No Selfie Day - March 16

No Selfies Day is a day that is celebrated every year on March 16 in order to raise awareness of the epidemic of selfies and its negative impact on our lives. The world we live in is now severely affected by the deadly COVID19 plague that has killed so many lives. But there is another epidemic that is seriously affecting our lives and it is the epidemic of selfies, which is mostly characteristic of young people. This epidemic stems from the development of technology in the field of photography that has taken photography to the next level. As a result, anyone who has a smartphone has ever taken selfies. The advantage of taking a selfie is that you can take a picture of yourself without asking anyone else to do it, and show that you were in a beautiful and special place. You can also take lots of pictures to choose the best one, but the problem is that there are millions of people who are addicted to it and take dozens if not hundreds of selfies a day, which is why they call selfies a plague. Selfie photography has become an addiction that destroys the lives of many people. People take pictures of themselves and then upload the picture to the social network and expect to get attention, and this desire affects their mood because many people get depressed because they have not received enough likes. Another problem is the waste of time of the test if they received enough likes and the comparison to how many likes they received at other times, the test of who did the likes and who did not, and in short - a complete waste of time on nonsense!

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The selfie phenomenon has also claimed lives. More than 330 people from around the world lost their lives in the pursuit of the perfect selfie image - some fell off cliffs, others drowned in rivers and some were run over to death by trains. There were also people who committed suicide because of depression due to the lack of attention they received to their selfies.

Another problem of selfies is what has become the concept of social beauty. Beauty is perceived as a perfect face and to get such a face, we can not use our real photos but add filters or use photo editing software. Filters that thicken the lips, that smooth the skin and keep us away from the truth. This need for falsification of reality is accompanied by a decrease in self-esteem. Because when we are out of selfies, it makes us feel not pretty and good enough.

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The origin of No Selfies Day

It is not known who created the No selfies day and when they started celebrating it, but who created the No selfies day did so for a good reason. He intended to make people addicted to selfies understand the negative effects of the addiction.

A study found that on average girls spend an hour and twenty-four minutes each week trying to take the perfect selfie. It's just the time she spends in photography, but what about the time she spends checking the likes?

The UK and India have the highest rate of Facebook users in the world and as a result also the highest rate of deaths as a result of attempts to take selfies in the world. Authorities in these countries have already declared areas where selfies are not allowed. Two universities, Indian and British, conducted a study among 400 participants and concluded that a real mental disorder can be diagnosed around selfies. According to the study, people who take and upload more than 6 selfies a day to social networks suffer from severe Selfitis, which interferes with daily functioning. Anyone who takes 3-6 pictures still suffers from Selfitis, but one that you can live with.

How to celebrate the day without selfies?

The best way to mark No Selfies Day is to simply not take selfies of the day. If you feel it is affecting you badly, a sign that you are addicted. Be careful not to take pictures of yourself or upload your photos to social media. Encourage other people not to take selfies to stay away from this psychologically devastating disease. If you know someone who is really addicted to selfies, help them get rid of this addiction disorder. Use the hashtag #NoSelfiesDay to spread the word on social media instead of posting your selfies.

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March 16 is also Panda Day and Freedom Of Information Day

Facebook's birthday - February 4

Congratulations to Facebook, the social network that celebrates its birthday today. It seems to have always been here, but in fact it is only 17 years old.

The Facebook site was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Andrew McCollum who were Harvard students.

At first only students from Harvard were allowed to join the network but on September 11, 2006 it was opened to the general public, and today it is the largest online social network in the world and is available in more than 70 languages, with over a billion users.

In honor of Facebook's birthday, get some interesting facts about the site that has become an integral part of your life:

1. The average user spends 40 minutes on Facebook every day.

2. People who have a smartphone check Facebook an average of 14 times a day.

The average user has 130 Facebook friends.

4. 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts daily.

5. One of the languages ​​offered on Facebook that you can change in your preferences is the language of the "pirates".

6. The first face that appeared on Facebook's Facebook screen in 2007, of a guy with a tough bluish look, was that of Al Pacino.

7. Some people were murdered for canceling friendships with someone on Facebook.

8. There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.

9. Facebook has a feature that allows you to designate a person to manage your account after your death.

10. Facebook keeps track of which sites you visit, even after you leave it.

11. According to studies, 1 in 3 people feel more dissatisfied with their life after visiting Facebook.

12. Facebook's color is mostly blue, because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness.

13. The "Like" button on Facebook was originally supposed to be called "Awesome".

14. Every minute 1.8 million likes are made across Facebook.

15. Mark Zuckerberg cannot be blocked on Facebook.

16. Mark Zuckerberg's salary as CEO of Facebook is only one dollar.

17. Since 2009, the sites Facebook, Twitter and the New York Times have been blocked in China.

18. Despite the block, Facebook has 95 million users in China.

19. Facebook does not allow the posting of photos of breastfeeding women.

20. When Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, he bragged about people trusting him and posting personal information on his site. He called them "Dumb f * cks."

21. Facebook earns an average of $ 5.85 per citizen in the US.

22. In the UK, a woman was sent to 20 months in prison for creating fake Facebook profiles and sending herself abusive messages.

23. 8.7% of Facebook accounts are fake.

24. In 2013, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $ 1 billion to charity, making him the largest charity donor in the United States.

On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg gave birth to a daughter, whose name is Max, and he promised at the time of her birth that he would contribute about 99% of the value of Facebook shares to charity during his lifetime.

