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Buzz Feed
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
15 Things That Piss People Off
Look, we're all human and get mad at certain things every now and then. So when I saw that Reddit user chi-bacon-bits asked: "At your age, what instantly pisses you off?" I thought it would be relatable to share their opinions below: "People with ZERO spatial awareness." —Collt092 "When ONE person at work fucks up and instead of sitting that person down and fixing it with them, EVERYONE has to go through 'training' to know not to do what they already don't have a problem not doing. Bonus points for sitting in that training and looking over at the ONE person it is all for and seeing from their slack-jawed vacant eye stare that they aren't learning a damn thing." "People not listening/paying attention to you when you are speaking because they are distracted by their phone." —rorofish33 "I'm 32 and what instantly pisses me off is internet illiteracy. I'm not talking about little kids; they haven't had the chance to learn. I'm referring to people around my age and up who have used the internet for a good portion of their lives. It doesn't matter how many times they're warned, they still click links in emails, invest money into online 'businesses' without asking important questions, click suspicious ads, and accept whatever image they see as real. It never ceases to amaze me how many people fall for all of this time and time again. Then they complain about their computer not working right or being angry about something that isn't real. It's just so maddening." "Loud anything: neighbors, cars, conversations, music at restaurants, you name it, it'll piss me off." —YounomsayinMawfk "People who judge people off false assumptions about their age." "People who think being 23 means I've got unlimited energy, no stress, and 'my whole life ahead of me' so I shouldn't be tired or anxious. Like bro, I'm 23, not a Disney Channel character. Rent is due, my back hurts, and I have to Google how long to boil eggs. Let me be tired in peace." —Future-Surround "People who talk on the phone on speaker setting, or people who listen to music in public on their speaker. Rage." "Parents who let their children run amok." —BnCtrKiki "People who finish using something and just leave it. Like making a bowl of cereal and leaving the box on the side and not putting it back pisses me off. Same with milk being left out." "When the store changes its aisle placement." —merlin318 "The rising cost of living, that's just getting more and more wild each year, while the super rich worldwide spend billions on nonsense." "People staring at their phone while driving and driving like total shit." —Lizard_State2500 "People standing in the middle of the sidewalk, so you either have to walk through them or into the street to get around them. Share the effing sidewalk people!" "Everything. Now get off my lawn!" —Ok-Dot-5344 Is there something that instantly pisses you off? Tell us what it is and why in the comments or anonymously in the Google Form below.
Daily News Egypt
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily News Egypt
Indian embassy in Cairo launches 'Yoga at Iconic Place' contest for 2025 IDY
The Embassy of India in Cairo has launched a 'Yoga at Iconic Place' contest, inviting participants to submit photographs of themselves performing yoga poses at prominent landmarks across Egypt, to mark the 11th International Day of Yoga in 2025. This initiative aims to promote the spirit of yoga and highlight the cultural harmony between India and Egypt by encouraging participants to perform yoga in front of Egypt's most iconic landmarks. Participants are invited to send a clear and recent photograph of themselves performing a correct yoga posture (Asana) on a yoga mat at any well-known or culturally significant location in Egypt, such as the Pyramids of Giza, Cairo Citadel, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, or Karnak Temple. The embassy stated that the yoga pose 'should reflect discipline, balance, and serenity – core values of Yoga.' The submission window for the contest is open from 25 May to 10 June 2025. Participants may submit their photo via the official Google Form link: Entries will be evaluated based on creativity, the correctness of the yoga posture, aesthetic appeal, and the prominence of the iconic location featured in the background. Winners of the contest will be announced and felicitated during the grand International Day of Yoga celebrations on 21 June 2025. They will receive attractive cash prizes in recognition of their efforts. The contest is open to all yoga practitioners residing in Egypt, regardless of age or nationality. The embassy described it as 'a wonderful opportunity to combine wellness, photography, and cultural appreciation in a meaningful way.' The Indian Embassy in Cairo stated it 'warmly welcomes participants of all ages to take part in this contest. Join us in spreading the message of 'Yoga for One Earth, One Health' from the heart of Egypt's timeless landmarks.'
