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Here is the second blog with the tasks of our boys/men. Read them properly, then come back to the previous blog with girls´/women´s works and you can VOTE by ONE comment you will add there - ONE VOTE FOR THE GIRL SECOND ONE FOR THE BOY.

D A R K  K N I G H T

THE FIRST TASK

Human is a social animal. He has a natural tendency to be in a community. So he likes to be in company of friends. Making friends is an art and any art require practice. Making friends require good communication skills and a way of expressing yourself to others. The number of friends a person can have depends on his personality. For example, an extrovert tend to have more friends than an introvert cause they seem more friendly to people. Introverts tend to think more & talk less, they don't like company of others, they prefer to stay alone, so they have less friends. 

Making new online friends:

Internet has changed dramatically the way how we make friends. Making friends has become very easy these days. There are many sites for making friends out of which Facebook is the most popular today.Beside facebook there are twitter, linkedln, google+, yahoo, gmail etc.

 Facebook is indented to make friends that you already know in real & it's policy says there should be one profile for each person. Facebook is used to stay in touch with our real friends even when we are 1000 km apart. So, Facebook friends are no more differ than real friends. Of course you can randomly add anyone on Facebook but that would be ridiculous and of no use, friends aren't made by random adding, right..?

So, when it comes to make new friends on internet ( by 'new' i mean stranger i.e. u haven't seen that person in real before adding him as a friend ), we have to resort to some other sites like joining an online community with people of common interest.

Why we tend to make the friends over the internet :
This question is a tricky one. Each person has his own reasons to do this, but the most common reasons are :-

1. All of us want to express themselves. but we can't do this to our real friends cause fear of causing somebody hurt, but with online friends, we can express ourselves fully as they don't know anything about us.

2. All of us are a little bit lonely from inside, we do many things to fill that emptiness, Making online friends is one of those many things.

3. Internet provides an opportunity of being anonymous is very helpful for an introverted person. When you give someone a mask to hide himself , he can tell the truth about you in front of yourself.

4. To achieve some common goal like learning languages etc.

5. To be in the company of like minded people, people who share common interest with us

6. To know about other cultures, religion etc. & to expand our knowledge

These were good reasons, some people may have their own selfish reasons too. For example :-

1. They want to be popular, so they think more the number of friends they have, more popularity they will get.

2. Some are desperate, they make friends to find their lovers. They see the face of their girlfriend/boyfriend in every girl/boy.

3. We can chat online at anytime, anywhere and  in any physical condition ( like in bathroom) these facility aren't there with real friends. 

4. We can chat with lot of people online...but in reality we have to see the same faces again & again (only applicable to those people who get bored easily)

This list is not exhaustive. There can be much more reasons which i don't know or not able to recollect at this time.  

My experience :
My experience is very little in this area. I made my facebook account 4 years ago, before this i knew nothing about internet & all topics related to that. But i started to spend time on it i got addicted to it and i had a hard time in getting rid of this addiction. In Facebook, 95 % of my friends are real (again real means i have personally met them at least once ) 

I started to add unknown people as friends on chess.com 2 years ago, but i played only chess with them, no chatting & talking at all, so they can't be called as friends.

Then recently about 2 months ago, I came here on EC and made friends. Here i have chatted a lot on various topics and realized that indeed chatting is fun. I got addicted to this site too along with chess.com. I got so much involved in this club that I  made a skype group along with my friend (stranger in the night) and we have lot of fun there too. Now we have some 20 people in that group, and most of them are very nice. 

 Till now, i haven't any bad experience here in EC , initially i had some arguments with some people but i think these are normal & can be considered as a part of discussion.

Precautions :
As most of our online friends are anonymous, there are chances of identity theft etc. Some people can be spying on you. Some may even can hurt you.

But if you do care of all these things , you won't be able to do anything.

You have to prepare your mind strong enough to deal all this.

One precaution that you must take is that, if you are planning to meet your online friend in real, don't go alone, always be with at least one mutual friend. And also arrange your meeting at some public place, not at a lonely place as there are cases of murder attempts by pedophiles using online friendship.

And think twice before giving your personal details like bank account,home address, your password etc.

But for a normal person,these cases have very less probability to occur (1 in a million), even the road accidents have much more probability than this. So i think you shouldn't care about this too much unless you are some famous celebrity.

Finally i would like to conclude this by following sayings, 

'' A friend in need is a friend indeed, Doesn't matter whether he/she is online or real"

" It's better to have one good enemy than having 100 bad friends."

