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10 WEIRD WHATSAPP UPDATES

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Why are people using the WhatsApp update templates like they don't have keypads? Well, they piss me off if they stay for long,man...things gotta change, your life ain't that static:

1. Someone on his status "Sleeping" (Updated: 3 days ago)
He's probably dead.

2. Someone is "Driving" updated 5 days ago!
I guess by now he has reached Cairo by now and his fuel costs can be redeemed with a Title Deed. Or maybe the guy has a running stomach and missed the Swahili translation of it

3. Someone's status is "Happy" for the past 1 month.
Such guys are probably single or they are in their first stages of a relationship... Or maybe the guy is still shooting the "Happy" clips by Pharell Williams who by now has even forgotten the lyrics of the hit song.

4. Someone is always "Available".
How free are you? Haven't you heard of Uwezo Fund? CDF? Political Rally? Sleeping at Uhuru Park?

5. From first day their status is, "Hey there! I'm using WhatsApp"
I know I know, we are all on WhatsApp but to you it's more of a bragging right, nkt! kwani hapa ni Webuye?

6. Someone writes "Urgent calls only".
Don't get it... Are you in the police or ambulance service? Ama you just joined NYS!!!

7. Someone says, "Can't talk, WhatsApp only".
Dude then throw away your phone, you're not using the phone's Primary function.

8. Someone is "At the movies" for the past 6 weeks.
Either he owns the theater or sells popcorn there, just guessing

9. Someone's own "At school".
What the hell are we gonna do about your being in school, save us the story it's all yours not for us. and why the hell are you not telling us your grades???

10. Someone puts "Busy" for 2 months
He must be very busy and probably he's a Kanjo driver who really can't chat and drive, just busy chasing people.

Unless you have an unlimited data plan, you can probably recall a time or two where you had to change your typical behavior to keep from going over your monthly limit.
Good news: If you use Google’s Chrome app as a browser, this one simple trick can save you a ton of data without you having to change your habits.
On either iOS or Android, you can reduce your data usage from Chrome up to 50% by adjusting your “bandwidth management.”
Here’s what you need to do:
When you open Chrome, you’ll see a vertical line of three dots on the right side. Click them, and then navigate to “Settings” then “Bandwidth management” then “Reduce data usage.”
Simply turn the toggle to “On.” Chrome will automatically remove unnecessary whitespace on pages, as well as metadata and other elements that aren’t essential to render it. Images will be switched from JPEG or PNG to a much smaller format. These changes will help Chrome conserve your data.
You’ll also be able to track how much bandwidth you save each month on Chrome (and, as an added bonus, turning on this feature also helps better protect you from malicious webpages).
Here’s how it looks:

Scientists in Spain have found that the artificial light emitted from the screens of phones, tablets, televisions and laptops inhibits the production of a hormone that combats obesity.
Melatonin, which is present in plants, animals and humans, regulates sleep patterns and boosts metabolism.
If you’re sleeping with a buzzing monitor, then the production of the hormone will be disrupted, slowing your metabolism and making you susceptible to weight gain.
Professor Ahmad Agil, who led the study, told the Independent that ‘artificial lighting during the night…reduces the levels of endogenous melatonin,’ meaning the bodies organisms fail to produce as much.
I wouldn’t worry too much though. Your phone’s screen probably switches off when you’re not using it – whether it’s charged or not.

We live in a time of “over-sharing.” Yet, in the wake of many celebrities and high profile business men and women getting busted for something they’ve said on social media, we’ve comprised this simple list of when to stay off of social media. Because, ladies and gentlemen, despite what you’ve heard, everything digital can be reproduced (even if it’s deleted). Take a look:

1. When You Don’t Know All The Facts
This by far crosses across racial, ethnic and age lines. There are so many untruths on social media, that it’s baffling. One of the best things about the internet is also one of the worst things: that anybody can say ANYTHING at any time–even if it’s untrue. Many of these so-called sites come up with crazy headlines just to get you to click or start mess. Do your research. Find out the facts, then post. Not before, not during.

