Socially Blanked Out!

There are times when you want to write something and you don’t have a topic to write about…. but there is an urge to scribble up a few lines just for the sake of writing….. It’s not one of those times

There are times when you have a lot of information you can write about…. heaps and heaps of news pouring into your mind from all four corners of the world… and you are simply overwhelmed by this haystack of uncanny info…. trying to push yourself into creating opinions about the things people have already talked about dozens of times….. like if anyone in the world would really care what you think about anything important that has happened to which you have no relation at all…..It’s not one of those time either

On a lazy weekend when you skip you daily hectic routine of number crunching and boss pinching activities… you feel like doing nothing at all ( yes Bruno it’s something about your stupid monkey song)….. you open up your facebook and twitter and watch the world…. just silently observing each and every move they make……. like some foreign intelligence agency recording the lives of every person that can matter….and that too …… without any interrogation at all….People willingly posting themselves…… Digital slaves of a software that has been promoted as the Social Network…. and pretending to connect you with millions of known… slightly unknown…. and completely strange people….

And then there is twitter…. the real time software that compels you to think out loud… whether you are in an airplane flying off to San Francisco….or losing some weight on the toilet seat…. Yes people post everything… and then they wait….

Yes…. they wait….. they wait for someone to Like what they think…. of the hundreds and thousands of friends….they expect that someone would actually take out time to read the crappy posts and status updates and click on the small blue four alphabet button below it…. Giving them a false sense of appreciation… and sense of achievement…. and a sense of being liked by the world… a sense of being Accepted…………

Actually its the acceptance and pride that follows… that makes you cling on to that blue software screen everyday….. You don’t read newspaper that thoroughly but you do read the what other people have been upto…… wishing Birthdays and Congratulating here and there…. Commenting on pictures and videos…. and fake profile changes…. there’s just no end to it….

The other day i was talking to my cousin living abroad….. he told me that he hardly gets time to use any social network…. and i was like completely shocked to hear that??….. dude!! its like you’re saying that you don’t exist on the face of the earth! But yes its true…. People living the 9 to 5 lives in the US and European countries hardly spend time on social networks… Which makes me wonder that if this crap was actually created for the third worlders only?… I mean… i don’t know how meeting people face to face can ever be replaced….. there’s so much non verbal there is that cannot be said without a face to face conversation…. but then again supporters of social networks will pop up….. disagreeing with me….telling about creating mass appeals and revolutions that have been possible only because of this virtual connectivity…. It’s true… But then again… Every coin has two sides… and you can’t ignore the social atrocities that definitely outweigh the fringe benefits that have followed…. So think again before jumping into the social bandwagon…. Its not all fruits and flowers out there…..Nuff Said!