Traffic System in the Philippines

                   Traffic congestion has been one of the primary problems of urban cities across the world. This is mainly due to poor traffic management and also to too much vehicles on the main streets in a particular time. This time is usually called “rush hour”. This is also experience in our local setting, especially on our main roads. This prevailing problem starts up during the industrialization of our country where engine powered vehicles becomes the main tool for transportation. This includes private and public vehicles.

 

                Providing solution for these requires a lot of consideration from two parties: the vehicle operators and commuters. Just recently, we have seen the local government of Manila in regulating buses in entering its premise. In this new ordinance, buses that are considered “colorum” or without proper registrations and without a respective terminal are prevented from entering the streets of Manila. Within a few days after its implementation, it has created a lot of mixed reaction from the commuters and bus drivers. MMDA (Metropolitan Manila Development Authority) has also implemented some ordinance which covers some major roads here in Metro Manila. A bicycle lane was created along EDSA, from MRT-Mantrade station up to MRT-Ayala station. This is to give options to commuters who need a quick trip between two stations when heavy traffic occurs within the vicinity. Buses that travel along EDSA are classified into three and each classification are given a respective loading and unloading area along the main road to lessen up bus congestion within the area.

                Traffic system here in the Philippines needs more further improvement which needs cooperation from the government, the commuters and vehicle drivers and operators as well. This kind of situation is generally unavoidable but with proper discipline from all respective parties and an efficient, working traffic system, we can minimize this to happen. We must abide to the basic rules of the road and whenever there are new rules to be implemented, all we can do is to adapt into it and slowly accept it if we found it inconvenient for us. These rules are not created just to make our traffic system to be more difficult but rather reconstruct it to minimize traffic congestion in our roads and streets. It will help us ease our traveling experience and to be able to reach our destination much faster than usual.

Redundancy in Social Networking Sites

Since the boom of Internet in the late 20^th to the beginning of the 21^st century, social networking websites also start its influential bloom in the web arena.  Hundreds of these establish their own place in the Internet and offer unique but user-friendly services to prospective users. The most popular of these services are photo sharing, personal status updates and place tagging. Though creative in its nature, most of these services tend to overlap with other websites that we could find redundant in terms of offered services across these social network sites.

Social networking sites continue to evolve through continues variation of social services that could improve the user’s relationship with its connection. The most simple of them all is status update and sharing. This is to encode what we feel, what we do or simple what we would like to share to our connections. We could site Friendster as one of those pioneers in this service but since the decline of its popularity, Facebook, Twitter and other sites has also offer this service. Photo sharing allows pictures to be shared among the user’s connection, in single or multiple shots. Instagram is a prominent website for this though we could see Friendster, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare also had this. One unique feature of Facebook for photo sharing is that we can tag connections to our shared photo for easy access. One last prominent social service is place tagging where we could share we the user is to his or her connections. Foursquare is popular on this while Facebook also have this service.

From these examples, we could see that Facebook have all these popular services. Thus, these implies a rich offer of social services from Facebook which all known social networking sites have. This could reduce users from other social network sites that offer the same service with Facebook. Shared social services across various social networking sites create confusion to user. This can also provide some sites to monopolize these services. In order to prevent this, some sites provides synchronized posting with other sites, provided that it is allowed by the user. From all of this, what is important to the users of these social networking sites is that they can provide connection to their loved ones through the power of Internet.