Wedding Telegrams

The Bureau of Meteorology forcasts rainstorms so the bride can expect a few good inches overnight.

Love is a thousand miles long but comes in six inch installments.

"The trouble with being the best man at a wedding is that you never get to prove it.

"Confucious say man who sink into womans arms soon have arms in womans sink.

Sorry I cannot be at Wedding... Please send me a photo of Bride and Groom Mounted.

Easy on the throttle, steady on the gears, roll her over gently and She'll last for many years.

Don't keep him in the dog house too often or he might give his bone to the woman next door.

Treat him like a flower... grab him by the stalk.

If you don't want the Stork to come, Shoot in the air.

Go for it mate. We all did!

All the best from Mr and Mrs Farkin and all the Farkin kids.

She offered her honour, He honoured her offer, and all night he was on her and off her.

Don't Spring on the Inner-Spring this Spring or there will be an Off-Spring next Spring.

Hope you honeymoon is like a train ride through the Khyber Pass, One long hard route.

Please remember that Brandy makes you Randy, Whisky makes you Frisky, but its a good stiff Johnny Walker that makes you Pregnant.

Travel Agency to Bride: The groom's face leaves at midnight. Be on it.

Congratulations on the termination of your isolation and may I express an appreciation of your determination to end the desperation and frustration which has caused you so much consternation in giving you the inspiration to make a combination to bring an accumulation to the population.

Football coach to bride: If you've tried him in 18 positions and he's still no good, pull him off.

Treat the Bride like a new car, go easy for the first 500.

What are parents doing to protect teens online?

Recent headlines about the discovery and removal of 29,000 registered sex offenders on MySpace have added fuel to the fiery debate about the safety of online social networks.

In an article that ran today in the Washington Post, data from our "Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks" report was cited in reference to the type of information teens disclose on their profiles. Hemanshu Nigam, a former federal prosecutor who is now the chief security officer for MySpace, was quoted in the article as saying, "Parents are our first line of defense, and we want to empower them"

So, what are parents doing to protect their teens online? Here's a quick snapshot of some of the technical and non-technical measures parents use:
* Overall, 85% say they have rules about the kind of personal information their child can share online.
* 74% say the computer their child uses is in a public place in the home.
* 65% say they check up on their child's internet use after they go online.
* 53% use some type of filtering software.
* 45% use some type of monitoring software.

For more information about the steps parents are taking, please click here.

Article Courtesy : Mary Madden

Are our relationships defined by our online habits?

Everyone has a friend or two who takes that much longer to respond to emails because they just don't ever check their accounts, who don't want to join social networks and who never pop up on IM and gTalk. What happens when you fall in love with someone like that?

A friend in a serious relationship has declared herself as "single" on Facebook, the social networking site, not because she isn't madly in love with her boyfriend, but because her boyfriend won't create a Facebook profile. As a compulsive Facebook user (she updates her picture weekly and has at least 5 new posts on her wall every day), many of her social and family ties are maintained through communications via Facebook. In not joining Facebook, her boyfriend misses a part of life that is important to her.

In a more extreme example, a recent Wall Street Journal story profiled a man who is married to two women; one in Second Life and an entirely separate woman in the real world. The article describes how the man logs onto Second Life so he can spend hours on walks and motorcycle rides with his Second Life wife while the food left for him by his real-life wife remains untouched and unnoticed.

It seems to be an intolerable situation for the non-cyber wife. There is no question that her husband is neglecting their relationship in favor of his online life. The article does not offer substantial reasons for why she does not attempt to join him in his online domain—perhaps she is just not interested in cyber worlds. In hindsight, it would have been good to know that her future husband had a consuming interest/passion (way of life) that she does not share.

Will we soon be living in a world bifurcated by those who live a life fully immersed in the communicative and expressive tools the online world has to offer and those who deliberately choose not to communicate in those spaces?

Article Courtesy : Alexandra Rankin Macgill

A good date

These three teenage girls were roommates. One Friday night right after the semester started they all had all gone out on dates, and by chance all came home at about the same time.

The first one came in and said with a smug look on her face, "You know you've been on a good date when you come home with your hair all messed up."

The second one laughed at her and said, "No, no, that's nothing! You know you've been on a good date when you come home with your makeup all smeared."

The third one sat quiet with a blank stare on her face and didn't say a thing for a few minutes. Then she reached under her skirt, removed her panties and threw them against the wall, where they stuck with a loud thud!

She said, "Now that is a good date !!"