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What's wrong with simple advice?
I have noticed lots of people have to my blog searching for "my instagram is posting spam". They have been ending up to my post about getting rid of spam on Instagram. It's a collection of tips on how to avoid spam (as far as it can be) and how to report it. In the comment section some people have been asking me what to do when their accounts have been compromised. Their accounts were posting spammy images. Or their accounts are posting spam comments. Why is that happening and how to stop it? There are several things that may have happened. Either it's a case of old fashioned hacking. Pe...
Impostor
"I feel embarrassed to call myself an artist now." It was a boost to my confidence to read those words. How many times had I said or thought something like that? I had been admiring someone else's detailed drawings or gorgeous paintings and felt like a total fraud. Someone else saying that to me, it was a weird feeling. In the next turn my mind headed back to that same old feeling of embarrassment, feeling like a fraud. Why would anyone feel like that because of me? Is he making fun of me? It's known as impostor phenomenon or impostor syndrome, and it is pretty common. An article p...
Be advised
Someone somewhere saw my post about how people don't know even their own email addresses. He approached me telling how he doesn't have this problem, and with instructions of ways I could get rid of the problem too. Not really the point of my post, but thanks anyways. He tried to force me a thought that I should not use gmail, nor use firstname.lastname combo. Sort of like if someone keeps sending to my postal address mail intended to another person, and the solution was that I would change my address. I was being advised about how to avoid other people from making mistakes. I didn't ask fo...
What's my email?
Today I received an email to my Gmail address from a strange building manager. He asked for more information about a complaint I apparently had made via an online form. Before I even looked further into the email I knew what the case was: The person, called Mervi Eskelinen, filling the online form had given the wrong email address. This wasn't the first time for something like this happening. Just a little while ago I was emailed an electronic train ticket with a students discount, a ticket I obviously hadn't bought. I have also received information about a senior's gymnastics class being resc...
Guilty pleasures
Last night I was drawing and the television was on at the background. I wasn't really paying attention to the programming, but at some point the show was cut to the commercials. I only listened. The first ad was for a well known and well trusted Finnish company and brand. They were selling yogurt. The assuring voice explained how the product has the "same good taste" with less sugar. The voice told that one is "allowed to enjoy" this yogurt. The ad that followed was promoting cosmetics, a facial cream or something like that. Another assuring voice declared how it was "allowed to enjoy" a...
How you are doing everything wrong
Have you seen that joke women's magazine cover which was making rounds on Facebook? The cover features multiple fake headlines, such as You look so old and Women richer than you wearing things. One of the phoney headlines took my attention. The headline was How you are doing everything wrong with a subtitle And other ways we are trying to control how you think. I don't myself read that much of these magazines, but I found it very familiar. These types of articles are all over the web. Every day you can go about and read about your mistakes in using social media and how living a lif...
Get a Second Life
Not that long ago I had a nice little chat with Richard MacManus, the Founder and Editor Emeritus of ReadWrite. He Tweeted an article about Second Life. In this article the writer was surprised of how many people still use SL. I replied to Richard that I happen to rent an island in Second Life which sparked the conversation. He had briefly tried SL back in 2004 and asked me what a person does with and island. I tried to explain, but noticed soon it was like trying to explain what people do with Facebook to someone who has used Facebook briefly in 2004. That is pretty impossible. Fi...
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