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To Do or Not to Do? The Answer Is a Click-Away
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Can’t decide whether to dump your boyfriend, move house or sell your car?
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The answer may be just a click-away.
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Two British men and three women will let the Internet play God for 15 days
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by handing over their daily,
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sometimes life-changing decisions,
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to a potential jury of 12.7 million people,
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Internet news portal MSN said in a statement.
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The five people were chosen as part of a project to give the Internet a chance
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to help ordinary people make important daily decisions.
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This latest venture comes three decades
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after the publication of Luke Rhinehart’s best-selling book “The Dice Man”,
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the story of a man who gives up his control of life to the dice,
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and follows the worldwide success of reality TV show “Big Brother”.
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Each of the five will put a decision a day to the Internet community
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and will have to act on the outcome of the decision,
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although they will be given a “joker”—
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meaning they can back out of one decision —
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during the period, MSN said.
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Internet users around the world will be able to vote on the decisions each day
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by visiting www.liveyourlife.msn.co.uk.
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A dedicated site has been created around each participant,
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giving information about their backgrounds,
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their loves, hates, hopes and daily diary updates.
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At the end of the 15 days,
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web users will decide which of the five has let the Internet
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live their life to the maximum
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and he or she will win 10,000 pounds.
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In the past people tended to rely on dice
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or some fortune books to decide their next action.
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Nowadays it seems a popular trend to express their problems on the Internet to seek help.
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But is it really beneficial to make decisions based on the Internet?
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Or we’d better depend on ourselves and be responsible for our own lives.