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I thought the popularity contest ended years ago with high school. It hasn’t. Worse, it is back with a vengeance, in a worldwide forum.

That said, I also thought breakouts would end as I exited my teen years. But, clearly (or not) they still enter my life from time to time.

This new-age popularity contest however, is getting bigger and will widen the gap between the social media freaks and geeks. In this case, it’s the geeks who are the cool ones.

And as is the case, social media is dictating a new world order. For if Facebook is the world’s third largest country, then the Internet is its first.

Thus, the geeks shall inherit the Earth.

 
 
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It is the most important point of progress of the moment.

It is a game changer.

It is a life changer.

And it is one of the most talked about things in the world today…

The New Facebook Profile. Or as I like to call it, the Old Facebook Profile. Yeah, I’m ahead of the times like that.


 
 
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The other day, I gave my eight-year-old nephew an awesome present for his birthday. One I wished for at eight years old. One I could never have as a kid, because of six letters: D, A, H, L, I, A.

I gave him a sign for his bedroom door – with his name on it – even though he too has a unique name.

You see, in a futile effort to be uncommon, there is the mutilation of common names like, say, Khrystee and Timh. And then, with the advent of celebrity baby (read: publicity) names such as Kyd, Apple, Kal-El, and Moonblood, toy and novelty manufacturers have finally accepted that there are more than 20 names out there. Hence, they now give stickers to spell your own moniker.

So, great gift, right? It was … until the not-yet-even-a-tween opened the iPod touch from his mom.