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A Better Facebook

Dear all,

As a part of our daily life, Facebook is a community we visit so much, and I believe we need to be as entertained and comfortable as possible in this environment, it's why I have a couple of suggestions that will make Facebook richer and more organized. Your votes and responses will make these suggestions real, and we need as much votes as possible, so you're kindly asked to inform your friends, group members and page fans to read this and give us there opinions and support, your voices will force Facebook to change to what you believe is better…

Below you'll read the suggestions and some examples,

1. Tagging Policy: aren't you sick of being tagged in so many pointless pictures and notes that mostly have nothing to do with you?

It’s why were asking for a tagging policy that will control these outrages tags, a setting that will allow some certain group of people we choose to tag us.

2. Facebook Clock: this idea is all about giving Facebook its own global timing, this will make it much easier to meet online, give appointments and get rid of time zones and time changes, this new thing is revolutionary because it’s not going to change according to your own time zone, it will appear the same on all Facebook pages in all languages all around the world.

3. Inform Button: have you ever uploaded a picture, a note or any other activity without getting the number of comments you expected? And you might be surprised when you hear form your friends that they haven’t seen it?

This usually happens because not all of your friends are going to be online when you are, so they might not notice the activity you’re so excited about, it’s why you would tag them in your picture or note even if they have nothing to do with it, this might work but it’s going to get ugly after a couple of times, specially with the huge number of notifications your friends would get on something they might have already seen.

And so, something everyone is going to love is the “Inform Button” it’s something like a notification sender but it’s not, it’ll send a small sentence to your friend asking him to check out what you have uploaded or written. And friends will receive this kind of information in a special pop-up menu next to the notifications menu.

You can choose to inform by list or by individual, this will make it a very organized announcement, and we won’t get that number of notifications any more.

4. Names in Phonetics: many people around the world have names from different languages, and this leads to mispronouncing there names, this would really help everyone who has a unique name.

An so we’re asking for a box in our profiles in which we can write our names in phonetics.

5. Meanings of Names: as a diverse community from people all around the world, we have a very rich heritage of various cultures, and you can find that in our names, it’s why we’re asking for a box in our profiles in which we can write the meaning of our names as well as the language of origin. This will turn it to a very beautiful cultural experience. And to make it better there would be a dictionary of names meanings that we have created, and it can be used as a new service provided by Facebook, names won’t be connected to the original users.

6. Inbox Filter: how many personal messages on Facebook have you missed because of clutter in your inbox? Messages from groups you joined, friends you lost contact with and friends you know all thrown in one place, this is not right. And so we’re asking for inbox filters that will allow automatic categorization of messages depending on the source of them. If it’s a message form a group it’ll go a folder especially for groups you care about, and if it’s from an individual it’ll go to another folder, and we can also create our own filters depending on lists we’ve created.

7. Multi Blog linking: if you have a blog you’d know what I’m talking about, we all know you can connect your blog posts to your Facebook notes, but what if you have two or three different blogs? It’s why we’re asking for multi blog linking.

Thank you all for your time, you know it’s all for the good of Facebook users i.e. us, so you’re kindly asked again to inform everyone you know online to read this note and comment.

A poll is waiting for you for general evaluation of what you think, please follow: http://elmorad.blogspot.com

And if you’d like to you’re invited to join the group: “A better Facebook” that will let you know about new changes as soon as they are made, all members will be notified when more suggestions come up, and I’m telling you there’s more.

Thanks again,

Morad Elzagal

It is always sunny above the clouds

Glitteriest drops of the sun woke up the only golden apricot tree ever found, a tree with golden leaves, branches and apricots.

The heart of this tree has inhaled happiness since the first day in its life. The happiness was explained by the feeling of gratitude and peace felt when it gave its golden apricots for people, it is the nature of a tree, giving and selfless.

One day, birds woke up the tree in a rush, a look of sadness and disappointment worn the golden face, nothing is left; the greed of people took all the golden apricots and leaves. Sadness had a child and a family when the tree could not cry because of its materialistic nature.

A dream knocked the door in silence, the tree wanted to be alive! The story was told across the world of imagination, no one believed it could happen and everyone thought the tree has lost its sanity.

It seemed like the dream was growing, and it was obvious the tree was not saving any effort. As a result of the stamina and determination it had, the inevitable destiny changed. A parrot carried the news; the tree was given a chance, but two obstacles were left to defeat, the first was a question to answer, the second was a condition.

The question must be answered with a convincing answer, why would a tree of gold step down and be a mortal tree of wood? Everything and everyone gathered to listen to what will be said, and the tree started: "sweetness of life is in the ability to choose good over evil and the right over the wrong, I want to make mistakes because it tastes delicious to repent, it tastes different to rebuild. Sweetness of a limited life is in the limitless giving. I want to cry with tears, I want to laugh with tears. I want to change from a seed to a tree, I want to feel the bitter snow in the winter, the burning yellow in the summer, I want to feel the breeze in the spring and I want to say goodbye to stability in the fall. My immortality showed me everything in this world, and I want to see the other worlds".

Silence shut the mouths of all; no one spoke till the decision was made. Three days of vivid life to achieve the condition. Sun must touch the tree every single day in the year. That was the condition and no body knew how the tree would do it.

It is always sunny above the clouds, the tree had her first breath as a living being, power was given to her to grow high enough to tear the clouds into pieces, the condition was achieved and the question was answered, no obstacles left… life will taste different when you are the tree..

Fireworks from the sun

The classical watch of that old man stopped, the hands of it were broken and burnt with no mercy. The last paper on the calendar told the story of the 27th of Dec. The pages of books little children used to take to school were torn into a million pieces. Hatred laughed with a voice like a funeral.

Rain fell down carrying the unfortunate news of war starting. Sadness covered everything with silence and haze. The drop of tear lost it’s purity to be a black drop of damage. Nothing left but the clean bodies of innocent people. Everyone was running with no place to go. Hearts beating so loud, families disappeared. Mothers sat under the ruins with their hands on their children. Memories of yesterday started to play like a sad play on the ashes of the theatre. Boxes of jewelry melted, everyone thought it’s the end, but it will never be.

Fireworks from the sun fell on the heads of people and mosques. A sunless, moonless sky made the clock walk faster to start a night in the middle of the day. That night stayed for many mornings. Seeds died in the cradle, pain screamed asking for help. Cold, lonely and injured, it’s how fathers ran after their sons. Stones turned into sands blown in the air. Smiles faded like the sun behind the clouds in a rainy day. Hurricanes of fire twisted the empty rooms of motels all around.

Eyes of stone watched all the catastrophes, and the icy hearts of criminals loved the scene of armless, foodless, homeless people dying. Aggressive and sick, it’s war. Children didn’t get the chance to cry.
A step on the moon is a huge step forward, and a war is a huge step backward. Nature honors the peace found in people but felons taught nature how to be aggressive.

Honoring peace now is how we give rest to the people dying because of the living cruelty.

In the memory of all the martyrs of Gaza.