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Don’t Drink and Tweet [Infographic]

November 4, 2013 |  by Grayson  |  Entertainment, Lifestyle, Social Media

Scenario: it’s another weekend night, so it’s time for you and your friends to go out and have some fun, nothing out of the ordinary. You’re having a good time hanging out, kicking back and occasionally checking your phone for time, texts, status updates or what have you; you’re probably not thinking about your past relationships at all. But then you knock one or six drinks back and suddenly that glorious machine in your hand holds some new-found power: you’re going to tell your ex just exactly what you think about them and you’ll be damned if the rest of the world doesn’t know too.

Most of us have probably been in a similar situation with phones/social media and alcohol, and man is that next morning ever terrible. Running clean-up on embarrassing social situations can be bad enough, but doing so with a hangover, knowing full well you may have just burned some bridges? No thank you.

Today’s graphic from Entrepreneur.com gives us a few examples of why you should probably put either the phone or the drink down if you’ve already had a few. Drunk dialing, while no less embarrassing, was so much simpler before the smartphone and social media. You have a few, make a bad call, then never speak to the person again (probably). With things like Facebook and Twitter, though, now you’ve got a magical megaphone to broadcast all of those sloppy emotions to everyone you know, and no one wants to see that.

For more, have a look at the graphic below. [Via]

The cost of human life

From the slaves in Ancient Egypt to the civilian collateral damage of the Modern Wars

The cost of human life

In a slavery system, people are considered as property to be bought and sold, and are coerced to work.In human history many societies used to recognized slavery as an institutional system. In recent times slavery has been banned in all countries. Unfortunately this is not true.In present days slavery is still practiced in many countries in different forms: sexual exploitation, servitude, forced labour, illegal adoptions for labour, child soldiers, forced marriage and organ trade. The International Labour Organization estimates that 20.9 million people are victims of forced labour globally. According to the Global Report on Trafficking Persons(2012), at least 136 different nationalities were trafficked in 118 different countries. Twenty-seven per cent of all victims detected globally are children. Of every three child victims, two are girls and one is a boy. Women account for 55%-60% of all trafficking victims detected globally; women and girls together account for about 75%. This project presents the cost of human life through different periods in human history.

Data and Sources

The dataset is provided by The Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards and is available at http://bit.ly/human_costs. Another source of information presented is Havocscope, a web site reporting accurate and unbiased data about the black market. For a full insight on the Trafficking of Persons: Global Report on Trafficking Persons(2012) by the United Nations

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