Jan-Lukas Else

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Why I Deleted My Reddit Account - I don’t like social media

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Maybe I’m getting paranoid right now, or maybe I’m going into some sort of social media detox. After deleting my Facebook account some time ago and saying goodbye to Snapchat, I also deleted my reddit account. Why? That’s what I’m telling you here…

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7 Things I Really Learned At School - Life Lessons I Collected At School

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Today I’ll be talking about seven “life lessons” which I learned during my school days, even though they may not have become clear to me immediately, but actually make a lot of sense if you look back now. Many of them are likely to be useful later in life outside of school.

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5 Harsh Reasons Why Snapchat Sucks - And Why I Deleted It From My Phone

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How many flames have you got? Who’s your red heart? What’s your score?

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The One Decisive Reason I Left Facebook - And Why It’s So Liberating

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Have you noticed, too? At least for me, it felt like nothing was happening on Facebook. My generation (I was born 1999) seems to use Facebook only to comment on useless memes and mark each other as often as possible under posts.

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4 Reasons Why I Stopped Living on Medium - Building My Own Blog

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Actually, I was a Medium hardcore fan. Medium was something like my home. For my writings. And it was the place where I found some reading material.

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Is Android also a Walled Garden?

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The openness of the system is often praised as one of the main reasons for Android enthusiasts. You can install apps not only from the official store (Google Play) but also from other sources. But isn’t that like running a Windows computer without a virus program?

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Why Does Everyone Want to Be Like All Others? - On Losing Our Uniqueness

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Why are we trying to adapt our behaviour to that of other people? Why do we want to be like others? Why do we want to have what others have? Why do we absolutely want to belong to this mass of people who somehow try to be equal?

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What’s this blog? (And what about Medium?)

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Or why I rent just another server now…

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Android and the Fragmentation Problem

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Guess what one of Android developers’ biggest problems is! Well, guess what? It’s the fragmentation! And who’s fault is it? Google? Nope, the manufacturers!

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I’ll Buy the Xiaomi Mi A1 when it get’s Oreo

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Yes, I will really get my money together and buy this device when it has received the Oreo update, even if it is after Christmas.

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