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Are we using smartphones more than we need to? - The darkside of our smartphones

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                  As a precious gift of 21st century's technology, smartphones fill a great part of our daily lives. Our routine is now linked with them. Ashamed to say but we are in their custody now. Every time I unlock my phone, the first thing that comes to my mind is " What brought me to unlock this phone ? " and mostly the answer is " nothing " . If the answer is " something " sometimes, than that "something"  is no other than checking messages, notifications, and statistics of my social medias. It's not that every time I unlock my phone there is no logical reason. I often use it to have important communications,  to Google out my doubt or to solve my curiosity about something but after sometime that ghost of my phone takes me under it's control. So here's a question " Why are we checking our smartphone ever now and then just to find nothing (rarely something) new? or Why we remain hooked up with our smart

The reality of coffin dance meme!

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From past few weeks, you might have seen a meme in your social media where someone meets an accident and few African guys dance in a rock music carrying a coffin. This meme has provided a bit humour to our busy day but have you ever wondered who are those guys and why are they dancing with a coffin in somebody's funeral. Their story is very interesting. Lets breakdown the meme with some facts. Before knowing who those guys are and why are they dancing in someone's funeral, I would like to tell you some unknown facts about the meme. Many of you think that the dance and music used in meme are from same album & many of you even google for  the full version of the song. But you are wrong here. The dance and the music are totally different. I mean, dance and music are taken from two different sources. The dance video is taken from a BBC documentary where those African guys are featured dancing in their own band music in a funeral. All the clips used in memes are taken