Life Hackery

The social networking website, a stylized version of self-advertisement, is the preferred means of communication of kids today. In this site, you can post pictures, videos, and information pertaining to your personal and professional life. People use social networking sites for various reasons and most of them are hinged at being noticed by other people. As an eligible bachelor or bachelorette, you can certainly use these sites to find partners for your favorite hobby – dating.

Tweaking your social networking account and turning it into a tool for finding dates is easy, especially for seasoned “players.” You just have to make a compromise between your interests and the way your prospects generally think. Call it street psychology, but your primary objective is to be pretty noticeable to your “target market.” Once you reel a few prospects in, you can start messaging them with playful banter en route to having actual dates. Exciting huh? Here are nine ways to make your social networking account date-friendly:

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Social networking websites are the in-things today. Most people, especially youngsters, spend countless hours tinkering their accounts on popular social networking sites. They often stylize their accounts and update their pictures to promote their own brand of self marketing.

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Bittorrent is the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol today. If you’re among the millions of people using it, chances are, you are quite addicted to it; however, most offices today block bittorrent clients or even the ports that the protocol uses so that their employees can be more productive at work.

If you happen to be employed at a company that follows the same policies, you don’t have to lose hope because there are still ways to bypass that pesky firewall the IT department set up.
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There are plenty of web lists out there that will tell you how to do very specific things. You can learn all about shampooing your cat, organizing your pantry, and making intricate stained-glass VW Beetle ornaments…but how many resources are there to remind you how to be a decent person? These are the things we really need to know.

1. Learn how to use a public restroom correctly. News flash: it is NOT ok to neglect flushing in a public restroom, even if you fear the germs on the flusher handle.

2. Do not be a creepy date. This applies to men and women equally. We’ve all gone out with the weirdo who wants to move way too fast or who simply won’t accept it when you say you don’t want to see them again. Don’t be that weirdo.

3. Hold the door open for the person behind you. Some people think that other people will be offended if they hold the door open. These people were obviously raised by wolves. It is never rude to continue holding open a door that you have just passed through for the person directly behind you who is approaching the same door. In fact, you might say it is a little rude to let the door smack them in the face instead.

4. Don’t say the same phrase or punchline over and over, no matter how funny you think it is. (This is slightly more forgivable when you’re drunk.)

5. Don’t use your cellular phone while ordering a coffee, eating a meal, going through the checkout at a store, driving, or doing anything else that requires human interaction with people who are right in front of you.
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You know all of those helpful kitchen-related suggestions that old-timers are so willing to share with the younger generations? These little tips and tricks might be called “kitchen hacks” these days, but they’re still the same good old nuggets of wisdom that they always were. As with any old wives’ tale, hack, or tip, your mileage may vary. Some of these gems have been around for several lifetimes - and according to most grandmas, they really work.

1. For cleaning smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, just rub them on a stainless steel spoon. The steel is supposed to absorb the odor.

2. Fresh coffee beans can also absorb nasty odors from your hands.

3. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.

4. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking.

5. Never put citrus fruits or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperatures degrade the aroma and flavor of these persnickety fruits.

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