It was 2004 when I first learned to create an email account and now 5 years down the line, I’ve an account on every e-mailing site, exist on every social networking website (ya, even on tagged.com). The times when even a “Hello, how are you doing?” made me feel important has transformed to 6000+ boring scraps. It’s the most significant part of my life – internet. Significant, not because I got a 1 million lottery over the web but I’ve been observing that I want every small significance of my life to reflect on facebook first. That’s why, yeah, a thing with lots of significances- significant.
It’s become such an addiction that updating my status has now become more important than bread & butter or even going to the loo. Buy the movie tickets later but tweet about watching a movie first, with friends after a long time but update through mobile web that you’re having a great time with them. Where is the great time if your priority is to tweet first rather than enjoy being with them?
I remember one day I saw this friend of mine take a really insane quiz (the new way to know yourself –FB quizzes. BREAK). Anyways, the quiz was, “Which Dil Mil Gaye character are you?” and his answer was Armaan. He says and I quote, “Yay, Armaan. Wat say gals?” Girls, I don’t know what they’d say if they saw you for real. WTF may be…
Even if I looked an idiot, my facebook and orkut profile must be really beautiful & my display pic – Star Studded (stud refers to me). After some sweet comments on the picture by my chweet-chweet FB friends (fucking pretenders*), I joined Orkut’s Most Stylish People community. The biggest achievement of my life has been that the community had my picture as it’s display for a day. Whoa!!! Thank god for orkut. Otherwise I’d have died of the guilt that I did nothing. At least now my parent wouldn’t complain that I do nothing worth. I’m the face of orkut after all. LOL
There are lots of things you’d see around you happening really amazing. I thought clicking pictures was for memories buts now its because you want to show it off on these sites. This group of girls & guys were posing & working out which snap would get the maximum praisy-praisy comments. (courtesy: fucking pretenders again*). Pranks have reduced to putting up an embarrassing picture of a friend and others giving their ridicule comments on it. What the hell?
Okay now I think I’m being too critical?
Let me tell you something good it has done.
No don’t expect: Being in touch, sharing lives, networking, new friends & those crap bullshit defends…
The good it has done is for people who can’t talk. It has given them the platform (read: the keyboard) to stand up & speak. Observe their ‘Right to Express’. Gone are the days when girls only went to bold guys who talk with a great sense of humor, everyone here is a rock star & can have the LOL’s coming in from the chicks. Ya, some studs have ‘LMAO’ come in as well, lucky fellas. It’s given the introverts & writers like me a privilege to tell those hot chicks that, no we’re not boring. We’re adventurous and we love bungee jumping & scuba diving too. Wooing a girl has become a lot easier in this world of twitterati.
119crores and plus (+1, +2, +3…lol) and only 5% of the country’s population is on the net. Imagine how life would change even if 60crores of them were tweeting & facebooking & orkutting. Would be enigmatic to know ‘which cartoon character my dad is?’ (ROFLMAO….gals you can comment ‘lol’ for this one)
Funny world – Social networking rather Virtual Networking. Just hope I start living for real and stop being so virtual about everything. (I’m a great farmer as well by the way). I want this to be an ‘extension of me’ and not ‘ME’.
I hope you get the message. Till then happy facebook(ing) & orkutting & tweeting too.
- Bhavesh Dodi(y)a
