Are minimum wages sufficient?

This notice here shows the data about the minimum wages and skill based categories in India (minimum wages figures are in INR). The working hours are mentioned but these could extend from 11 hours to 12 hours a day.

A Case Study: how practical these figures are:
This table shows the monthly expenses of last seven months of a person keeping a low economic profile in Gurugram (Haryana, India). These expenses include costs of rent, maintenance, electric and food. Rent is for a one room-set (or studio) apartment with a floor area of 220 sq. feet. Water is state-government provided. Lunches on weekdays are company provided.

Item	Expense	Month
House Rent	4500	Dec-2016
Maintenance	500	Dec-2016
Electric	200	Dec-2016
Food/Milk/Etc	2755	Dec-2016
Total	7955
House Rent	4500	Jan-2017
Maintenance	500	Jan-2017
Electric	200	Jan-2017
Food/Milk/Etc	3021	Jan-2017
Total	8221
House Rent	4500	Feb-2017
Maintenance	500	Feb-2017
Electric	200	Feb-2017
Food/Milk/Etc	3806	Feb-2017
Total	9006
House Rent	4500	Mar-2017
Maintenance	500	Mar-2017
Electric	200	Mar-2017
Food/Milk/Etc	4054	Mar-2017
Total	9254
House Rent	4500	Apr-2017
Maintenance	500	Apr-2017
Electric	200	Apr-2017
Food/Milk/Etc	3084	Apr-2017
Total	8284
House Rent	4500	May-2017
Maintenance	500	May-2017
Electric	200	May-2017
Food/Milk/Etc	3297	May-2017
Total	8497	May-2017
House Rent	4500	Jun-2017
Maintenance	500	Jun-2017
Electric	200	Jun-2017
Food/Milk/Etc	4712	Jun-2017
Total	9912	Jun-2017
Total	9051	Jul-2017
Total	7453	Aug-2017
Total	8541	Sep-2017
Total	9880	Oct-2017
Total	11678	Nov-2017

Clearly, if costs tend to increase monthly then living on the bare minimum is not possible.

Making 5000 friends on Facebook

Ever felt that you need to explore, meet people, try new language, new culture, influence politics, get influenced by politics, well, Facebook could be that place where to make overseas friends to achieve all of this. In addition, we are not talking about a group or two, we talking of five thousand of such friends. It starts with the user adding a few acquaintances and then developing on this group of people to get to other and more people.

For adding new people:

Facebook has this utility “People You May Know” where you can find people with whom you have mutual friends and these ones the user should add first.

Going forward this way, the application “Find Friends” helps discover people based on hometown, city (location), high school, mutual friend, college or university, employer, university (postgraduate). Find people with whom you have mutual friends, the more the better.

One has to be consistent in sending friend requests and adding the people, do not be shy, times could be testing, but make a note of sending at least ten friend requests a day. If one is feeling, s/he could be sending five hundred requests on occasions.

Getting people to add you:

There several factors in which you can influence people to add you, like location, mutual friends, interests, common activities, political inclinations, etc.

Put on a profile picture that shows you socializing and avoid mug shots. Put on a picture with the opposite sex, whether it is family, friends, colleagues or batch mates, anything would work if your picture shows you smiling and in the company. If you cannot find opposite sex, it would be difficult to recognize you between you and your friend(s).

Support a political party, for example edit your profile picture to put on the icons to support political parties (Democrats, Republicans, individuals). Use your profile cover photo space to put on banner supporting a political party. Chances are people supporting the same party would add you before you add them.

Put in information about you in the Facebook profile, be genuine, do not brag and let public see it so they know whom they are adding.

Be expressive while putting content on Facebook put your articles, pictures, application scores, one-liners, notes, anything, but be social and expressive.