Long before Internet invaded our lives, how did we interact with friends and family? First, we used our land line phones. It went on till our parents started to get outrageous bills. So land line life was short lived. So we got adapted to traditional methods. Meeting friends at their houses, writing letters to them if they were far, exchanging greetings, hanging out etc. Things were lot better back then. We actually interacted with the people. God gave us mouth to talk and let our feelings out, not just to curse the F word when something unexpected happens :).
Let's skip the internet thing for now. Lets talk about Facebook. Designing( I'd say invention) facebook was perhaps the best thing netizens could have hoped for. Maintaining friends, interacting with them was taken to a whole new level. You can play games with them, upload images rather than sending photos through postal. Everyone started taking things for granted. You don't talk to people who you see frequently in your life but you don't forget to add them on facebook, that poor guy thinks he just got a friend.Wrong, he is neither a real friend nor false friend, you are just an increment to the friend counter. How does that feel? after adding to list, if the person sees his "increment" somewhere, he won't even bother to smile. that is pathetic.
Facebook is a great way to pass time. i have absolutely nothing to say against that.However, if you have annoying relatives, and they post embarrassing picture of yourself tagged it, you can expect many ROFL's from your friends. Your friends come to know about you are tagged in a photo. The real problem comes when you go to school or work next day. I bet you can see your friends giggling as you walk by and some ask you about the photo too. There is nothing more frustrating than being made a laughing stock publicly.
The greetings and gifts, They always made feel important and better. I appreciate sending "virtual" gifts and cards. But don't you think if one gets REAL card and gifts, he'll be more happy?. After all a small Rs.50 worth pencil stand has more value than virtual diamond rings or a BMW ( I would have appreciated that too ;) ). My friends staying in hostel do celebrate birthdays. Forget gifts and cards, even wishes are now in form on posts or scraps. Where are the days when you give birthday bumps till the person cries for mercy? where's the spirit of spending whole day just to arrange a surprise party for your pal. I agree there is nothing wrong celebrating birthday on facebook. But celebrating it in real is a lot different and fun
and bond of friendship strengthens up.
Let's skip the internet thing for now. Lets talk about Facebook. Designing( I'd say invention) facebook was perhaps the best thing netizens could have hoped for. Maintaining friends, interacting with them was taken to a whole new level. You can play games with them, upload images rather than sending photos through postal. Everyone started taking things for granted. You don't talk to people who you see frequently in your life but you don't forget to add them on facebook, that poor guy thinks he just got a friend.Wrong, he is neither a real friend nor false friend, you are just an increment to the friend counter. How does that feel? after adding to list, if the person sees his "increment" somewhere, he won't even bother to smile. that is pathetic.
Facebook is a great way to pass time. i have absolutely nothing to say against that.However, if you have annoying relatives, and they post embarrassing picture of yourself tagged it, you can expect many ROFL's from your friends. Your friends come to know about you are tagged in a photo. The real problem comes when you go to school or work next day. I bet you can see your friends giggling as you walk by and some ask you about the photo too. There is nothing more frustrating than being made a laughing stock publicly.
The greetings and gifts, They always made feel important and better. I appreciate sending "virtual" gifts and cards. But don't you think if one gets REAL card and gifts, he'll be more happy?. After all a small Rs.50 worth pencil stand has more value than virtual diamond rings or a BMW ( I would have appreciated that too ;) ). My friends staying in hostel do celebrate birthdays. Forget gifts and cards, even wishes are now in form on posts or scraps. Where are the days when you give birthday bumps till the person cries for mercy? where's the spirit of spending whole day just to arrange a surprise party for your pal. I agree there is nothing wrong celebrating birthday on facebook. But celebrating it in real is a lot different and fun
and bond of friendship strengthens up.
How can you forget the games. The central focus of facebook lies in the hands of these social games. Now it's come so common that your neighbouring kid does not have time to play some sports with you but is free enough to send you the request to be his neighbour in Farmville. I myself used to play farmville for hours together, waiting for the silly plants to grow up. Finally one day i was fed up and i quit. The issue is not only about farmville. Also including other ____ville games, Mafia wars, world wars, vampire wars and other wars which are in more number than actual wars in real world. I find them like chewing gum, exciting and fun at first, finally i get rid of it. From growing carrots to robbing banks, i have done it all in FB.
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