"Like" it or Not!

I am seriously amazed. The way the internet revolution brought so many changes in no time. Facebook, Gtalk, Orkut are the wonders which have paved their ways to our lives without any warnings. If not a red alert, at least an alert should have been issued!

I remember how writing a "testimonial" on orkut was the proof of true affection from someone. It meant so much, I had to bribe/ issue warnings to so many of my friends to write one for me! Those were the good old days when Orkut was the in thing and the madness was controlled to a large extent! Now that Orkut is passe, Facebook has taken over with fiercer effects!! 

Take for instance; I have people who are so addicted to Facebook that they can't stop uploading status message and then commenting and replying to the comments. Nothing wrong in it...what's really frightening is they are actually people sitting right next to each other in my office. They won't talk to each other because they are glued to the screens replying to each other's comments.

Facebook has recently come up with the concept of having Groups. Initially it was fun. But now I can imagine a gigantic machine somewhere and these groups being churned out of it every nano second. There is a group for everything and anything under the sun!!!

And then, people keep joining them...I don't know for what. 

• For instance this one girl joined the group "I hate Facebook groups with grammatical errors in their names" and then later on joined "I love wehn it rains in Mumbaie." (Ahem! 'Correct spelling OCD' over!)  

• This other person I knew joined " I still remember the first time we met...you're not the same anymore" "I don't miss you, but the person you used to be" and then joins " I love the times we spend together...just you and me!" (Madam, either you are dating a bunch of guys or you just suffer from multiple personality disorder! ) 

I have seen couples fighting with each other because they didn't change their status from "single" to "committed" on Facebook! Obviously when you finally find a person who can put up with you after you hitting on every guy and being rejected by all of them, you gotta show it to the world! How dare he not change his status? How will the world ever know??? 

Have to mention other "Couples" fighting on why the boyfriend didn't 'like' the girlfriend's status and the vice versa! "Look how many people liked my status...just you didn't...you don't love me!" I am telling you love stories are getting difficult to sustain if you both are active on Facebook!

Talking about status messages, people bombard your Facebook walls at times. Yeah...now what the hell is that about? They need to update the world about everything and anything they do! "In the kitchen...trying to make tea" to "Watching TV" etc. And to all such messages, there will be people just casually commenting things like: "All the best" and "Enjoy" and "Have fun". They aren't thinking, they just comment finding it to be their moral duty to do so. After all it needs motivation from your acquaintances to accomplish deeds like that! Why the hell don't these people also update as to when are they going to the loo? I am sure they will get all the "All the best", "Enjoy", "HAVE FUN" comments out there too. I would also like to check how many click on the "Like" link there!$%!#%&(#*$

The craze is going out of hands. IT department of companies are actually demanding security arranged for themselves because they run the perpetual risk of being beaten up. Blocking Facebook in office is their job after all and nothing gets employees more irritated than this. The day it was banned in my office, a day long silence was observed! We observe 2 minutes silence when a national leader dies!

I am not talking for everyone here. But I am sure...most of our worlds have entered Facebook. We have to get Facebook savvy if we want to live a normal life. After all, if you ain't on Facebook, you can't expect people to wish you on your birthday. Your closest friends these days rely on Facebook birthday updates and don't bother to remember it themselves. You can't expect people to know what are you upto because your friends keep a tab on your life through your wall posts!

If you’re still not a part of this crazy world…get going people! It's the digital era after all. If you are not on Facebook, you're not in!