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My FIRST Bloggers' Meet ^ ^

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Bloggers Meet Venue: IBEST DAY: Wednesday (June 24, 2015)   Bloggers of Bhutan :) Pic Courtesy - Rima Reyka  My first one, thrilled but equally nervous, I accepted the request of an excellent blogger friend, Riku to attend the meet on face book. If not for anything, I thought I would get to drink with people with at least one common interest of reading and writing. :P On a serious note, I couldn't afford to miss it at all,   it was an opportunity to meet amazing people whom I will categorize into three here: 1.   Great people whose writings I have been following; 2. People like me who just write when time permits/emotions flow; 3. young aspiring bloggers who would like to take up blogging seriously. No matter how hard I tried, even after giving myself some confidence pills, I really couldn't think of facing the crowd alone, so I dragged my sister along, agreeing with her blackmailing of, "you will have to listen to whatever I say from now o

Face book: Increasing negativity - a concern

A year ago, I deactivated my face book account for exactly a year; it wasn't entirely because of the reason many people thought it was, I decided to quit because, there was just too much negativity in it. I have seen people or rather say face book friends criticizing almost everything, losing temper, using unpleasant languages including vulgar ones, making personal attacks, increasing hate wars,   so on and so forth. Though there is no doubt on face book being very advantageous in many ways, from keeping in touch with long distance friends/ not too close friends to news updates and recently it has become a more common online shopping platform including buying/selling of   second hand stuffs. I also agree the negative comments shouldn't be taken too personally and let it affect you, but it does affect you, in some way or the other it affects your positivity, your mood and spoils your day. Some tips on how to refrain yourself from such negativity: 1. Be kind: