Target Audience : Strictly Indians.
Aren't we too social? A child born in Indian society is already pretty social. It has, apart from parents, uncles , aunts and uncle's aunt and aunt's uncle. Of course there are grandparents and more grandparents and infinite cousins from the family tree.
Once the baby is all done being a toddler, it starts to have friends from the 'play school' and then school, Further high school and then the college.
In all this process of growing up from school to college, there is a formation of 'family friends' where parents are friends and then their kids are friends with each other.
With so many people around and our inherited general social behaviour do we really need social networking! Social Networking seemed awesome once when I could catch with my long lost buds and carry on 'to be on contact' with long distance-d friends. But after a point it all seemed very unnatural. Personally I have always been a very social being. After a while on Facebook, I realized that although once it was nice to connect with old acquaintances and "lost friends" but it was only nice till the time I first landed on their page catching up on the lost time. But with time I remembered why initially I had chosen not to be in contact with them.
Even when there were no mobile phones I had kept in touch through letters with people I wanted to.
And still if they were lost adding them on FB didn't really make any difference! It was only when we crossed our paths on street or a familiar name came up in conversation with friends did we actually came in contact. The only difference was that we already knew that we had graduated and then when we got married. So the only fun of personally meeting friends after long time was also ruined as we already knew the gist of the years went by.
The most negative effect of social networking has been on my time and I take the liberty to say it has that effect on each of the regular users of social networking sites. You want proof? Check the date of last blog post I wrote. Yeah cause I was too busy laughing and applauding other FB posts, which by the way were copy and paste products mostly. Also the average number of books I read each year has gone to shameful level. So much for a person who ditched Chemistry book a night before Chemistry exam to complete a Sidney Sheldon mystery.
The simple life pleasure were lost in the wall posts, albums of people I hardly talk to and in pages which achieved nothing but were just another ways of passing time.
I finally did make that long pending move to delete my FB account. You want to be in touch with me? Call me. Too much? Whatsapp me! But that's all. You want to know what's happening in my life you better be in talking terms with me. I don't want to be just another name on a list and I surely don't want all my personal information readily available on a click for others who can't make an effort to buzz me once in a while.
Aren't we too social? A child born in Indian society is already pretty social. It has, apart from parents, uncles , aunts and uncle's aunt and aunt's uncle. Of course there are grandparents and more grandparents and infinite cousins from the family tree.
Once the baby is all done being a toddler, it starts to have friends from the 'play school' and then school, Further high school and then the college.
In all this process of growing up from school to college, there is a formation of 'family friends' where parents are friends and then their kids are friends with each other.
With so many people around and our inherited general social behaviour do we really need social networking! Social Networking seemed awesome once when I could catch with my long lost buds and carry on 'to be on contact' with long distance-d friends. But after a point it all seemed very unnatural. Personally I have always been a very social being. After a while on Facebook, I realized that although once it was nice to connect with old acquaintances and "lost friends" but it was only nice till the time I first landed on their page catching up on the lost time. But with time I remembered why initially I had chosen not to be in contact with them.
Even when there were no mobile phones I had kept in touch through letters with people I wanted to.
And still if they were lost adding them on FB didn't really make any difference! It was only when we crossed our paths on street or a familiar name came up in conversation with friends did we actually came in contact. The only difference was that we already knew that we had graduated and then when we got married. So the only fun of personally meeting friends after long time was also ruined as we already knew the gist of the years went by.
The most negative effect of social networking has been on my time and I take the liberty to say it has that effect on each of the regular users of social networking sites. You want proof? Check the date of last blog post I wrote. Yeah cause I was too busy laughing and applauding other FB posts, which by the way were copy and paste products mostly. Also the average number of books I read each year has gone to shameful level. So much for a person who ditched Chemistry book a night before Chemistry exam to complete a Sidney Sheldon mystery.
The simple life pleasure were lost in the wall posts, albums of people I hardly talk to and in pages which achieved nothing but were just another ways of passing time.
I finally did make that long pending move to delete my FB account. You want to be in touch with me? Call me. Too much? Whatsapp me! But that's all. You want to know what's happening in my life you better be in talking terms with me. I don't want to be just another name on a list and I surely don't want all my personal information readily available on a click for others who can't make an effort to buzz me once in a while.
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