Do you know why facebook is that popular?
I don’t . Im on a mission to figure out. But somewhere I end
up at a brick wall. See, on one hand they say Facebook and its likes was the
reason the Middle East turmoil grew into a revolution, but on the other hand I watch
a guy update “BRB, need to pee”
Yeah yeah I know. It’s easy for films to be promoted, for
events to be organised, for discussions to be held. I also know it’s the first
place you need to visit when you switch on the lap, the first place to update
your status after ditching your girl, and the first place to say “Im vettiiiii(
Tamil slang for Im not doing anything interesting).
First things first, what is this POKE
You poke me? And then I poke you back. And from that I infer
that you are a living person something like CAPTCHA?
Everyone’s got this new Facebook. There was a new Facebook
previously that everyone hated because no one likes change. But now a new Facebook
has come with the “Timeline” just like in twitter. In user interface design, a subject which has
no future in Anna University syllabus we learnt a principle KISS- Keep It
Simple Stupid. I see homepage and I’m thinking what do I look at? Newsfeed,
ticker, chat, lists, groups or 23 lame Stories.
Facebook and me have this big bond.
I have awesome friends. We go a long way back in school. First
we fought a lot. Physical, verbal, virtual, you name it and we did it. Then in
one major twist of fate, cupid no wait cupid’s partner Friendid struck us and
we became like best buds. Pictures, hangouts making up for all the lost love.
There was even a time when we used to go every single day to the beach ( not
me, I would catch pneumonia ) just to meet up.
That was what like years ago. Then one fine blue day, a
friend posted a single update about a stupid little silly thing regarding a man
who might have no relevance in our lives in a few years from now, a man stupid
enough to hold the whole country at ransom about passing an Anti- corruption bill
while thousands of people are dying from hunger. So this other friend comes
along acting like the old man’s prodigy and doesn’t approve of it. After a hundred
comments of “***** you shut up “ and “bastard, your life sucks more than mine ”
,all hell breaks loose.
We used to play this ‘kaa and palam’ thing.’Kaa’ would mean
showing up a thumbs-up sign signifying cutting off friendship whereas ‘palam’
signified entwining your pinkie finger with the concerned person meaning that you are friends again. This fight
reminded me of those days. He would not speak to her because He didn’t. Another
‘he’ would secretly speak to her for old friendship’s sake. Another he would
try to reason with everyone and say stop behaving like idiots.
Then there’s this thing called EGO, it’s a pretty big thing
around here. A simple sorry could have done it , but no .What’s life if you don’t
complicate things ,right?
There are 3 kinds of situations when you get involved in a
fight. First, you are wholly/partially at fault but too stubborn to apologize. Second,
you aren’t at fault but you prefer waiting for the other party to come talk
first. It’s their mistake after all. Third, you care two whoops about what’s happened.
Just go talk. Respond if you like or just get on with it.
We’ve all been in that place.
Current situation: I think I’m surrounded by Benjamin Button’s
clan. I could have been a little influenced by this behaviour now that I’m actually
dedicating a post to this insignificant topic. Coming back to the fight, we
played the Cold War epically for 4 months. Some people were too angry to think
straight, some didn’t know there was a problem in the first place and some didn’t
fucking care. I don’t blame you, I wouldn’t too.
Things are fine now. At least on the outside. Now I’m going
to get all mature and say “Never judge a book by its cover”. By fine I mean, my
friends still put up pictures to show that they can have fun without “them”.
TIT.
TAT would entail putting up
pictures just to show they can too.
I started off writing this post wanting to abuse Zuckerberg
for coming up with the Facebook but now that I see , its not his fault at all. He’s
just smart enough to cash on the dumbing down of people. Im going to be hopelessly
optimistic and wait for the day when people stop obsessing over comments or how
many Likes their DP gets and just MOVE ON.