(Note :- Although I have generalized my views by using words like 'all' & 'we' , I claim with best of my knowledge that these are my personal views & opinion . I take full responsibility of whatever I have said but not for what you understood as anything can be interpreted in many ways. If anyone has any objection , kindly let me know. We will discuss it in main & hopefully be able to find a reasonable conclusion.) 

THE SECOND TASK

1. What do you find simply the best about yourself?

My power of controlling anger which most of the people just can't until they get very old.

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

My Internet connection 

3. What do you hate and why?

Wasting time....cause time is life. It's more valuable than money. Money can be earned but time can't be. We can only manage it.

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

A Dreamer...but i do have realistic dreams. Sometimes so realistic that they don't let me sleep.

5. What is your biggest fear?

Fear of losing my loved ones, i can't imagine myself without them

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

I am very bad at selection. It's really very hard for me to select one over another, which had very serious consequences in my life.

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

Nothing..!! because of following 2 reasons:-

         1. I am happy & satisfied with my present state. Every event of my past have some contribution in making this beautiful present.

        2. Changing anything is against nature & I am a true admirer of nature.

8. What does money mean to you?

Money is a medium to get materialistic pleasure but real pleasure comes from our heart & state of health. Money is for us , we are not for money. I have a huge sympathy for all those who have ruined their life just for getting more money but couldn't use that for making their life better.

9. Let´s suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

I wanna go to outer space & experience how it's to be like without influence of earth's gravity. Also i wanna our earth from space. cause from there It's a whole single entity without any political boundaries.

10. Why should people vote for you?

To be honest, I don't know. I am just expressing myself, if anybody like it can vote for me. By the way, voters should know themselves why they are voting for somebody.

THIRD TASK

1. I have decided to tell you finally the truth about myself, I consider myself a dark knight.

2. I have just seen the mouse in this restaurant, do you think there is a computer in this restaurant.

3. Yes, I will do everything for you, even I can lie for you as I just did.

4. The fire is close, we set fire to the rain.

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will stare him back in a well-known way.

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THE FIRST TASK

          World with this new technology became as a little village, specially if we are using social networks such as: Skype ,Facebook..., connecting and making friends from all the world, all what you have to do is creating account it can be fun and even it can be dangerous in same time because in my opinion I think that making friends through internet has advantages and disadvantages.

          I have been able to make new friends since I was 18. I also am able to stay in contact with friends who have moved far away or for example my cousins are far about 700km that’s make communication much easier in the net, besides if you want to learn language  you can choose  a good partner has good level to facilitate communication and improving talking,They can to be any age, race, sex, size,  specially you cant be in the same room which is especially good in the case of smelly feet –iam kidding-

         Another thing that happened to me  is I received and exchange  knowledge and appreciation of the different cultures around the world, of course not everything but I got ideas about that atleast

         However , even internet  has good things we should alwyse keep in minds that there are risks in such friendship because You don't really know for sure they are who they say they are, How can you trust a person that you know only his/her name and who knows if that fake too specialy in English club or other chat site  are a lot. 
         As an ending for me internet friends are not better than the friends of real world Because  Good friends are wonderful. They're there to support you and to help you. They make you laugh and feel good or lucky that you have them  but the virtual ones You can't be close to them physically , you can't hug/hold hands etc You can't go out for a drink, swim, pub crawl, game and there is always a chance you are talking to your local x Murderer.

THE SECOND TASK

1. What do you find simply the best about yourself?

I find simply best about me that iam serious, confident in myself

And good trustful friend.

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

I would miss the most if I should live on the desert I think my family because I have a great family and I thnk god gift me such wonderful family

3. What do you hate and why?

I hate people who think they are high they are perfect and liars too because it bad  acts  making me angry like wanna explode :)

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

This is tough one :D IAM NOT ALWAYSE REALIST

5. What is your biggest fear?

I fear dieing burning

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

My negative is iam too much gentle but i think I will try to fix that 

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

I will change nothing

8. What does money mean to you?

Money means nothing for me I just ask good health and use money in good way

9. Let´s suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

I whish I can fly around the world

10 Why should people vote for you?

Its ok if i dont get any vote because participating in this test is honor for me specially whith this respectful candidates .

THE THIRD TASK

1. I have decided to tell you finally the truth about myself, I consider myself  psycho

2. I have just seen the mouse in this restaurant, do you think we can cook it and lets see ppl if they notice that

3. Yes, I will do everything for you, even  can change my mind and go to sleep 

4. The fire is close, we might burnt 

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will take of his eyes and give them to the dog eat them

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This is a statement that will be appeared by someone if we spent our time in front of our laptop “what are you doing?” and when we said “ I am online”, may be they will give their judgement that we are like a lazy person who spends our times in unclear world such as internet world.

