A good friend sent me a link to a wonderful article called Am I Ugly – the harrowing article discussed a new social media trend, namely young girls who go to Youtube and post videos asking whether they are pretty or ugly. To see this in action, head over to Youtube and search “Am I Ugly”. If you don’t want to take the time to search Youtube, do yourself a favour and watch this video.

Before you dismiss this as another teen girl social media trend (remember the moronic haul videos?), consider the introduction to this video:

“Hey guys, umm, I just wanted to make a random video, oh yeah this is a koala hat, um, yeah I just wanted to make a random video to see if I’m like ugly or not because a lot of people call me ugly and I think I am ugly. I think I’m ugly and fat.”
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This post’s random (creative commons attribution) Flickr photo was taken by a photographer who goes by 1wan. This untitled photograph makes me want to condense my life into a backpack and hit the road.

Have any of you used Dropbox? If you aren’t familiar, Dropbox is a file hosting/synchronization service that essentially acts like one big online hard drive. You can save files onto your Dropbox and then access them from any device with an internet connection. This means that you can save a .pdf on your PC at home, then open it up with your iPhone when you’re on the other side of the world. Cool idea, right? Adding to its appeal, Dropbox has an amazing interface – you sit down and instantly feel comfortable using this particular offering.

Dropbox is in the data storage business, which means that it has to provide two totally unique (and often competing) experiences to users:

• It must make it easy to save and retrieve files from Dropbox
• It must keep customer data secure

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