Jure Cuhalev

Posts Tagged ‘Society

04 Nov, 2009

“Running is bad for your knees”

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant

It always amazed me at how two-faced our society is. On one hand, everyone is talking about exercise and healthy living/eating/etc, while on the other they’re criticizing and discouraging anyone who actually decided to follow the advices everyone is so full of.
The first one I always hear is:
running is bad for your knees, you’ll have [...]

24 Sep, 2008

You’re a human being – sociology tip #1

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas

Studying sociology and related social sciences has a strange impact on a person. I don’t believe it’s possible to study society and it’s inner working, rules and other related things, without changing your behaviour. You learn a few different rules along the way that helps you rationalize your decisions and your own worlds.
What I’m going [...]

13 Sep, 2008

Facebook as a giant relationship gossip feed

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas

I was looking at my Facebook feed today as a pattern suddenly occurred to me. From all the things people post to their account or change, almost the only one that consistently gets at least one comment from someone is when they change relationship status to a lower level. Going from married to single or [...]