Yet for me, it is just a rumour for many people who have narrow perception about internet. I want to say “they are unwise people” so I want to change their mind-set about it. Yeah many people know me that I am like an online boy, because I spent many times in online activities. I believed and it is my hypothesis that they will have perception that “ I am like a lazy boy, and my life is depending on the virtual world(internet).

Okay, to be honest, I will get bored easily, if I am not online, but you must know that I am online just for useless activates, if you have mind-set like that “100% you are wrong”. Since I joined EC, and I have spent my times here, I felt that I got positive effects here.

Here on EC : I have done many positive activities and they are my positive virtual life :\

- I love writing ( since 8 months ago till now, I had written about 278 blogs, they were my series stories, children stories, poems, articles and anything) I am really proud them, although in many times I did many mistakes in grammar, yet I am glad, they are many members who care me, they corrected my mistakes, such as Noas, Anele, WMW, and others.

- On EC, I found my hobby “ I like writing poems”

- On EC I learnt how we keep our reliationship with others, how we respect with others.

- On EC,I had found my virtual families, they supported me, thank you all my families here.

- I started realized my dreams, as like as an article in my blog before that I had realized one of my big dream to meet native or foreigners. And from EC, I had realized it.
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- And there are many my positives activities here, I do not want to make you bored, if I must tell them all.
If they still think that “spend our life on virtual world (internet) is a useless activity, I want to show them that their statements “ARE WRONG”, I LOVE EC, I ENJOY MY SECOND LIFE HERE, IN VIRTUAL WORLD.
THANK YOU
DIMAS PRASETYO.

THE SECOND TASK

1. What do you find simply the best about yourself? 

I am sensitive man

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

water

3. What do you hate and why?

I hate a liar, because a liar is hypocrite

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

I am a dreamer

5. What is your biggest fear?

I am afraid if many people who love me will forget and leave me

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

I am nervous to try a new thing

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

I want to change my education place in overseas

8. What does money mean to you?

Money is important thing to my education.

9. Let´s suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

  I want to meet EC MEMBERS IN A CONFERENCE

10. Why should people vote for you? 

I have potency, and I do not need popularity, but I just want to realize my dream through my statements here

THE THIRD TASK

1. I have decided to tell you finally the truth about myself, I consider myself is a clod hopper who has explained my truth easily to public

2. I have just seen the mouse in this restaurant, do you think the mouse can cook ratatouille, and I will ask the mouse, how to make a luscious ratatouille, because I ever watched the movie about it

3. Yes, I will do everything for you, even I must do craziness

4. The fire is close, we ask  what is your gender? I am curious to know, because I think everything has gender. Even a word in France has gender, masculine and feminine, may be fire has it

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will give him an eye glass, maybe he has problem with his eyes to define about man or female.

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S E E K E R

 THE FIRST TASK

When I joined EC, I started to write blogs and chat in the chat room. In the chat room I met with different friendly, energetic, intelligent and cooperative persons. Some of them had bad attitudes but they were in negligible quantity. I spent a lot of time with so many nice members and most of them are still my friends. Some members liked me a lot and I too liked them so much and I would call them my close friends of EC.
Now they are my online friends. I miss them, when they are not online. I feel sad, when they are not in a good mood and I live their happy moments too. They are just like my real friends. I enjoy my life with my real friends; I do the same with my online friends too.
In the chat room, I met with some member who were (and are) so practical about online friendship. They spend time with other chatters and forget them when they are not online. I learned from these members that I need to be practical when I am dealing with online friends.
On the basis of my experience in the chat room, I can say that online friends cannot be compared with real friends. Online friends are with us virtually while real friends are present practically before us. Sometimes a real friend or relative can be an online friend too when he is far from us for whatever reasons and an online friend can be real if we can meet with him in real life.
Some cautions are necessary when you are dealing with online members. Some boys chat with a girl name and some girls chat with a boy name. Never share your personal details to anyone so soon. Being over- emotional can be harmful.

THE SECOND TASK

1. What do you find simply the best about yourself?

The best thing about me is compassion. I feel other’s grief easily and I enjoy other happiness too. I love to share.

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

If I had to live on a desert island, I would miss so much my parents. I consider only God above them but I would not miss him because God would be with me there too.

3. What do you hate and why?

I hate nothing. I want to love and I need love.