Time Business News
26-05-2025
- Business
- Time Business News
How to Transform Customer Insights into Actionable Product Improvements
There's no shortage of feedback out there. Your inbox, support tickets, reviews, social DMs, Slack channels, pick a direction and something's either broken, misunderstood, or annoyingly inconsistent. Welcome to the never-ending conversation that is customer insight. But here's the kicker: gathering feedback is easy. Acting on it? That's where most companies start doing cartwheels into the void. You don't need more surveys. You need less guesswork. What derails teams isn't the lack of customer data. It's the junk drawer they throw it all into. Different formats. No system. Lots of opinions pretending to be insights. If someone asks you, 'What's the one thing our customers want us to fix this quarter?' and you blink for too long, you've already lost. The real transformation begins when you stop treating feedback like a collection of feelings and start treating it like a map. A messy one, sure. But still a map. Let's be honest. Most feedback ends up in limbo. It's either buried under Jira tickets no one opens or sits inside a Google Form from 2021. That's not insight. That's digital hoarding. To even begin acting on feedback, you need a system. Tools like Deriskly or Arrow can help sort your chaos into clarity. They take all the unstructured stuff, comments, reviews, rants and start grouping them by topic, sentiment, urgency. Now you've got patterns instead of puzzles. And no, 'we use spreadsheets' is not a system. It's a confession. One of the biggest traps? Getting hypnotised by one vocal customer. You know the type. Caps lock, angry emojis, and somehow always 'a long-time user.' Don't fall for it. Data gets powerful when it stacks. If ten users mention confusing onboarding, that's weight. If one user writes a three-paragraph essay about a missing dark mode? That's Tuesday. The job isn't to react to noise. It's to identify repeat signals and build around them. Volume matters more than volume level. Here's the thing about feedback: you get what you ask for. If you're running surveys that sound like you borrowed them from a 2010 airline company—'How satisfied were you on a scale of 1 to 5?'—you're fishing with a spoon. Instead, ask things that lead to action. What nearly made them quit? What's confusing? What feels slow or clunky? What would they steal from a competitor if they could? This is where something like NPS customer feedback plays a role. But don't stop at the score. Dig into the 'why' behind a detractor's comment. That's where the good stuff hides—the stuff that actually tells you what's broken. Let's say a bunch of users say the UI feels 'clunky.' Okay, what now? You need to translate that into something buildable. Is it button placement? Loading times? Too many steps to do one simple task? Use tagging systems to break feedback down by specific areas of the product. Think: 'search function,' 'checkout flow,' 'onboarding tutorial.' This lets your team stop guessing and start fixing. You can also use AI tools to speed this up. Some platforms like GetArrow or Deriskly automatically tag issues by component, mood, and even business impact. It's like having an intern with zero sleep and perfect focus. Here's where most teams screw up: they ask, they analyse, they build something, and then they never follow up. That's how you lose people. If a customer takes time to give feedback, and you actually ship the fix—tell them. Send an email. Drop a quick message. Even better, mention them in your release notes (if appropriate). It makes people feel heard. Which is pretty much the currency of loyalty. This also encourages more feedback in the future. Because now they know you're listening. Everything is not equally broken. Just because feedback exists doesn't mean it deserves to be fixed. That's hard for some teams to accept. But your job isn't to make every customer happy but to make the product better in ways that matter. So how do you decide? Ask three things: How many users are affected? What's the impact on retention or conversion? How hard is this to fix? Use those to create a sort of 'pain vs gain' score. High pain, high gain? Move fast. Low impact, high complexity? Toss it in the backlog graveyard. Not every improvement needs a fanfare. Sometimes it's better to test changes quietly. A/B testing or rolling out tweaks to a small user group lets you validate whether your fix actually solves the problem—or just creates a new one. And if the test doesn't perform? Kill it, learn, move on. Better to fail in a controlled way than to spend months building something the market silently ignores. People lie. Not because they're evil. Just because we all think we're more rational than we are. This is why pairing qualitative feedback with actual usage data is key. Did someone say they love the new dashboard, but haven't touched it in two weeks? That's a gap. And gaps are interesting. Look at heatmaps. Session recordings. Drop-off points. They'll often show you what feedback can't. For example, maybe no one complains about your sign-up form, but 60% of people bounce halfway through it. Guess what? That's a problem hiding in silence. Product shouldn't be the only team reading