Thursday, December 11, 2008

Fraud Online Relationships

Be very careful when you meet someone online for a friendship or romantic relationship. The person you think are talking to may not be the person you think it is. It happens all the time people not only pretend to be someone else by lying about their age, gender, physical looks, or even personalities. I read an article about a woman who had an online romance for a year which turned out to be a fraud. The woman got an email from someone saying they had a mutual friend that said that they would get along. She contacted the friend and she said that the man was a good person. She had a online relationship and would text message each other too. The man always wanted to meet but always made an excuse last minute. Her parents got worried so they found out through the telephone number that the man was actually a woman. It was her friend that had said that the man was a good guy. She was fell in love with this old friend but did not realize it. She had known personal things about her and used it to her advantage in trying to get her to fall for her. The woman broke it off when she found out it was her old friend. She never found out if it was a joke or if the woman really loved her but could not or would not be honest about her feelings. She tried to get her to fall in love with her on the pretext that she was a man online, which was a lie. So be careful who you trust online because it may not be the person of your dreams. Online relationships can be a good way to start a relationship for some people but the final aim is to meet face to face and you may be not be happy when you finally start one in the real world. If you do get into a relationship online and plan to meet them in reality always meet them in a public place with a trusting friend to help you in case it does not turn out the way you expected. Especially younger users should be very careful about who they meet because they can be taken advantage of even easier. Love can happen online but don't take everything they say as the truth. Be honest yourself and be critical of how they act online. There are lots of good stories of people meeting the right mate for themselves but don't become one of the bad stories. Be careful and always protect yourself online and offline. It is great to fall in love but it hurts when you are taken advantage of and your dream person online falls short offline. Romance is not perfect in any setting but give it a shot and it may turn out be great but don't be too disappointed when it turns out badly.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

self mowing lawn mowers

I checked out the self mowers online and they look very useful. These mowers are the wave of the future and can put many landscapers out of business in the future but they are not there yet. There are still very expensive and there are still some bugs in them. You need to have a pretty open backyard and can't have any little objects in it's path. Major things like bushes and trees it will avoid. I just worry how much they will scare off your dog in the backyard. It is a great tool for busy people to have their lawn mowed without having to do it yourself. I still enjoy mowing the lawn but if I am too busy this machine is very interesting. You don't need to even be there it will dock itself when it needs to recharge itself. You need to instal an invisible fence around your lawn and it is still pretty pricey but the convenience is there. This is the same technology as the self vacume cleaner. It has a smart intelligence computer and sensors that allow it to mow your lawn without a human control. It is where artificial intelligence is going but it may have some negative effects of people becoming more lazy in doing simple tasks that are apart of our lives. It may eliminate jobs and the fear is when too many machines do these jobs they replace our labor force. If it starts here it may not stop at that. What other jobs will they replace and how far will we let it go. It is difficult to see a future of robots doing every simple task and even more difficult ones. If they begin to replace our jobs and tasks will we use this extra time in a productive way or will we just become more lazy. This technology is here and it is not going away but has not really diffused into mainstream because of the price and some people still enjoy mowing their lawn. If the machines do the job better will we prefer a machine over a human doing the task? Would you buy one for yourself? Is it worth the money?