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

I am a realistic person but I like to dream too. Dreams make a person alive and dreams give a person a goal to be achieved. We have dreams, desire and curiosity, that is why we are the most successful species in the world.

5.  What is your biggest fear?

My biggest fear is cursing of a poor and sad person. I like to get blessing of people.

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

The worst negative thing in me is that I am an emotional person. I am a touchy person too.

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

If I count turn the time back, I would use those hour in a positive way which were wasted by me.

8. What does money mean to you?

Money is like an instrument for me to live life with leisure and peace.

9. Let´s suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

I wish to realize God.

10. Why should people vote for you?

The members of EC are free to vote anyone. I know they are wise enough to choose the best among the participants.

THE THIRD TASK

1. I have decided to tell you finally the truth about myself, I consider myself like a ghost.

 2. I have just seen the mouse in this restaurant; do you think it came from the pot of curry? I saw curry on his skin.

3. Yes, I will do everything for you, even I will kill you for ensuring your seat in the heaven.

4. The fire is close, we should be more closer to fire. So cold is here.

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will kiss him. I cannot stop me when a person stare at me in this way.

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E L   J U E G O

THE FIRST TASK

I am not going to write too much. Because I do not have lot of words to say about making friends over the internet. I just know that I can not compare my real friends(sincere) with internet friends by the way that does not mean I do not care about my internet friends. But I do not want to explain it here , you must know that I wanted to be a voter in this nice competition but I have joined it as a candidate because of my friends ..

THE SECOND TASK

1. What do you find simply the best about yourself?

My 6th sense , my 6th sense helps me to understand events and people quickly. 

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

my football shoes and ball. 

3. What do you hate and why?

I hate someone who denies his/her lies, because I can not accept that someone as a friend 

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

I am like a realist in a dream. 

5. What is your biggest fear?

Doctors.

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

My anger. 

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

I would accept that apple was offered by my neighbour 7 year ago. I am not that one who wish change something in before life. 

8. What does money mean to you?

Money is not the purpose to live , Money is the means to live

9. Let's suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

then make me Admin of EC (I could not find any serious answer)

10. Why should people vote for you?

I am here to for fun. There's no one obliged to vote.

THE THIRD TASK

1. I have decided to tell you finally the truth about myself, I consider myself a liar so I can not tell you the truth never .

2. I have just seen the mouse in this restaurant, do you think that restaurant works as a computer ?

3. Yes, I will do everything for you, even listening to your voice while singing. 

4. The fire is close, we should take off our dresses ?

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will call the zoo to ask that "any animal escaped recently?"

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N H

THE FIRST TASK

Making friends on the internet has never been a good experience for me uptill now the reason being the anonymity of the friend u are talking to ... and the distance ofcourse, and the curiosity too, and the unavailability sometimes , and the limitations. oh i forgot to mention the money ( either u pay your internet bill's or else you are gonna lose ur friends )

well, He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend but it seems the internet users have spent all their money on paying internet bill.
i believe in friends of real life because only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
The internet has made the friendship like ; Any friend of someone is a friend of mine. How many friends do u have in your friend's list ? OMG 2174 

I don't find more words to write, simply 

      " My thumb is down foe the internet friendship "

THE SECOND TASK

1.What do you find simply the best about yourself?

Best about myself ...hmmm... ( thinking ) ( thinking hard ) my sense of smell, i surmise

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

on a desert island i will miss the " SAND " the most.

3. What do you hate and why?

i hate answering questions , because most of the times i don't know the answers.

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

would u define 'dreamer' if this means the one who dreams a lot then i am a dreamer for sure because i sleep a lot.

5. What is your biggest fear?

 My biggest fear is the fear of winning the Mr.EC 2014 competition.

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

the worst negative side of me is my optimism.

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

 if i lose this competition, i am gonna go back to the day when i said " I am in" and i am gonna change the words to " i don't wanna compete, i am out "

8. What does money mean to you?

money for me is nothing. if u don't believe me , ask me for money and you will get nothing.

9. Let´s suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

 i wish to be the only admin of the EC. ( make my wish come true, u fairy )

10. Why should people vote for you?

 i find no reason for it

THE THIRD TASK

1. I have decided to tell you finally the truth about myself, I consider myself  an expert of unsuccessful relationships.

2. I have just seen the mouse in this restaurant, do you think  the lady we saw in the bikini on the beach , drinking milk was the cat.

3. Yes, I will do everything for you, even i will through you out of the window of a room which is on the 110th floor.

4. The fire is close, we have to open it.

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will  stare at him in a much stranger way.

