in a more enhanced, versatile and flexible manner allows you to put up videos, photos, allows commenting and allows and promotes interaction with each other. So, the first such site I can remember for myself was Orkut by Google. A completely new concept and everyone loved Orkut in those days. Parents started becoming worried about what is their child doing on this new type of site quite alien to them and started sniffing around their child. Internet bills started going up thanks to the functionality that Orkut was bringing in.
Just as Orkut was growing up, a new competitor came in with much better resources, layout, games, lots of interaction and fun and in the name of Facebook. Zuckerberg made a strong landing in the world of Social Media, in such a way that the Internet giant with Orkut, had to drop down Orkut and had to strive hard on this platform. They brought in other builds like the Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Circles and then finally settling up to Google Plus which is now the world's second largest (as to this date) Social network after Facebook. Other popular networks are MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn as a professional network and Bebo.
A citizen of the world who has access to these Social Networks may spend many hours of their life on these Social Networks and some of them may in fact spend time tweaking up their profiles and appearances on Social Networks because it has now become a status symbol for many of us. Whatsmore, the cops search for information about people through the Social Networks. Recruiters try to find information about the candidate from his social networks. If any untoward activity is found out on the candidates social profiles, the companies may directly reject the candidate from their candidature for the recruitment. Bachelors searching for their better halves search on the social networks to get more information about them. In the olden days, our parents used to depend on finding out information about the prospective bride or the prospective groom by asking other people who might be in relation or connection. Now along with that strategy, they are also finding it easy to find information on the internet as well.
Well, first this question sounds absurd! One could say, everyone likes it and thats it! If we look at it in a little closer manner, Social media is more like a reinforcement, which is compelling enough to make you come back. Statistics show that 63% of American Facebook users come online daily and nearly 40% of them log into FB for multiple times in a day. Some of us like to "Like" others' statuses, some of like to tell about what we are doing and some of us like to show off about their travelling to distant countries! Yet some of us come to search for our friends and try to get in touch with someone whom we had met and had good friendship or a relation about 15 years back and then didn't get a chance to meet them after school / college. But overall, social media is becoming a important tool for self distraction and boredom relief. This has been prominently seen in women whose husbands are working and engaged in their own world and whose sons and daughters are grown up and in their own lives. So, while television is becoming boring, Social Media comes as a rescuer and also many a times as a part time task for them.
So, not only age but also activity, demand and requirement have been a need for the day and thus the importance of Social Media have raised.
Social Media has also taken the advantage of your phones by allowing free calls and free sms through services like Viber and Whatsapp, WeChat, BBM, Line (to name a few), which do not even require you to register and are free. Whatsapp asks for a meagre 1 US Dollar to renew for the next year. This has also become a challenge for Skype which requires you to register with Skype ID and then get in touch with your Skype contacts. But Skype has very good sound for sure, but that does not mean it is the only one. It also has tough competition. People are getting services and they are also very cheap and easy to gain that it does give rise to addictions.
Other researches have also postulated that people who may be anxious and socially insecure by nature, may use and stick to internet based social networking and related websites. Thus, more likes and more +1 means that you will be more happier and will try and perform activities to gain more of them and this vicious circle continues.
Just as we discussed above, more likes and +1s, means more happiness and when a person does not get them, it makes them feel bad and feel unwanted. People who are not "Liked", feel less confident in their real life and may feel to have fallen behind their friends in achievements in comparison to their friends.
One thing that a person must understand over here is "All that glitters is not Gold." A person may display an idealized version of his or her life and may not be the actual truth. So, behind all the great happy jumps and super cool photos, there could be the other aspect of the person's life, which could be serious, challenging or sad, which may not be put up on social media. This is basic human nature where they may not want to show out their "not so good" side of life and would share it with only their near and dear people. This is natural. But other people, who tend to compare themselves, may now think themselves to be coward, discouraged, unhappy and these feelings even trickle down in their real lives.
Bullying has been seen prominent among children and on social media is known as Cyberbullying. An activity which dominating children may put on knowingly or unknowingly on other children. Such activities are done for pleasure, but the recessive children feel negative about it and can get themselves into a "cocoon" and get into a depressive kind of stage which gets into their nature, real world activities and interactions.
u again switch on your device. Real life is not like that. Once you switch it off, you will have to wait until the next human birth that you may get after seven or eight rebirths and even after you get a human rebirth, you will have to wait for a few years until you learn that phones are not meant to be put in the mouth, but are devices to see Facebook!
So, stay limited and stay long. keep Walking! says Johnnie Walker. When taking a limited and not a overexposed part in Internet Social media, could make you feel better, happier and keep continuing longer on such services without any mental or nervous breakdown.
