Earlier whenever I opened the internet I always used to go to yahoo mail or gmail but the increasing trend of social networking sites has changed that routine to facebook and twitter. Its amazing how people are addicted to it so badly……..i mean its good for connecting with friends but what’s the use of adding people in your friends list whom u have just met once in your lifetime. The moment u meet someone somewhere at a social gathering or some party after 20 min of conversation the inevitable next question is are u on facebook??.....what the heck u r not gonna meet that guy again ever and still he need u in your friends list just to brag about it in front of others that my friends list is longer than yours……..i just don’t understand such people. Sharing anything new in life and something good on status updates is fine but when people put status updates like,”m going to pee will be back in 5 min”……..dude are u in the middle of an AGM that u need to inform others the time u need to take that bathroom break. People keep their best pics on the profile photo, the pic which shows them in their best looks and I know people who go through a lot of pain to just get that perfect pic so that others can comment. The most funny thing about facebook is that u don’t meet your neighbors in the building but u will find them online on your fb chat list……there’s just one wall separating u but still u need to chat on fb. And acquaintances who meet us accidently on chats have this typical tendency after 5 min of formal hi how are u, to type in “gotta go dude sorry catch u later”………..i get it u need to chat with other people and that’s just an excuse to stop chatting…….FB has its own best points, in a family like mine where its big enough to populate an restaurant v walk into, it helps to know whats new with the other cousins in the family as they regularly update their status.
Twitter is just madness like facebook, the only difference being that u can add celebs in your list of following. I have a twitter account and often use it to see what my fav. stars are upto, like I knew that SRK was on a family holiday recently, Piggy chops returned to Mumbai after shooting for two months in coorg etc. U can find all celebs on twitter from Barrack Obama to Chunky Pandey (superstar of all time)……….twitter has bridged the gap between fans and their idols, thats good as v get to know things before the papers can publish them, and if u get lucky there is a chance that your idol may also reply to you on the site. But there are two things I find pathetic about it:-
1. Why is there a breaking news when big celebs get their accounts made, when Big B made his account there was enough coverage let alone news even people like Karan Johar twitting,” roll the drums for Big b”, similar situation when sachin joined in he recorded highest no. of followers in a hour ( he is really synonymous to GOD and doesn’t tweet like crazy ), now when aamir joined it on Big Bs request another top story same was the case when bipasha joined. There are so many things to cover to be shown in the news I just don’t get it why these things have to be breaking news. People who are on twitter will already know about it the rest are just oldies who want to do better things in life than following celebs on social networking sites.
2. The other irritating thing I find is when celebs tweet like crazy and stupid, specially people like Celina Jaitely and Mallika sherawat, twitter guys should put in a tweet limit for such people for eg only 30 tweets in a month. And sometimes they forget that they are celebs and chat normally on twitter and when its breaking news all they have to say is “no comments “or “people should respect others personal life”……..if u want that u shouldn’t have been on twitter in the first place.
As I always believe that nothing’s permanent, even this phase of facebook and twitter will pass out as orkut did.
P.S.:- I love following Priyanka Chopra on twitter as she’s regular with uploading pics which gives fans like me a chance to take a look at what she’s upto.
