I'm a huge fan of the idea of social networking, after all man is a social animal, but I decided to play the devil's advocate in this. If you find animals more social than humans are, I'll concur with you in a different post, but this post is only about humans.When I created my Orkut account many years back, I looked at it with awe as well as with fear. With awe because it let me connect with my oldest school friends with whom I would've never got a chance to connect otherwise. With fear because it was making more of private information, public. But evidently not being able to meet the needs of gen-Next, Orkut began to rust. People slowly bid adieu to Orkut and started embracing Facebook, with the hope that everyone would migrate to Facebook someday.
Facebook inspired more awe as well as more fear and clearly went on to become the social networking leader. But I'm hearing about Ice Age again. Is it time for one more migration? Is it time to ditch all our old friends once more and continue with the hope that there will be light at the end of the tunnel? Oh yes, if change is for good, let it happen.
I clicked on a Google+ invite, but thanks to my office network that blocks all social networking sites, I was not able to proceed. If my office thinks that these sites will make me less productive and less useful, have I made myself less productive and less useful over the last few years? If the little time I'd to do anything else was gone on the internet doing the so called less productive and less useful things, did I make less out of my existence these years? If I just did what gave me momentary happiness without thinking all of this, did I really make worth of my Creation these years?
To Plus to not to? I'll postpone the decision till I get more enlightenment.
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ReplyDeleteI so relate to every single sentence you've talked about, coz I've exactly the same thoughts from line 1 to 21, myself. And yes, To Plus or not to, is the question of day :-) I've postponed the decision as well. Or may be one fine day, just like a few years back, I'll bid adieu to everything and everyone and just shrink back into my own cozy shell :-)
I don't know .... But that's how life is, you can't know everything ... Not all questions have answers, like the one about your Creation which you're wondering about. But there's always something called Faith. So, believe that you've done your best and strive, to do your best, always. And that includes experiencing momentary happiness and also being able to forgive yourself when you haven't :-)
Have I just talked as if I know everything? No, I don't know anything :-) To plus or not to? I still don't know and it doesn't matter :-)
I smiled six times in that comment and that just meant "Welcome back" :-)
ReplyDeleteI sat down and closed all my social networking accounts (including plus) just 10 minutes back, sent an email informing so to our srk alias, and then just randomly decided "let me check narens blog, its been a while .." and I see this post ! Wierd coincidence :)
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Gopa, whether this means "Wise men think alike" or "Fools seldom differ", time will tell :)
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