Sunday, November 8, 2009

Social Networking Notworking!!!


There's a Bong song "PRITHIVI" by James whose line goes like this- "Prithibita naaki chhoto hotey hotey, satellite aar cabler haathey,drawing roomey rakha boka bakshotey bondi" which simply means that the world is shrinking itself into the hands of satellite channels and we lay surrendered in front of the idiot box in our drawing rooms. That was few years ago prior to the advent of the in thing known as "Social Networking" (from here on referred to as BLACK HOLE) . Somehow don't you guys think "BLACK HOLES" have added to this. People, I hardly see these days going out in the open. I remember there were times when we friends used to wait eagerly for holidays to have a one on one with another team in the game of cricket. I see those days vanish to oblivion. We the young blood (including moah!), restrict ourselves in front of the LCD monitor only to loiter around in the cyberspace hopping from one "BLACK HOLE" to another. I guess its sort of a peer pressure too. If your footprint is not there in one or most of those famous "BLACKHOLES" you are not cool I guess. But do we realise that sometimes we may be revealing too much  information in these "BLACK HOLES" which can put our lives into jeopardy if fallen into wrong hands. Too much of negativity in air!!! Lets nullify the effect and introspect about the goody goody sides to these "here to stay" "BLACK HOLES". First, and the obvious friends keep in touch with one another and are in constant update of what's happening in each other's lives. Second, any information you want, you just have to put a message into the noticeboards of these "BLACK HOLES" and you get instant answers, faster if you are a damsel, you know what I mean... Well no matter what, hits to these "BLACK HOLES" are increasing exponentially [but of course slower than India's population growth ;-)]. Imagine a world where we stop having conversations one on one and know each other only through tweets and status messages and scraps!!! Oh Crap!

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