2. When You’re Obsessed With Someone
If you find yourself constantly checking someone’s facebook, twitter, AND instagram, it may be time for you to stop, take a break and get off of social media. Evaluate why you are so interested in this person’s life and see if it’s really healthy for you. Internet stalking is real, but it can be cured by logging off and doing something more beneficial.
…and the number ONE time you shouldn’t post on social media is…

3. When You Have Committed A Crime
This one may seem like a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised about how many people very blatantly brag on social media about the illegal movies they’ve downloaded or the clothes they’ve “borrowed” or even how they’ve illegally entered someone’s place. If that’s you, stay off of social media.

4. When You’re In The Middle Of A Breakup
You’re in a relationship, then you’re not. Your relationship status keeps changing like Samuel L. Jackson’s wigs in movies. People don’t want to see that, let alone be bothered with it. If you’re in the middle of a breakup or rough patch in your relationship, keep it to yourself. If it’s open to the public, it gives the public the opportunity to swoop in and make the real relationship worse.

5. When You’re Lonely
Some may not agree with this, but when you’re lonely and you post it on social media, everyone may not feel like giving you the “warm & fuzzy” feeling that you need at that moment. It’s those not-so-good responses to your lonely posts that may take you deeper into depression.

6. When You Want To Tell The Whole Story, But Can’t
There’s few things in social media more annoying that when someone creates a post that is vague yet emotional. It’s like someone tells you something but doesn’t finish.

7. When You’re Angry or Upset
Just like when you’re in an argument with someone while heated, you may say things that you really regret. And while in the real world you can forgive and forget, everything digital
If you follow even half of these suggestions, your time on social media will not only be more productive, it will be more fun!

PICTURES: A CLOSER LOOK AT WINDOWS 10

Perhaps a more fitting name for Microsoft’s latest operating system would be “Windows 15.” Because in this version, the company has essentially brought back from the dead the best parts of what PC users loved about Windows 7 and reworked them into the look of Windows 8.
You know, 7+8=15.
Seriously, though. The Start menu has returned in Windows 10 (the OS’s real name), but now has “Live Tiles” embedded. And now all Windows apps are back to running in easily managed desktop windows, too.
It’s great news.
Even better news: We have a freshly installed preview build of Microsoft’s Windows 10 up and running. The final version, which won’t be available until sometime in 2015, will likely have differences, but this is a good look at the big concepts that make up Windows 10.

PHOTOS: Here's what Microsoft's Windows 10 looks like. So far....

Desktop mode
When you start up Windows 10 on a proper PC (one with a keyboard and a track pad or mouse), you’re taken straight to desktop mode. No more Start screen.

… And only desktop mode
Since, in its latest release, Microsoft has banished what our David Pogue calls “TileWorld,” all file managing and application running is now back in the desktop universe, and only the desktop universe.

The new Start Menu
And if you click the Start button in the corner of the onscreen taskbar, or press the Windows key on your physical keyboard, the Windows 10 Start menu will appear. These Start buttons can be customized in the same manner as the ones on the Windows 8 Start screen.

The new, resizable Start Menu
Bonus: The new Start menu can also be scaled, height-wise.

Apps actually in windows
Apps from Microsoft’s Windows Store run in redesigned desktop windows.

Apps and classic programs finally together
This means that multitasking between classic Windows programs and new Windows Store apps is now super-simple.

Mail app in a desktop window
And this is how the Mail app looks in a desktop window. Very slick.

Just call it the “clap app.”
Well, don’t. It’s actually called Healthvana and it’s designed to halt the spread of sexually transmitted disease. The newly launched app lets users verify their clean bill of health (or, maybe not) to potential suitors so the second date isn’t a trip to the clinic.

Founder Ramin Bastani told ABC News he’s putting a digital spin on the creepy phrase “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.”

“It’s no different if you went to the doctor and got a printout and showed [your partner] that,” he said. “We want to eradicate that idea that no news is good news.”