Thus overall, understand the fact that internet, communication and socialism is a need of the day. But if you become a lot socio, like sharing about "I opened my left eye first when I woke up in the morning because my right eye was a bit sticky — feeling amused"; is too much and unwanted by others. No one will like it and will make you feel go haywire! But, just like "An Apple a Day keeps the doctor away", "A peg of wine keeps you pink and healthy"; it can be rightly said that social media and mental health are closely related to each other and will always be!
Posted byAmruta August 13, 2014 January 30, 2016 Posted inEducation, How to, Technology, WebTags: How to get well with Social Networking?
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In this paper, we comprehensively study the resistance of keyed variants of SHA-3 (Keccak) against algebraic attacks. This analysis covers a wide range of key recovery, MAC forgery and other types of attacks, breaking up to 9 rounds (out of the full 24) of the Keccak internal permutation much faster than exhaustive search. Moreover, some of our attacks on the 6-round Keccak are completely practical and were verified on a desktop PC. Our methods combine cube attacks (an algebraic key recovery attack) and related algebraic techniques with structural analysis of the Keccak permutation. These techniques should be useful in future cryptanalysis of Keccak and similar designs.
Although our attacks break more rounds than previously published techniques, the security margin of Keccak remains large. For Keyak – the Keccak-based authenticated encryption scheme – the nominal number of rounds is 12 and therefore its security margin is smaller (although still sufficient).


Now that the UK is exiting the EU, Cyprus is becoming the most popular forex destination in Europe. We believe this is mainly due to the well-balanced financial regulation in this island country and the fact that it is a part of the European Union.
Forex brokers in Cyprus are referred to as Cypriot Investment Firms (CIFs) are required to meet a set of requirements and to adhere to certain rules, thus insuring the financial soundness and customer protection in the country. The governmental agency in charge of licensing and overseeing the activities of CIF is the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC).
– Minimum Capital Requirement – CIFs must hold at least €730 000, which guarantees that the company is financially stable and has a serious long-term approach.
– Client Account Segregation – Whenever clients deposit money in their trading accounts, it is kept separate from the broker's operating funds. Thus the clients' money remains shielded in case of mishaps like a broker's bankruptcy.
– Compensation Scheme – All brokers licensed in Cyprus are members of the Investor Compensation Fund, which may cover a maximum of 20,000 EUR per person in the event of broker insolvency.
– MiFID applies – Under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive every CySEC-regulated investment company is entitled to offer its services to citizens of all EEA countries, without further hassle.
– Transaction reporting – Cypriot forex brokers are required to report their clients' transactions on a regular basis. This requirement and other wide-ranging MiFID measures are designed to improve investor protection and promote market integrity and transparency.
Speaking of MiFID and financial regulation on a European level, we have to mention another benefit of doing business with a CySEC-regulated broker, which is about to change. Until recently, there wasn't a limitation on the maximum leverage provided by brokerages in Europe (except in Poland). Cypriot brokers were free to offer leverage of 1:500 or higher. As such high leverage can create immense levels of risk, which often prove to be devastating for unsophisticated clients, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) introduced a leverage cap of 1:30, which will take effect as of August 1, 2018.
That being said, the complete set of restrictions on the provision of contracts for differences (CFDs) to retail investors imposed by ESMA includes other measures, which protect the interests of traders. Most importantly, the EU regulator obliges all brokers to provide negative balance protection on a per account basis, which means that investors cannot lose more than they have deposited.
Below, you can find some of the best forex brokers, regulated in Cyprus.


Today in MetalCrawler we're happy to report new investment in cold-rolled steel production and 100 new industry jobs. Novelis continues to do its part for recycled aluminum products, too.
Novelis, Inc. has launched the first independently certified material to be made of 100% recycled aluminum.
The first product in the evercycle portfolio is designed for aluminum food containers. It is certified by SCS Global Services to contain 100% recycled aluminum, made up of 90% post-consumer content and 10% customer manufacturing scrap.
Evercycle is commercially available now in North America and it expects it to become available elsewhere soon.
Ferrous CAL Co. of Cleveland plans to invest $53 million in the former McLouth Steel and Detroit Cold Rolling plant in Gibraltar, Mich.
The Wayne County Commission voted unanimously recently to OK a brownfield cleanup for the mostly inactive steel plant site.
Ferrous CAL bought the plant last month and plans to upgrade and clean the 42.5-acre site to produce steel for automotive companies and other customers. The company expects to create 100 jobs as part of its investment, and 15 employees who were already working at the site will keep their jobs.