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I am sitting in training and it’s not going well…it’s not going anywhere actually. They say that 90% of success lies is just showing up, going through this training I believe it applies even to miseries. I roll my eyes around to see what my partners in whine are up to. There where three of them, my Fuss-ka-tears. One of them as I saw was involved in deep thought with his eyes closed; the fact that his specs were shaded helped his nirvanic cause. The other two were deeply involved in discussion intently staring in to one of their laptop. “Wow these guys are workaholics” I thought as I approached to imbibe some gyan from them.

“Should I accept this or not?” said one of them.

“Hmm I don’t know. Look at the profile”

I knew they were planning to shift jobs; probably one of them had made some headway. I was curious.

“I am not sure…need to consider future too u see”

“Ya, but you will always have options” said the other as I was drawn closer.

“Ok I will accept” said he as I was finally able to see the monitor.

His single click had brought about the change, a change of gamut that created ripples heard across all his friends and family.

He had a new friend on Facebook.

I have been active in Facebook for sometime now. It’s weird to call oneself ‘active’ cause you indulge in it basically when you are too lazy to work or absolutely jobless. Anyway, I would like to confess though initially hesitant, that this craze has caught up to me. Looking back at my social networking history, I would like to believe that I have grown with time. Orkut, as many guys would agree, was the ice breaker to the. Many of us found the comfort in its undisclosed scraps, unnoticed profiles and unexplored friends. Facebook was a shocker. Everything out there was open to all & almost on your face. From migraine to marriage, jobs to jalebis, tics to politics…everything was posted out for everyone to see. I was left wondering why in the world would people open up like that. But then I realized this was a natural progression caused by raising the crucial question,” How far are you willing to go with it?” or in this case of social network “How socialistic are you?”. This was a challenge thrown on to the world and many accepted it. Being a challenge, it does have many concerns; firstly whom do you accept as friends. Now the key hurdle here is to strike a balance between the fake prestige you have in increasing your friend count with actually giving these guys a peek into your social life, well not just a peek but by allowing them to post you are giving them a say on your life & thoughts too. Can you deal with that?
Second concern, what you post. Most of us live compartmentalized lives. Keeping different set of friends away from each other, keeping friends away from your colleagues, colleagues away from your relatives, and relatives away from…well… everyone. Each compartment is filled different view of you and a different take on what you do or say. A wall post because of its accessibility and its nature to announce its presence to all carries the risk of torpedoing down these compartments to a greasy unsalvageable mess. The comments which follow the posts wont help much either. Say if you are a shy sober conservative & intelligent guy living in one compartment and imagine there is a wild below the belt post coming out of the rebellious side of yours…do you hear that…KABOOOM. Add to that you receive a comment digging up a few graves…can you see the mushroom cloud now. Third and final concerns are the games you play & societies you join. Rajesh life partner is…Ramesh’s kissing score is… Richa likes “Wild Rave Parties Club”…should I say anything more. I have just listed a few concerns but of course I am a beginner and I am sure the ardent users may suggest many more. But with just these many concerns I find myself treading carefully as if tip toeing through a mine field. It’s an exhaustive process…fun…but exhaustive. This however doesn’t mean I am going to stop facebooking (if there is such a word), neither should any person part of this forum. It’s our chartered duty to do so for our constitution has said that India is a socialistic democratic country and we have to uphold that.
Jai hind

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