यसरी खोजियो नेपालको पहिलो फेसबुक प्रयोगकर्ता

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ट्वीटरमा एकजनाले राखेको सामान्य प्रश्नले असामान्य खोजतर्फ हामीलाई डोर्यायो ।  प्रश्न थियो नेपालको पहिलो फेसबुक प्रयोगकर्ता को हो?

शुरुमा प्रश्न त्यति महत्वपुर्ण लागेन । तर ट्वीटरमा केही साथीहरुबिच थप बहश हुँदा यो खोज आफैँमा रोचक हुने ठानेपछि अनुसन्धान गर्ने निर्णयमा पुग्यौँ । खासमा हामीले नेपालमै रहेर फेसबुक अकाउन्ट खोलेको व्यक्ति खोजेका थियौँ र यो गार्हो थियो । तर अनुसन्धान विधीमा स्नोबल विधीबाट पनि नमुना छनौट गरी अनुसन्धान गर्न सकिन्छ भन्ने कुरा क्लिक गर्यो । अनि मैले यो विधी अपनाएर कोशिस गर्ने निर्णय गरेँ ।

How to reinstate your preferred email id in Facebook?

Are you worried that Facebook overnight changed your email address to be something like****.****.3@facebook.com? Yes, they did it a few months ago and overnight your email address either in gmail, yahoo or hotmail was replaced by ****@facebook.com in your About page.

We very much love our email ids as they treasure so many important things for us. And I won’t like this important email address to be replaced by an mechanically generated Facebook id!

Changing the id

But don’t worry. You can replace this @facebook.com email id with the one that you prefer.

Unnecessary tags create nuisance to your friends

There are thousands of ways people are using social media like Facebook or Twitter. Certainly, they have good aspects and sadly all are not that good at all! For example, manipulating others’ pictures, using other’s pictures or status without proper credit and unnecessary tags, to name only a few.

In this short write-up, I am talking about tags, which have embarrassed many people and find a reason to hate or not love facebook as much as they could.

Tagging pictures in Facebook

People want their beautiful pictures to be seen by as many people as they can reach. Therefore, even if your friend was in the other side of the Atlantic or was probably sleeping when you were taking pictures, you are tagging him/her in the pictures.

Technologies of Freedom: Social Media

In Nepal or even India and many other developing countries, debates about social media are more focused about their negative impacts i.e. defamation, obscenity, hatred and violence. Rather than discussing about how to make best use of these technologies, people are more worried about how to better control them. In my personal experience, even in some sessions that are designed to make people literate about social media, the debate shifts towards how to restrict them. I have found many people worried about controlling mechanisms even before they start using them!