A Faith Based Guide to Navigating the Social Media Lifestyle
Most people are aware of the difficulties Muslims face in getting married, and the rapid rise of matrimonial websites is no surprise. There are matrimonial sites now catering to all crowds – those previously married, those just looking for another Muslim, all the way to sites like DoctorSeRishta.com and SecondWife.com. Over 10 years ago, sites like HotOrNot.com [current iteration of …
I grew up watching the ball drop in Time’s Square every year. Except, growing up in Texas, we saw it at 11pm every year instead of midnight. This meant getting to enjoy Conan O’Brien do a Central Time Zone countdown on his show, but that’s a different story. Netflix is doing something fascinating this year for parents. They have set …
The manifesto I wish I had written. I recently came across this fantastic short [7 minute] video called: The Dangers of the Internet. A bit ominous sounding but it nicely summarizes a number of thoughts I’ve had on social media, and articulates a lot of the same reasoning I had in starting this project. Way back in high school, I was …
Background Back in March/April of this year (2014), Ramit Sethi launched a new course entitled Zero to Launch. Having taken some of his previous courses (like Earn1k and Success Triggers), I was excited about the opportunity to take a class on how to create your own online business. Creating an online business is something I’ve always wanted to do but …
Every year, a small group of sports fans scattered across the US play a game called “Last Man.” The goal is to be the last man in America to find out who won the Super Bowl. TLDR Sports reporter Lisa Pollak followed the game this year, and found out just how hard information was to avoid in the internet age. …
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s the internet shrank the world – and Islam was no exception. Before that, your exposure to Islam was through your local masjid and local imam. Occasionally some guest speakers would come through. Every now and then there would be a table set up after Juma with books and cassettes. Many households received Islamic …
Random Muslim Person sees inspirational Islamic video on YouTube. Random brother or sister now feels speaker in said YouTube video is the solution to all of their life problems. Random Muslim Person finds the Facebook fan page of said speaker. They now feel compelled to comment on every single one of their statuses. For example: Popular Islamic speaker Facebook update: …
I’m completely hooked on the new Serial Podcast. So is the world. As I write this, it is the number 1 podcast on iTunes. In a nutshell it’s a spinoff from NPR’s This American Life, and the entire season is focused in on one case – this season it happens to be about the conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of …