How to Ruin your life with Facebook

The key difference between fools and sages is restraint – not intellect.

- Xenocrates

Do you have a Facebook account? Well congratulations. You’re one step closer to being a public asset. Facebook is the single most popular social networking online portal in the world. Now with over 500 million subscribers, it has probably enumerated the large majority of the world’s computer literate population — and that is precisely why it is so incredibly dangerous.

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Made in China, Part 2

Free speech is something of an oxymoron in China, since technically speaking, it doesn’t exist.

— Xenocrates

Lost in Translation – this is a huge recurring problem in China.

Have you ever been on one of those trips where shortly after arrival you wanted to leave? Have you ever been to a country where everything from the government to the culture annoyed you? That was China for me. Here are 3 more reasons why China sucked from the Top 10 Lessons I learned there: