If you haven’t read about the new security feature of facebook, you can actually have a feature turned on and you will be updated when someone, somewhere logs into your facebook account. Here’s the steps:

1. Login to your account using the actual web. Not the mobile or touch site.
2. On the top-right corner, click on the “Account” drop down and go into “Account Settings”
3. Scroll down till you see “Account Security” and click on it to show options.
4. Switch “Would you like to receive notifications for logins from new devices?” to “Yes” and Save.

So when ever some strangers log into your facebook, you will get an email notifying you of this activity. Thus it’s not advisible to have the same password for your email and facebook.

Overly secure? Facebook couldn’t recognize that I was using the same computer, one week later.

Have you encountered any problems with this feature?

This scheduler happens to be lying on the bench I was doing my revision. At this moment I’m writing this article, I wonder if most people will flip and find ways to return it or flip and leave it aside. What will you do?

How did I find her?

Randomly flipping it, I discovered the owner’s name behind, on the last page. I know the owner’s name and 3 possibilities of how she looks like since there’s an mini Instax photograph of 3 girls.

Guess I was out of luck – überTwitter’s Find User didn’t return any results (It took ages to load, but still no dataset was returned).

With all the stupid quizes around, everyone’s doing them. Really too many people doing it everyday and it floods my feeds.

Can facebook allow us to use regular expressions to block what we do not want to see?

I guess the main reason why I don’t even step on Friendster is because this pisses me off. I find it really irritating when I have to switch to my own language everytime I visit the site (in the past), until one day I decided that I shouldn’t even bother looking at it.

I travel and stay around quite a fair bit between Singapore and Malaysia for the past few years. Recently, I was really disappointed by Singtel’s Mobile Broadband and that caused me not to be able to surf much in Singapore as I wasn’t  even able to multitask by surfing 2 websites at 1 go.  It’s that serious. Now I’ve got M1 Mobile Broadband, and it isn’t any better too. I’ll do a review about it another day — but you know it’s not going to be a good review. But seriously speaking, TMNet Streamyx performs way better than the damn Mobile Broadbands I got in terms of stability. Ok, thats not the point.

Speaking about languages, English has been my primary language since young and that makes Chinese my mother tongue. I don’t get to learn Malay (Or Bahasa) in school and thats why until today I’m no good at the language.

We’ve got facebook right now, and it’s doing way better in terms of surfing experience. Importantly, they don’t select a damn default language for me by my IP Address.

Good bye Friendster. Any other sites that make me read Malay as my default language, I’ll say good bye to you too. [Webmasters, get this into your brains please.]

I recently got invited into Facebook groups like PETITION AGAINST HIGH BUS FARES for POLY STUDENTS and Travel Concession for FULL-TIME SIM Students, a plea for common sense but I didn’t join. What’s the point?

The creators of the groups wrote stuffs like:

It is obviously unfair that SMRT and SBS charge polytechnic students adult fares while JC students only pay 45cents per trip. Are we not of the same age as JC students? Do we NOT travel as much as JC students do? Are our families any better off than theirs? The general answer is NO, Polytechnic students are in fact just average students. Yes, there are elder students who are already working and capable of supporting themselves, but they still hold a very much smaller percentage as compared to the young students fresh from secondary school. I do believe SMRT and SBS are smart enough to not make decisions based on stereotyping thinking, and i certainly do believe that they are capable of being fair and unbiased, so i take it this fare difference was due to negligence in decision discussion and making. A higher fare would very directly affect the students’ moods about school, discouraging students from poorer families to continue with their studies. This could impact the Singaporean economy as the majority of people studying go to polytechnics after their O levels, and a high fare would discourage workers from coming back to polytechnics to upgrade themselves.

and ..

I’m sure many of us feel the need to be recognised as full time undergraduate students who deserve concession for public transport too, just as much as our peers in the public universities. I heard even students, if it is indeed true, of LaSalle College of the Arts get approved as tertiary students who deserve concession.(Pardon me if I’m wrong) So why not us too?

But you think your voices are heard when you write so much on Facebook? Ministers don’t use Facebook (am I right?).

My suggestions

Riots won’t be allowed in Singapore, so don’t even think about it.

I would suggest we all target our school’s students’ union. Let them voice it for our behalf. If not, what’s the students’ union for? 

If your school’s student union isn’t doing anything about this, write in to your school’s student affairs. Remind them that you’re (we’re) all not rich.

Now I know its not easy, but contact the media. Let the media know that you got a few thousand people here that aren’t happy. (Few thousand for a poly isn’t sufficient. At least find 20% of the school population.) Form a group of 10-30 people first, camp at food courts daily to gather signatures and NRICs/Student ID. Let the media know what you’ve got and that they should voice it for you.

And again if this doesn’t work, go suck thumb.

Oh or if you’ve got a better suggestion, let me know. I completed my 3 years in poly and I know, if they wanted to implement what you suggested, they would have done it years back.

… again, good night.