YEAR 1 | ISSUE 3 | JULY, 2012
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Facebook- it is a term with which I think every single individual aged 12 or more would be familiar with. It has simply revolutionized the phase of social networking. And on top of it, a newspaper has said that “if the social networking website was a country, it would have been the third largest most populated nation, after China and India”.
Ars Technica said in one of its reports that Facebook’s efforts were just not catchy for alerting users as compared to those of Google that placed a link to new privacy policy under the search box on its home page for users across the world days before the policy came into effect and its usage on a large scale was started. It is obvious that websites can lead users to the privacy policy but cannot force users to read the privacy policy, but in the case of Facebook it So there was an attempt by Facebook to improve its privacy poliwasn't even leading the users to read it. cies. Recently a poll on which Facebook policies should be put into place on the social network was conducted on its site. The poll was Facebook honchos were not pleased with the low turnout followed bombastic!! It saw a serious lack of user interest. In the country of by such harsh criticism. "Despite our substantial outreach effort, 900 million users, only 342,632 voted on which privacy policy the number of people who voted constituted such a small and should be adopted. This number accounts to a mere 1 user in every unrepresentative percentage of our user community," said Elliot 2,600 users, or just 0.038 percent of the total Facebook user Schrage, Facebook's Vice President of Communications, Public strength. This was like a shocker for the heads in the business. Policy and Marketing, in a lengthy posting on the social network Around 297,883 people -- approximately 87 percent of all respond- about the results of the vote. ents, chose to keep Facebook’s existing SRR and Data Use Policy. So, this leaves a very big question to be asked. Reports shown from the employees of the Facebook shed light on Do you think Facebook didn't take the required steps to notify why there was such a low percentage of people voting. The report people? Or the low numbers were just an indication of the cold gave excuses that users might not have seen the link to vote on response from users to Facebook? their Facebook pages (which is amusing as we all know most of the users check each and every notification), as it was placed on the left Vertika Anand, MCA Batch-1 side tool bar next to their news feeds column.
The glamorous world of Modelling, offers an exciting, adventurous as well as a lucrative career to youngsters. A model gets opportunity to travel to beautiful locations, be pampered, be able to attend events with celebrities and earn an attractive pay packet. But to attain glamour and popularity, this profession needs hard work and sacrifice. Dedication and perseverance is needed to be successful in this field. One needs to be physically, mentally and emotionally strong to succeed as a good model. Realizing the importance of this fact Galgotias University has created a Fashion Club: ’Scintillations’ and organized for its auditions .
Akriti Sharma and Rashika Mangwani, who aimed to discover talented students. The search began enthusiastically, every contestant was eager to show their talent and make an impression. The auditions witnessed hundreds of contestants, wishing to showcase their skill at walking the ramp and to have an edge over other contestants to top the show. Definitely it seemed as if they were prepared for the cut throat competition. The auditions started from 10am and lasted till 3pm. There were certain rules and principles according to which judgement was being made. Inability to keep in line with the rules, got many of them rejected irrespective of their skills. Now we have a vibrant team of the Fashion Club who Galgotias University Fashion Club held their auditions for modelling, would represent Galgotias University in every competition. So to designing, makeup and choreography on 12th May 2012. Many asstand out in a big crowd and to leave your mark is by no means an pirants from all courses at Galgotias came up, trying out for a spot easy job. And for this one needs skills and hard work beyond the on the ramp. Guys and gals showed their talent and the imagination of most people. Overall the performances were deserving ones were selected on the basis of qualities like appreciable and auditions were conducted smoothly. We here by Attitude, Walk, Designing (fashion designing), Looks, Personality, congratulate all the participants who got selected and look forward Persistence, Will-Power, Organisation, Responsiveness, to participating in Inter college events & festivals. Independence, Stamina, Confidence, Politeness and Courtesy . The auditions were taken by the head co-ordinators of fashion club