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10 reasons social media stresses us out

It keeps us connected to friends, occupies those spare five minutes while were waiting for the bus and lets face it we wouldnt be without it. But sometimes social networking drives us crazy. Here are the reasons social media stresses us out.

1: Prying bosses

Its bad enough having to prepare a job interview outfit, perfect your CV and prepare well thought out and intelligent interview questions, but now research has suggested we should also be worrying about whats on our Facebook pages if we want to bag our dream job. According to a study by Career Builder, 37% of hiring managers had checked prospective employees social media pages before offering them the job, and one third of these had been put off by what they had seen there!

2: Identity fraud

Thanks to the abundance of personal details many of us share on social media sites, it seems we are making the job of identify fraudsters much easier. With the click of a few buttons, it is easy to bring up a whole host of information on users who believe they are simply sharing innocent information with friends. In fact, according to experts, you could be providing enough information for somebody to easily set up a bank account in your name. To avoid becoming a victim of identity fraud, remember to update your privacy settings to make sure your personal life is kept private.

3: You have been tagged...

If prying bosses and identity thieves werent enough to contend with, we now also have to deal with every fat day and fashion faux pas being broadcast for all to see. And, according to a recent study, our pals are doing it on purpose! According to a study by Mymemory.com, one in four women deliberately post unflattering photos of their friends wearing bikinis online and two fifths had deliberately posted photos of their friends without makeup. No wonder a study by Fitbit identified unflattering Facebook photos as the new number one weight loss trigger!

4: No introductions necessary

Before Facebook and Twitter, we could carefully craft out our own first impressions and choose which parts of our personality we wanted to reveal to new acquaintances. Now, we have to live with the fact that new colleagues and blind dates may know everything about us from our favorite band to our relationship history before we have actually been formally introduced. Yep, pre-date online stalking has truly taken all the mystery out of dating are we the only ones who miss the days of actually getting to know each other in person?

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In this year of endless political campaigning, youve heard more than your share of rhetoric about those pesky, bureaucratic, business-constipating, job-killing government regulations.

You can probably recite the pitch: Its time to cut through the red tape and stop the madness for the good of our economy.

Were not a big fan of regulation for the sake of regulation. As a business, we know very well how regulation can add to the cost of doing business.

But lets not be nave or foolish.

The folks in Adams County have a pretty good understanding of why regulation is important to health and safety. So do the folks in Marshall, Mich.

The link between the two?

An oil spill involving Enbridge Energy.

Last week, a federal agency told Enbridge that it must submit a plan and receive approval before restarting operation of a 470-mile oil pipeline that ruptured in Adams County, spilling 1,200 barrels of oil into a field, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal, a sister publication.

Two homeowners were displaced and a section of road was closed during repair work, which is expected to cost at least $2 million. Crews were testing for groundwater contamination.

As Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said: Pipelines operate safely across the country every single day. Thats why accidents, like the one in Wisconsin, are absolutely unacceptable.

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11-08-2012 09:30 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan. (Aug. 11)

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11-08-2012 06:30 A man from the new nation of South Sudan will take his place in London 2012's marathon Sunday, running under IOC auspices. Guor Marial says he feels the weight of his country on his shoulders. (Aug. 11)

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When Mitt Romney's aide Rick Gorka became upset with the press corps last month for shouting questions at the candidate as he left the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Poland, he famously shouted at them: "Kiss my a - -. This is a holy site for the Polish people!"

Ascent of the A-Word

By Geoffrey Nunberg

Public Affairs, 251 pp., $25.99

The joke wasn't the word itself, but the fact that Gorka flung gutter language at a place he described as holy. Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg, author of the thought-provoking -- and occasionally just provoking -- "Ascent of the A-Word," was probably as amused as anyone else by this tension and the question it raises: Which is worse, to shout questions at a candidate about his earlier gaffes immediately after a solemn wreath-laying, or to react by directing those questioners' lips to their nether regions?

As Nunberg points out, late in his book, "the charge of incivility has become a standard weapon in political discourse, a way of delegitimating a person or group and denying their right to participate in a debate . . . And [it] can also be a pretext for engaging in incivility oneself."

Name-calling has no doubt been around since language was invented. It's probably a primary reason that language was invented. Taunts -- even nasty ones -- can be viewed as the civil alternative to punching someone in the face. Or killing him. So in some ways, name-calling is a giant step up the evolutionary ladder.

Nonetheless, most people are offended by it, especially when words like "a - - - - - -," or worse, are invoked. But as Nunberg points out, substituting other words -- "lout" or "jerk" -- just isn't the same:

"Likening someone to an anus suggests that he is small, foul, noisome, and low, as we conventionally view that anatomical feature . . . whenever we use it, we're flouting the norms of propriety . . . You can't pronounce a - - - - - - without evoking the people who disapprove of it . . . and placing yourself, at least symbolically, outside the circle of polite conversation."

Much of this book -- too much, in fact -- is concerned with defining the titular noun, its types and its degrees. Meriting this slur, Nunberg writes, is determined "by the breadth of [this individual's] self-delusion, the discrepancy between his perceptions and the reality before his eyes, the energy of his denials and rationalizations. The greater the gulf, the more of an a - - - - - - he is."

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Geoffrey Nunberg's 'Ascent of the A-Word' looks at the slur heard round the world