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Study: Facebook Causes Stress, Anxiety, But Keeps Us Hooked, Anyway

Pakistan IT — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:01:05 +0000

Some Facebook users may enjoy collecting hundreds of virtual friends, but it turns out that those online relationships can cause a lot of stress, as well.

That’s what researchers at Edinburgh Napier University discovered after conducting a survey of 200 students who regularly use the social networking site. Among the students who were surveyed, 12-percent said they actually dislike receiving friend requests, while 63-percent said they often delay responding to requests. More than one out of every 10 users said that the site made them anxious, and about three out of ten claimed to feel guilty about rejecting friend requests. Others said they felt pressure to come up with inventive status updates, and didn’t enjoy having to apply different rules of online etiquette to different friends.

But, if Facebook causes so much stress, why do so many people use it? According to lead researcher Dr. Kathy Charles, the “overwhelming majority” of students said they rely on the site to keep in touch with their friends, and many said they won’t delete their accounts because they don’t want to miss out on something important or offend others.

This pressure, Charles says, keeps Facebook users in a constant state of “neurotic limbo, not knowing whether they should hang on in there just in case they miss out on something good.” Many of the students surveyed, however, weren’t all that enthusiastic about the real or perceived benefits that the site offers. “[A]lthough there is great pressure to be on Facebook there is also considerable ambivalence amongst users about its benefits,” Charles explained. “And we found it was actually those with the most contacts, those who had invested the most time in the site, who were the ones most likely to be stressed.”

Charles speculated that many users may feel anxious because of the site’s intrinsically self-centered structure. “It’s like being a mini news channel about yourself. The more people you have the more you feel there is an audience there,” Charles told the BBC. “You are almost a mini celebrity and the bigger the audience the more pressure you feel to produce something about yourself.”source: BBC

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Internet 2010 in Numbers [Summary]

Pakistan IT — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:43:48 +0000

Internet without any doubt has become an important part of our daily life routine. Every segment of a society especially professionals, students, kids and even senior citizens browse around this amazing sphere of ‘networks of networks’ as per their interest of usage.

From sending a simple text e-mail to viewing streaming movie video, Internet is there behind the scene.

Pingdom, an Internet research company has carried out an interesting exercise to identify what happened over the world of Internet during 2010. The numbers calculated by them show some appealing and astonishing information such as average number of e-mails sent per day during 2010 were 294 billion, 25 billion tweets sent on Twitter in 2010, 2 billion videos were watched per day over YouTube and 250 million new people joined Face book during 2010.

Following is the detail statistics provided by Royal Pingdom on various segments of Internet.

Email

107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
480 million – New email users since the year before.
89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.

Websites

255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.
21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.

Web servers

39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.
15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.
4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.
5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.
55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.

Domain names

88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.
13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.
8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.
79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users

14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.
63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media

25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.
30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Web browsers

Videos

2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images

3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.

Focus Made an infographic of the same information in following manner:

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Ufone Solid Offer

Pakistan IT — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:43:11 +0000

Ufone’s here with yet another brilliant offer!

Now for the first time in Pakistan, with Ufone Solid Offer, you will be flooded with free talk time! Talk for just 3 minutes and get the rest of your call free! There’s no need to wait for a specific time because this offer is valid 24 hours a day.

So whether its day or night, the more you talk, the more affordable your calls get!

Process to avail Ufone’s Solid Offer:

Source Package	Solid Offer	SMS following command to 444	Opt In Charges (Exclusive of Taxes)
Tension Free Package	Tension Free-Solid Offer	32	Rs.10
UWon	UWon-Solid Offer	32	Rs.10
PPD	PPD-Solid Offer	32	Rs.10
Josh/Josh2	Josh-Solid Offer	32	Rs.10

Terms and Conditions:

	This offer is only valid for Ufone to Ufone
	This offer is valid for UWon, Tension Free, Public Demand and Josh packages
	Terms and conditions apply
	This offer is not valid on bundle offers
	This is a limited time offer
	19.5% FED on usage and 10% withholding tax at recharge or bill applies.
	Using SIMS without proper documentation is a crime – PTA

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Mobilink SIM Lagao Offer

Pakistan IT — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:09:33 +0000

Keeping the tradition of the largest prepaid family in Pakistan, JAZZ welcomes all its family members with wide open arms. Living up to this promise, JAZZ brings forward its latest SIM Lagao Offer! All such subscribers who have not used their Jazz SIMs since 8th November, 2009, can get 50 upfront free minutes as well as Extra Bonus Minutes on recharge up to Rs. 100, every month for three months upon reactivation by sending an SMS to 550.

Terms & Conditions

All subscribers who have not done any outgoing or incoming activity since 8th November, 2009 are eligible for this promotion.
Subscribers can win 50 free On-net minutes by sending an SMS to 550
The free minutes will be posted within 48 hours after a subscriber sends an SMS to 550, these minutes will be valid for 5 days. Free minutes will be posted on first SMS (to 550) only. If a subscriber sends multiple SMS on 550, he will be posted free minutes only once.
All those subscribers who send SMS on 550 and recharge their accounts will get additional free minutes bonus for three months, which will be equal to the first recharge amount of the month via Jazz load or scratch card. The maximum bonus on recharge given to a subscriber will be 100 minutes in one month. Example: A subscriber who loads Rs. 300 will get maximum of 100 minutes in one month

Each installment will be equal to value of 1st recharge transaction in the previous month

Feb – 1st installment equal to 1st recharge between 15th Dec-31st January
Mar – 2nd installment equal to 1st recharge between 1st Feb-29th Feb
April- 3rd installment equal to 1st recharge between 1st Mar-31st Mar

The monthly bonus minutes given on the first recharge of the month will be posted after 10th of the following month
For February bonus, only the first recharge after hitting short code 550 will be considered, for bonus in subsequent months first recharge of the month will be considered
Any recharge transferred through Jazz Share will be excluded from bonus award
Customers will be intimated about the posting of free minutes and bonus on recharge by SMS
Customers who have lost their SIMs can get new SIMs free of cost
This is a limited time offer

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A Young Revolutionary Genius

Pakistan IT — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:16:27 +0000

Adnan Sabzwari is a proud Pakistani living in the city of lights – Karachi. Throughout his life, Adnan has spent days and nights pursuing his every dream and then conquering it. Adnan says: “If one has firm believe in Allah and is devoted to his cause then he can conquer everything.”

Adnan is a genius whose work can not be acknowledged just with awards. He is a young scientist who has given a new path to the youngsters of Pakistan, he is a Scale-Modeler, 3D Animator, Graphic Designer and also a Teacher. He has been through thick and thin both but he never got de-motivated. Everything he has done and achieved is due to his sheer hard work and dedication to his work.

He even denied an offer by the British Ambassador to come to UK and complete his research work. Adnan’s research work is always related to the general public and has come up with revolutionary designs to solve the common problems of Pakistan like load shedding, transport issues and educational problems of students.

Right now Adnan is in need of funds to complete his research work and is looking for sponsors. If you can help this Proud Pakistani you will be actually helping the whole Pakistan. Spend a rupee to make a better Pakistan.

Enjoy the following interview of Adnan in a morning show of AJJ TV.

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History Of The Internet

Pakistan IT — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:19:17 +0000

We use Internet all the time, but the majority know not much about the history of it. While browsing YouTube, I got a chance to see the “History Of The Internet” in this animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

I am sure you will enjoy watching this.

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