26. Facebook spends about $ 30 million a month just on hosting the site.

27. Every minute the Facebook site is shut down, it loses $ 25,000.

28. In 2005, the website Myspace was in talks to buy Facebook, but rejected the deal because of the price Mark Zuckerberg asked for, $ 75 million, which seemed too expensive to him.

29. In 2009, one of the founders of Whatsapp, Brian Acton, was not hired by Facebook. Five years later, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $ 19 billion.

30. In 2014, a Minnesota burglar was caught after logging in to his Facebook account on a computer at home and forgetting to log out.

31. Any text you enter in the status box is sent to Facebook servers, even if you did not click "Post".

32. According to a study by a doctor from Ohio University, Facebook users have on average fewer years of schooling than people who do not use Facebook.

February 4 is also Cancer Day, Homemade soup day and Sri Lanka Independence Day

Unfriend Day- 17th November

How many friends do you have on facebook? How many of them do you realy know and consider as friends?

The Unfriend day is the day to make your list of friends shorter and based on the quality, not the quantity.

So who are the people you should unfriend today? warning: this is an unfriendly post but with a humor. Don't take it seriously.

If you have a lot of friends on facebook, you probably know how it feels when you have more than 200 facebook friends but only 10% respond to your post. Unfriend those trolls! 

When you have too many friends, you probably know this annoying friends that post pictures of their kids sitting on the audience chairs in the theatre and watching movies. Every time it's a different movie but the same kids, the same picture. Unfriends those nuts!

You have thoe friends that when there's a post about something terrible that happened and they find it as an opportinity to advertise their business in comments? Unfriends those tactless!

You have those friends who post things like "good news coming soon" or "lol" and you don't understand what are they talking about? Hey, your wall is not a film trailer! Unfriend those mysteries people!

You have those friends who share posts about missing boy from 2013? unfriend those non-current- people!

You have those friends that when you write a smart and witty post and get only 4 likes, they post "I'm tired" and get 1,000,000 likes. Unfriend these popular people! they're only make you jelous!

I don't know what happens in your country, but in mine, when someone post something that smells like left political view, he gets curses and condemnation and people wish him to die. There is no freedom of speech in facebook. Unfriend people who are not tolerant to other people opinions.

You have those friends who post their selfie and write a beatiful statement. Okay, you're beautiful and smart. Unfriend these people- they only make you lookk ugly!

You have those friends whom you talked to only one time, and than you received a friend request from them and you confirmed and now you have to see all their lives in front of you, all their family, all the things they eat, all the places they're are going, like you care, Unfriend these people? who are they anyway?

You have those friends that write you "How are you?" In response to your uploaded image. What do you want? to start a conversation about my sucks life? ask me on private! Unfriend these annoying people!

So you deleted a lot of friends, and now you see that the number of friends got smaller and you don't know who you cancelled and who cancelled you, now you have to deal with this unknowing truth and maybe it's not such a nice feeling. But it's ok, you don't need fake friends in your life.

 November 17 is also Baklava Day and World Prematurity Day

Social Media Day - June 30

Once upon a time there was no such thing as a "social media." People would call each other on the phone or send letters and if anyone was traveling abroad he would send postcards with pictures of the place. Did you live in that period? At that time of course there were social networks, but they were completely different, with no computer mediating between people.

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Once to keep up with the news people would read newspapers and magazines, then came radio and television, and only at the end did the internet come. These forms of mass communication - communication that reaches a multitude of people at once - are very important in a democracy, because this is how citizens are constantly updated on current events and important issues, and in a democracy "the public's right to know" is one of the basic foundations.

But the internet can do much more than just blow up with written information and visual news. Thanks to it, people can communicate with each other in the fastest way when it comes to any topic and news that is published, and they can also make connections through it. They can share personal and news photos, digital creations like memes and GIFs, and they can also post business ads easily and for free.

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Already at the beginning of the Internet age there were efforts to support social networks through computer communication like forums and chats. In the late 90's, personal profiles became a central feature of social networking sites and they made it possible to find friends with common interests. In 2004, Facebook was launched and in 2009 it became the largest social networking site in the world. Twitter was launched in 2006 and at the end of 2012 it had over 500 million users. In 2011 Google launched Google+ but in April 2019 the service was shut down. In the following years came more social networks like Instagram, Snapshot and more.

A Globalwebindex report found that the most common social media platforms today (2019) are (in order, with the most common use being # 1):

1. Facebook

2. YouTube

3. WhatsApp

4. Instagram

5. Twitter

6. LinkedIn

7. Skype

8. Snapshot

9. Pinterest

10. Tumblr

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The report further revealed that most YouTube users are guests who have not logged into their accounts or are not friends even in the first place.

Most YouTube users are between the ages of 16 and 24.

The 16-24 age group is more active on Instagram than the 55-64 age group.

The site that founded Social Media Day is Mashable, a news site that focuses on social media and technology. He created this special day in 2010.

Today's idea is to recognize and celebrate social media and its contribution to education, journalism, entertainment and citizenship.

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It is impossible not to mention that social media also has some really bad effects, as well as having many good effects.

Because of the ease of social media communication that results from it not being done physically but behind screens, people allow themselves to be violent and hurt each other on the network. This is something that must be addressed as soon as possible, because even though communication is done between computers, there are real people who are harmed by it. In honor of Social Networking Day you should remember and memorize it.

Another danger in the social media we have been witnessing lately is the phenomenon of fake news, which is spreading very quickly among people and influencing decision making. It is important to be aware that a lot of information that comes to us from social networks is false and that we need to check everything with reliable sources.

June 30 is also Meteor watch day and Anniversary of the Tunguska Event