It is not the case that those who shop @ Victoria's Secret color-coordinate their audio accessories with their retail bling [see shopping bag]. Except the young woman seated [above]. [NOTE: after I expressed how much I liked her head-gear; she smiled.]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York is the largest public transportation agency in the Western Hemisphere and among the largest in the world. Each day, approximately 8.5 million people rely on the agency's 5,000-square mile network of subways, buses, railroads, paratransit vehicles, bridges and tunnels spanning 14 counties in two states. MTA New York City Transit carries 7.5 million people per day on its network of subways and buses.
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Nearly as big as buildings [as illustrated above: Red Hook, Brooklyn] 2D Retail shopping is the new 'new.' For a more comprehensive understanding, I recommend [E-Commerce Times' linking policy forbids wholesale content placement; but allows for article titles to appear in blogs like the one you are presently reading] [hint: a search engine will help you locate the complete article]:
Bridging the Online-Offline Shopping Divide With 2D Tags
eliminating a Facebook friend — in effect; revoking a “friend request” etherizing a “friend,” “follower” — by way of an electronic dismissal; a pre-meditated action completely linked
to our wish for separation?
By a mere click, we are able to delete our
our once upon a time “friendships”
our Social Network[s]
audio-video 3D
in
HD.
An ever so slight motion of the wrist renders us free
@ liberty to wander
having reduced our opportunity for interactive schemas
Into the ether we sometimes go; diluted — On either side of our egos, prejudices, passions, delusions, assumptions, hopes — this way or that; we reverse ourselves, we withdraw from the Social Network. We decide to cut the tie. Or try.
Yet, while our bodies may not occupy the same space; the wizards and gnomes; eunuchs and saviors of our augmented selves, assure us we are bound; still, by those “friends in common.”
Who are we? Facebook demands that we answer this question — though we are @ liberty to comport fiction —
So too — Linkedin
Twitter
Flickr
Orkut
Path
One may ask:
Who are our accomplices?
For indeed, the company we keep gets us to where we want to go — the concert stage, the boardroom, the house in the excellent school district, serene nights by the crackling hearth; belly full, mortgage paid; grandchildren; bragging rights on the links [be they those conforming to PGA/LPGA standards or those owing to the vigilance of