The Eternal ambiguity of controlling user data - The value perspective ...Did I WhatsApp this !

Firstly thanks for the overwhelming response for the previous post .I am humbled indeed with the
mail responses I have got.I have tried to reply to most of them , pardon me if I have missed replying to anyone .

A different taste for my readers today with respect to topic - No Philosophy ,No reviews and No marketing of  business either which I any ways don't do here !This is strictly a personal blog for

"Life As It Is" readers .

So what has WhatsApp done for itself.Has it created a sense of insecurity with its users or its business as usual and people will "always" forget it after sometime.Do they don't know their data is already public !

 What WhatsApp missed here was it created insecurity by creating the ambiguity .It is one thing to be diplomatic in one way ,but when it comes to topics of privacy you need to come out clean.
So did they miss the trick?

When you make comments like sharing user  data for  "Other Purposes",its not about being politically incorrect here.

You are simply loosing the trust of the user.

User trust is more important than user data and the philosophy of the company should always focus on that .

Business is an outcome of that trust . Sustainability of business relies only on this point .


Is there a solution for this user controlled privacy ? Well, wait for my next post where I  will Go Bezirk on the same ! Maybe in some other forum...


Till then ...
                                                                                  LiFe As It Is Continues...

                                                                                                           Pavan

The Country of Billion People and the Olympic Dilemma !

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”, so says the line in Secret Garden !

I still believe its all about perspectives ! Oh a country of Billion ask many people and yet not many medals in Olympics  !So should we be winning a Billion Gold Medals?
There are reasons for everything and also for this.
India got its Independence 69 years ago to be precise (in another 2 days) and we have come a long way in all aspects .The country has been on an incremental curve especially after the Liberation of economy in 1991 in a fairy exponential way .
Exposure to most of the Olympic sports and the physical fitness preparedness is not developed and it needs its own processes and infrastructure support.

One can counter argue saying even small  African nations go ahead and win Gold medals.What facility and infrastructure they have ?There is always one Usain Bolt and we also have our own  Sania Mirza and Sania Nehwal  and not to mention the 2 legends in their own fields:  Sachin and Leander Peas .
We will definitely improve and we might not compete and even surpass China like we do in Information Technology but we have improved and the future looks brighter !

The mindset in the people of the country to look up to sports as a professional career should increase rather than making pessimistic comments about the country's talent pool.  This  could be a negative factor for  the next generation of stars.

Yes we still have Cricket as the major sport ,viz we all have grown with that.

Its like asking a North Indian you eat only rotis and south Indian you eat only rice.

Certain things need not change and certain things would change based on circumstances .

Sachin is still the "God of Cricket"and Rajini is still celebrated in an unprecedented way by the young and the old alike when his film releases .

We are a country where we celebrate our fellow countrymen's achievement as our own achievement and lets be proud of it!

There is a transition period for everything and we are slowing transitioning towards in a good fashion in many areas .

Yes, there are infrastructure issues ,corruption etc.But there are different problems every where in the world.

Its a nice fashion even for so called socialites to comment on  it ,but we should truly be proud that there is a Deepa Karmakar and an Indian among very few in the World who can do Produnova.

Let us celebrate and appreciate the moment and I am glad I could take 3 women as examples of excellence which itself shows the fact we have progressed from being a Male dominated country .

So the " Acche Din" of Indian Olympics might  not be far away and that might be the
                                                       "Tryst with Destiny"

                                                  Till then  Life As It Is continues ....