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April 15, 2009

The key to success

What is your happiness?
“RT @nadiraHanif Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”
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April 14, 2009

Scientists warn of Twitter and Facebook dangers

Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, CNN says.
New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain’s “moral compass” to process and could harm young people’s [...]

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April 13, 2009

Staring at your loved ones

What is your happiness?
“happiness is staring at your loved ones while they sleep. I’m not creepy though… I’m just happy!”
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April 10, 2009

Happiness is often found in weekly rituals.

What is your happiness?
“Roasting day followed with an afternoon visit to Kopplins (St. Paul). Happiness is often found in weekly rituals.”
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April 9, 2009

Does the Internet make us happy?

Nearly every prominent element of the human environment - from housing, to family, to diet, to climate - has been implicated in countless analyses of its correlation with human happiness. The Web, and how we use it, however, has not been.
In searching (the Web) for thinkers who have given thought to a correlation between happiness [...]

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New: nomophobia

Getting married, starting a job or going to the dentist have long been recognised as sources of great stress. But it seems they are now matched by a new, peculiarly 21st century affliction - the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Millions apparently suffer from “no mobile phobia” which has been given the name [...]

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“Twitter breaks marriages”

Meat Tony and Ashley. Ashley wants to leave Tony because he’s totally addicted to Twitter. She says that her man is chatting all the time, even when they’re watching TV or are in the bedroom.

Still there are also marriages that are the result of Twitter-usage!

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April 8, 2009

Happiness is about cars

What is your happiness?
“Happiness is passing the smog test with flying colours. Especially when your car is an old beast of a sports car. ”
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April 7, 2009

Happiness is business

What is your happiness?
“happiness is: selling out of a special on a 100 cover monday night…”
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April 5, 2009

More productive when allowed to use the internet for leisure at work

Surfing the net at work for pleasure actually increases our concentration levels and helps make a more productive workforce, according to a new University of Melbourne study.
Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t.
“People who [...]

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