Only 3 days of non activity on Facebook and some of my friends (To be precise online friends) started wondering if everything is fine with me..by God's grace all is well with me. It feels good to know that someone 1000 km apart is worried for you. But the thing to be noticed is that suddenly your online existence has become important ..much more than you could think of. In my case i have been purposely trying to avoid Facebook for last few days because of some personal reasons.
Anyways i have never been a big fan of Facebook. To me it always seemed a time wasting affair and then there are privacy issues. A few of my Facebook addict friends might find this not to their liking but this is what i have always felt. Receiving friend requests from strangers is what i hate most but sometimes a friend request from someone familiar is much bigger problem. Denying my Didi's request was enough for her to start imagining me chatting with girls . You receive a friend request from one of your younger cousins and you don't know what to do now, obviously you can't deny him but you certainly don't want him to read conversations on your wall.
I am not saying its the worst thing in the world, it has definitely got good things to talk about. Chatting and private messaging are awesome facilities though it can't replace the intimate conversations we can have over a call. Because of Facebook i have got back in touch with some of my long lost classmates and friends, in fact it was only because of Facebook i was able to talk to my first( & the only one till date) love and get in touch with her, unfortunately things have not been so smooth but its a different story will get into it in some other post.....so what i am trying to say is that facebook is good but not THAT good, at least not to the level of addiction. Its fine if you log in once ( ok make it 4-5 times, sounds more practical ) but certainly not fine if you keep checking your notifications every 10 minutes.
On the other hand i have always had good things to say when it comes to internet, well almost everyone has got good things to say about it. Now a days it has become such an integral part of life that its almost impossible to imagine a day without it. I have to admit that i am on primary stages of net addiction and thats too only because of my busy schedule i don't get much time for net surfing otherwise online world is just too inviting. Apart from random surfing because of my love for cricket visiting cricinfo has become a ritual, listverse and howstuffworks are too informative to be ignored, once in a while yahoo also comes up with good articles then there is this amazing world of blogs.
Internet is not only entertaining and informative, it is also useful on day to day basis. I am not a fan of online shopping but still i have been a regular customer of indiaplaza (for books) and letsbuy.com (for electronics). Paying internet bills, digital tv recharging, credit card bills online are some of the things that my Dad has left up to me and more often than not i get requests ( read it "order" :p ) from Didi to top up her mobile balance. Getting requests from friends at unusual times of the day for balance top ups for their girlfriend's mobile is one thing i have become habitual of, and if any of you are reading this, trust me i don't mind it all in fact i really like the fact that i am able to help you.
Oh gosh !!!!! had to wish my friend, he turns 22 today ( chronologically 22, am not sure intellectually he is 22 yet :P) ...have to leave this post unfinished , you just can't delay anything when it comes to friends, more so when its his birthday...kyunki har ek friend zaroori hota hai ( ok ok i know you must have got bored of this line but haven't got time to think for some other line)
Anyways i have never been a big fan of Facebook. To me it always seemed a time wasting affair and then there are privacy issues. A few of my Facebook addict friends might find this not to their liking but this is what i have always felt. Receiving friend requests from strangers is what i hate most but sometimes a friend request from someone familiar is much bigger problem. Denying my Didi's request was enough for her to start imagining me chatting with girls . You receive a friend request from one of your younger cousins and you don't know what to do now, obviously you can't deny him but you certainly don't want him to read conversations on your wall.
I am not saying its the worst thing in the world, it has definitely got good things to talk about. Chatting and private messaging are awesome facilities though it can't replace the intimate conversations we can have over a call. Because of Facebook i have got back in touch with some of my long lost classmates and friends, in fact it was only because of Facebook i was able to talk to my first( & the only one till date) love and get in touch with her, unfortunately things have not been so smooth but its a different story will get into it in some other post.....so what i am trying to say is that facebook is good but not THAT good, at least not to the level of addiction. Its fine if you log in once ( ok make it 4-5 times, sounds more practical ) but certainly not fine if you keep checking your notifications every 10 minutes.
On the other hand i have always had good things to say when it comes to internet, well almost everyone has got good things to say about it. Now a days it has become such an integral part of life that its almost impossible to imagine a day without it. I have to admit that i am on primary stages of net addiction and thats too only because of my busy schedule i don't get much time for net surfing otherwise online world is just too inviting. Apart from random surfing because of my love for cricket visiting cricinfo has become a ritual, listverse and howstuffworks are too informative to be ignored, once in a while yahoo also comes up with good articles then there is this amazing world of blogs.
Internet is not only entertaining and informative, it is also useful on day to day basis. I am not a fan of online shopping but still i have been a regular customer of indiaplaza (for books) and letsbuy.com (for electronics). Paying internet bills, digital tv recharging, credit card bills online are some of the things that my Dad has left up to me and more often than not i get requests ( read it "order" :p ) from Didi to top up her mobile balance. Getting requests from friends at unusual times of the day for balance top ups for their girlfriend's mobile is one thing i have become habitual of, and if any of you are reading this, trust me i don't mind it all in fact i really like the fact that i am able to help you.
Oh gosh !!!!! had to wish my friend, he turns 22 today ( chronologically 22, am not sure intellectually he is 22 yet :P) ...have to leave this post unfinished , you just can't delay anything when it comes to friends, more so when its his birthday...kyunki har ek friend zaroori hota hai ( ok ok i know you must have got bored of this line but haven't got time to think for some other line)
