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Getting rid of social media, one at a time

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After being on almost all major social networking sites from last thirteen years I realized it's been too long for such a thing. I first learned the idea of social networking sites in 2005 and it began with Orkut in it's golden days. Lots of groups and communities which shared tons of information, old time games and scarps to each other. Lots of friends found and lost as well. Then came facebook in 2005 and became open for all in 2006 and I joined after getting an invite. It was dull initially and Orkut was much happening and colorful. After an year or so, Airtel offered free facebook on their prepaid connection. Remember, mobile internet was really slow and not cheap at all. People suddenly started drifting towards facebook and Orkut lost it's crown. Somewhere along came twitter which I didn't understood at all, but joined anyway. Orkut got replaced by Google Plus, Facebook was on rage, Twitter was finding grounds, and I was on every one of them equally. All

Review: Audio Technica M50x

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I usually don't write product reviews because I have a strange set or parameters that never meets most people's needs. However, this time I am writing one for Audio Technica M50X studio monitor headphones, which I have been using from last one month.  I don't qualify as an audiophile, but I do have average understanding of music and sound. I don't create music myself, but I appreciate ones which have been created already. I can differentiate between good, bad and ugly sound and can find the breaking point of most sound systems easily.  The Hunt : In year 2013, I visited an audio zone in a mall where they had all kinds of headphones to experience. It was first time I saw something like that and was excited to gets a hands on. I tried almost all headphones and noted the ones I liked.  Among them, Audio Technica M50 ticked all boxes except the price point. It demanded a premium ₹24000 and made me wonder if I would be able to afford one ever.  Later in 2014, I bought