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Yes, just like is sounds, Whats App won’t be working anymore on blackberry soon and very soon. WhatsApp will also stop working on some Nokia, Windows Phone and Android devices.

In the recent blog post the WhatsApp team published today (28/02/2016), they remind us about their launch back in 2009, when WhatsApp launched, most smartphones were either a BlackBerry or a Nokia, but today, technology has done its flying magic to leave the not so speedy upgrades behind or those devices that is unable to upgrade to latest requirement as it unfolds.

WhatApp said in their statement that the devices they will be their dropping support don’t have capability needed to expand their app’s featured in the near future.

WhatApp will be dropping support for BB’s OS, the app will also stop working on Nokia S40, Symbian S60, Android 2.1, Android 2.2, and Windows Phone 7.1 devices by the end of the year 2016. They noted.

Source: [url="http://www.techislet.com/breaking-whatsapp-is-dropping-blackberry-platform/"]Techislet[/url]

amicable09:
Lol. Nice piece OP!
Please tell them! I mean the person above and the ones below... lol.
But we are partially safe on NL unlike Facebook and LinkedIn. Still, it doesn't mean we should act here as if we are loosed dogs, so uncivilized and uncultured. I love the popular saying "Live in the secret as you would in the open", my rule on Social Media.

@ amicable09 thanks for this "Still, it doesn't mean we should act here as if we are loosed dogs"

Youths of today are getting more connected to technology either by using phone or browsing online. Keyboards and keypads are becoming more attached to our heart. Technology is a way of communicating and social interaction among but is becoming the only way to communicate with today’s youth because it has made one on one interaction less frequent and has made a negative effect on the social abilities of the youth.


Technology is really a great way to stay entertained but it is disconnecting people. Internet users have many ways to be occupied online this days. internet users have the ability to communicate on social networking sites like facebook, ways to watch TV shows and videos mostly on YouTube, and play entertaining games, all while on the computer. And we wonder why we have no in-person friendships and dysfunctional families. Non-internet users spend 12.6 more minutes on average doing social activities, such as parties, sporting events, and person-to-person conversations. Internet users spend 34.3 minutes less than non-internet users with family and friends. Those who don’t switch off the computer, switches off all personal relationships with family and friends.


Technology like iPods and cell phones make a personal bubble and make it portable. Cell phones create a distraction from real life experiences and because of their ability to be taken anywhere, we see teens texting anywhere they can. Teens text while talking to someone else, at the dinner table, in the car if driving or not,at he movies, when walking, and worst of all in church. This tiny piece of plastic is distracting teens from the most important message of all. The message of God. iPods also create the distraction but it also sends a signal “visible from a good distance away, white earphones signal one thing to most people: don’t bother trying to talk to me” (Song). This action irritates people. These act are growing around so many people and someone just needs to pop them.


As you can tell, I am very much against technology but there are ways that it aids. It helps many people stay in touch with old friends that might have moved away or travel far, the internet make it easier for them to keep in touch with themselves. In my life, Staying in touch can be done in person as much as over technology.


Some people have trouble making new friends and the internet provides ways to meet new people through chat rooms and suggestions. I believe relationships built online can be a little eccentric but, one study suggests that online relationships simply take longer to develop than those face-to-face and eventually can become as rich. Online relationships can be dangerous because you never know who’s on the other side of the chat.


You can become more socialise over the internet if you don’t have a chance to meet others in real life. Meeting people online may give you confidence, but I believe it may also tears you down. Knowing that you didn’t have real friends and resorting to making them online can make you feel worthless. Online relationships will either build you up or break you down and some online relationship may be scam.


Data showed that as people used the internet more, they reported keeping up with fewer friends, so keep your friends. Don’t be sucked into the internet and leave others behind. Most importantly, don’t let keypads and keyboards be the key to your heart.

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Its been a while seeing different opinion/argument about social media life, personal life and career.

As much as i support the motion that the social media have big impact not only on our career but our life as a whole, It still baffles me how some people have turned deaf hear to the facts and figures of the happenings about and around this topic.

Let’s dive into this and learn together;

The Old Trend

For years, HR department have been doing their job with much stress trying to know whom you are, what you are, your flows and other things about you with questionnaires, references and other forms of research.

I have been part of two firms HR and some how in employment decision making of other firms. I see the truth about the questionnaire or research thing, its simply corporate gambling… we keep believing we are getting facts, what we believe is your (employee) fate… The best scenario we could have is someone that knows you that can share his/her view about you with us, without you knowing we spoke to such person. Thus the Social Media came to our aid.

The New Trend

Four(4) in every Five(5) Human Resource (HR) personnel are now running to the internet to aid their research about a prospective employee. An employer that goes online would base alot of fact about your personal life, social media life, and career on not less than 40% of your social media accounts, thus the percentage may vary up or down depending on your career type, level and what service(s) is required of you.

Source: Your Social Media life might render you jobless. [VIDEO]



It’s normal that not everyone will support a motion. I have heard different argument saying;

My social life is totally different from my normal life
I only do those things on social media for fun
My BBM status/PM is just to create conversation and scare haters
I could continue the list but let me stop here.

Let’s also forget about listing the obvious bad life some of us live online, of course we see them everywhere, and let me point out two facts until i do my next post about same topic.

Your real self is when no one is watching you: We wrongfully think social media (e.g: BBM) is private because we are either chatting in the Conner of our room alone or twitting from the toilet. dear brethren, you have to think again.
If you live a different life on social media, you will scare the employer: It is simply delivered has, you may still have another type of life to live if offered employment which smart employers won’t look away from, thereby making is a tougher one to get the job.
So what about the peeps whom are not socially active, wait for my next post about this topic. But before we have the next post, what’s your view about one of the most arguable social media topic;

Does your social media life have effect on your career or original life ? Share your view in comment.

Source: Your Social Media life might render you jobless. [VIDEO]