customer feedback. Everyone should be in the loop support, marketing, sales, even engineering. It creates alignment and gives everyone context for what matters. Don't make it sacred. Make it shared. Set up a simple Slack channel or weekly digest where major patterns are dropped in. Keep it lightweight. Make it visible. Now your team isn't just fixing stuff. They're building for real problems. Your customers are basically telling you where the treasure is. You just have to stop ignoring the map. Getting feedback isn't a challenge. Interpreting it isn't even that hard anymore, thanks to AI. The real work is deciding what to act on and how quickly. Because in the end, product improvements don't come from brainstorming in a vacuum. They come from paying attention. And then doing something about it. If your roadmap doesn't have at least three items directly informed by customer feedback right now, it's probably a vanity project. Fix that. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Engadget
22-05-2025
- Business
- Engadget
You can now apply for verification on Bluesky
Bluesky is ramping up its verification program, even though it's still not exactly clear how it plans to determine which accounts are "authentic and notable" enough for a blue checkmark. One month after the company said it would start giving checkmarks to select accounts, the company is now allowing people to apply for verification . Currently, the application consists of a multi-page Google Form that asks users to share details about their account and why they want to be verified. However, it's not exactly clear what criteria Bluesky will be taking into account or how it will be reviewing what will almost certainly be a flood of applications. The company notes that it will only verify accounts that are "active and secure, authentic, and notable." Bluesky also recommends some obvious steps, like having a complete bio and using two-factor authentication. The linked form also asks users about what "category" they may fall into, such as an elected official, brand, athlete, journalist, academic or "other." But it sounds like Blueksy is very much still figuring out verification as it goes. "Our criteria for verification is evolving based on user feedback," the form states. "We will continue to expand the scope of accounts that are eligible for verification over time. This is an initial version of the form that will change as we finalize the requirements for verification." It also notes that "meeting the basic criteria does not guarantee verification." That could complicate things for Bluesky, which resisted the idea of having an in-house verification system until recently, despite repeated issues with impersonation . The service has more than 36 million sign-ups, and if even a small percentage of them request a badge, it could quickly overwhelm the company's small team. Notably, the platform is also expanding its " trusted verifiers ," which are third-party entities that can verify users (who get a slightly different-shaped checkmark) and vouch for their legitimacy. Organizations that want to verify on behalf of others can also sign up via the same form.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Teachers, Tell Us The Parenting "Red Flags" You Notice Right Away When Meeting A Parent Or A Kid For The First Time
If you've been a teacher for some time, you've probably come in contact with hundreds of parents and kids with different personalities, behaviors, and habits. While some may exhibit "green flags" of great parenting styles (i.e. the kids have manners or the parents kindly communicate with you about their child's needs), I'm curious to know: What are the automatic tell-tale signs that a parent or kid's behavior exhibits "red flags" parenting styles. Related: Since YA Is For EVERYONE, I Wanna Know If You've Read These 30 Books For instance, maybe after teaching for years, it's a clear sign a kid may be brought up with a toxic-like parent when the child tends to beat themselves up over the smallest things. Related: Guess Who Said These Famous Cartoon Catchphrases Or maybe parents with a pessimistic viewpoint about their child or their schooling usually mean they are highly critical of their children (and themselves). Finally, maybe when you see that both parents have hugely different parenting styles, it can indicate that the child will be confused about how to proceed in certain areas in school or friendships. Once you notice these parenting-style "red flags," do you, as the teacher, try to support the child in a particular way? If so, tell us what you've done and how it has impacted them, or you as a teacher. If the above resonates with you, and if you feel comfortable sharing, please tell us the automatic parenting style red flags you can easily pick up from a kid or parent when first meeting them in the Google Form or the comments to possibly be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post. Also in Community: I'm Preeeeeetty Sure I Can Tell If You're A Preteen, Teen, Or An Adult Based On This Quiz Also in Community: If You Can Name These Kids' Shows From A Single Theme Song Lyric, You're A Certified Nostalgia Expert Also in Community: We Know If You've Met Your Soulmate Or Not Based On Your Dessert Preferences