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A K A S H

THE FIRST TASK

 "Making friends over the internet "

we are in the Era of 21st century where social networking became so popular with the invent of technological aspects by which we are sorrounded by;
internet is the most busiest place but mostly floodly with chat rooms and the members if we talk specifically ;alternatively we can say the world of internet is no more less than our imagin-
-ations which we sometimes want to become true .Life is Busy thereby causing boredom sometimes- when we are sick of handling the same routine-including talking to same (knowing the same person)
again and again ;Lonelyness keeps some people attached to social networks finding new friends due to certain reason :including poverty.,frank aspects;business; surveys ; fun ;education and much more .....
if we think then we held by lots of errors in our lives we are unable to work out also -so better taking advices with friends unknown to you cuz known will surely give you advice but we know there exist some breeds of extraordinary talents and experience in that specifics and keep the hell lot of problems on one side even.
biologically if we speak -even the single cell felt alone and combined with the unknown to form a living organism :D
" Internet friends " can sometime be better than the ones we make friendship with in our real lives : it depends on your thinking if you are unable to get the qualities and unable to find someone
understandable same as you- you opt to take less advices from him/her .in other words you work out to be Rational but sometimes you feel better in adjusting with the opposites too .
but the problem is not so easy to solve cuz you don't have experience with them in the past so we don't know their mindset and intentions ! but as i told we are Rational and we can surely differentiate
between right and wrong if we ask to ourselves in person.
its like "you wanting to enjoy their company or not "!

We even come across lots of people over internet who try to take advantage of the situations : First knowning them and then playing tricks on them ,so in this case we have the disadvantage too : so we need to choose the friends wisely with open minds : its like " we have a coin and having 2 sides and sometimes destiny plays roles . Every person on the earth has some positves and some negatives but we always try to be on the primary side :)
sorry to say " we are attracted towards false easily and they tend to attract faster "
yeaaa some friends on internet are worth " and we hopely like to meet them in real life too :)
but i tell you its never easy cuz you haven't met them before ,situations in the real life are far more different from this fake world "
social network is just the part of life and not the whole open frank life " we need to understand this ".
Well social network has fullfilled lots of mine expectation to talk and know about different countries and their culture and lifestyle thereby making me more sound in knowledge with great friends .
Actually we can know all through different sites too but that is hell boring phenomenon like mugging it up :D but i can get it over here all that in a friendly and
socialable way moreover with talking live people and lots of fun and enjoyment in between :)
Social network has turned globally the world into "social village ".
well what else i can say i had enough of the material i hope so you have fully understood " what social network brought changes to our lifestyle " .

Thanks guys for reading all that :)

THE SECOND TASK

1. What do you find simply the best about yourself?

Best about myself is i am interested in bringing up changes(+/-) in my life and the life of deceased people.

2. What would you miss the most if you should live on the desert island?

I will miss social network the most :) 

3.What do you hate and why?

i hate when we are not treated equally  inspite of the fact we are under the same roof i.e " Politics".

4. Do you consider yourself realist or dreamer?

i consider myself a dreamer where i think that we are living in some kind of illusion and will be knowingly knowing the truths after our death and we are here for some purpose .

5. What is your biggest fear?

i am feared of evil spirits and bad qualities to those i always want to stay away.

6. What is the worst negative side of you?

my worst negative side is sometimes i become too emotional and soft hearted with people :)

7. If we could turn the time, what would you change in your life?

i would like to change My place of birth cuz i always dreamt of living abroad :)

8. What does money mean to you?

money means much to me though it can't be used to buy happiness .....but happy moments are the output of money today .

9. Let´s suppose we can make one of your wishes come true – which one would it be?

my wish to is know the fact how life originated and related facts of life :)

10. Why should people vote for you?

people should vote for me if i deserve :)

THE THIRD TASK

1. I consider myself the only person who turns into popeye after having energy drink(Gatorade) and can save the girl like he use to after having spinach saving olive from brutus :D
do you think i can have that much energy after having gatorade? lolz :D

2.  I have just seen the mouse in this restaurent , do you think --yea i think he will slowly come towards you
show his tonuge and eat all that stuff on your table :D

3. yes , i will do everything for you even providing you my facebook password :D

4. The fire is close, we should try to test whether it hurts :D or just stops daring not to come so close to you lolz .

5. That one man stares at me in the strange way, I will go and ask him ..do i come in your dreams or what ha ? :D
come on guy now face the situation --- he say's -  see you look like an alien that's why :D .