For someone who gets tested a lot, the back and forth of having an updated health record on hand to show potential lovers can be too much of a hassle. Healthvana wants to make it easier for eligible singles to prove they’re free and clear of STDs.

“If I want to go back and get my record, it is such a nightmare,” Bastani told ABC News. “It’s hard to get someone on the phone. And if I go back to the clinic, I wait in line for an hour-plus, just like everyone else, just to see someone and maybe get the records. And the whole time I am anxious and nervous.”

Bastani said the app, developed along with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, also eliminates the anxiety of waiting for test results. Users can instantly have their lab HIV, syphilis and gonorrhea results back from the doctors.

“We want to eradicate that idea that no news is good news,” Bastani said.

Michael Kaplan, the president of charity AIDS United, told ABC News he thought the openness of sharing whether someone has an STD is a step in cutting down of those who get infected.

“What I can tell you as someone who tested HIV positive back in 1992, with clarity that I wanted my past partners to know, is that my only option back then was calling them — it wasn’t even Facebook or social media,” he said.

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Don't fall for these two new Facebook scams

It’s a bad time to be a free loader or graphic violence voyeur on Facebook. Two new scams promising, respectively, a free iPhone6 and a video of a woman being killed by her husband are making the social media rounds and leaving anyone who clicks with a fresh batch of malware on their computer, or worse. Anyhow, here’s what you need to look out for:

1. No, you’re not getting a free iPhone 6

This scam is asking Facebook users to “like” their page, fill out a survey and then share a link to their site with your friends to get a shiny, new, Pop Tart-sized iPhone 6. It’s that sharing component that is enabling it to spread across news feeds.

According to Hoax-Slayer.com, “Some of the available surveys want you to provide your mobile phone number, ostensibly to go in the draw for extra prizes or offers. But by submitting your number, you will actually be subscribing to a very expensive text-messaging “service” that will charge you several dollars every time it sends you a message.”

So, no new iPhone then? No. No new iPhone. But you will be revealing your personal information, perhaps some money and will have probably earned the wrath of any friends you spammed into signing up for the same scam.

2. No, there’s no video of an unspeakably violent crime for you to watch

The short version? If you see this or anything resembling it on Facebook or elsewhere online, do not click it. And not just because you’re above watching someone else’s alleged death.

The longer version? If you absolutely insist on clicking anyway, you’ll be taken to a third-party site that is dressed up to look like it’s affiliated with Facebook. There will be convincing comments there left by other “viewers” about how shocking the video is and that you must click it and that you won’t believe your eyes and blah, blah, blah, big gigantic scam.

And if you still insist on clicking the actual video, you’ll be prompted to first share the video with your friends and install a plugin before being allowed to watch it. This is where the malware comes in, as the blog Hot For Security explains: “When clicking on the install button, users end up downloading an executable file on their computers, which drops adware or malicious code, depending on their luck.”

The blog says more than 4,000 people have already fallen for the scam. But at least now we know you won’t be number 4,001.

REVEALED: The 10 Facebook crimes that will make your friends delete you

When we first signed up to Facebook in 2007 we were all about the adding. So much friends. So much social. So much fun. Now we’re deleting, because, well, it turns out people are hella annoying.
When asked the main reasons they’d delete someone on the social media site, British adults named ‘excessive bragging’ and ‘nomination posts’ as the top two.
Over 50 per cent of the 2,000 people interviewed by personalised gift website gonedigging.co.uk agreed that they’d deleted people because of both reasons. Yikes.
*Deletes photo of self sipping champagne with member of MIC in background*
‘Pokes’ also came in the top 10, with 24 per cent of people saying they’d had to delete someone for using the once-popular Facebook function, which is quite tickling in itself – who knew there were people out there still poking?
Unsurprisingly, excessive selfie-posting is likely to lead to a cull too, with 37 per cent saying they would cut off a friend who posted too many vanity photos.
Maybe it’s time we all pulled ourselves away from Facebook and y’know read a book or caught up with someone over a mug of coffee instead?